Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Real Reality]

Joerg Baruth, a pastor, said, "It's gotten much better than it was seven years ago, but [Koreans] still need to treat foreign workers better in the future." He said, "Koreans must treat their foreign workers humanely and improve Koreans' image before it's too late."

Baruth came to Seoul in February 1997, along with his wife and three children. His most painful memory occurred soon after he arrived. "About two years after we arrived in Korea, my children were begging us to go back to Germany every day. This was because the Korean children where treating them with contempt, throwing stones at their heads and spitting in their faces." He was barely able to convince his children, he said, by telling them, "Even in Germany, there are foreigners who are humiliated by extreme right-wing white supremacists."

Baruth said, "I can't understand how the Korean government makes foreign laborers do difficult work based on Korea's economic needs while refusing to protect them"

Baruth has spent the last seven years performing English-language church services for foreign workers and counseling foreign workers in prison. Of the countless foreign workers he has met, 60 percent have appealed to him to help with late wages. He said, "If all these workers are being denied their wages despite doing only back-breaking work..."
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200403/200403290020.html

Is this child abuse? To knowingly put, and continue to put, your children in a situation where they can be discriminated against, is this good parenting?

How can the Korean government make foreign laborers do difficult work based on Korea's economic needs while refusing to protect them?

[Real Reality]

Would you raise your children in this situation?

[Corporal]

Are you trolling?

[gomurr]

My situation has been different. Koreans won't leave my kid alone. They alsways want to touch him and have on occasion tried to take him away from my wife and I to show their friends. My son turns 2 this week and has gotten into the habit of screaming at Koreans if they pay too much attention to him especially in large crowds. He doesn't want to be bothered.

[Real Reality]

Corporal wrote,
Are you trolling?
No.

This issue was covered somewhat before. However, it seems Joerg Baruth may have had an opportunity to return to Germany but did not. Is his wife Korean? If he could have returned to Germany, then should he have returned in order to care for his children?

Also, how can the Korean government make foreign laborers do difficult work based on Korea's economic needs while refusing to protect them? Should not the international community care about this?

[ryleeys]

While I usually take what Amnesty International says with a grain of salt (as I do not view capital punishment as a human rights violation), does anyone know what AI's official stance on South Korea is? What are their issues with Korea?

[Mr. Pink]

Who cares?

[little mixed girl]

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[darrin312]

[little mixed girl]

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[khyber]

http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-kor/index
korea's got four pages

http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-aus/index
oz, the bastion of hate

http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-mwi/index
Malawi, soutern Africa

http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-zmb/index
Zambia? ARg you evil...how could you do that to people!?MQRWPG A

[weatherman]