Lee's Migrant Worker Remarks Fall Short of Embracing Korea's Growing Diversity
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Criticism from political circles and civil society is spreading due to President Lee Jae-myung's remarks regarding the economic contribution of foreign workers. Although the President explained that his comments were comparative remarks made while reviewing support measures for hiring domestic workers, labor unions stated that the practical economic contribution of migrant workers and the improvement of their poor working conditions should be pr…
Lee's migrant worker remarks fall short of embracing Korea's growing diversity
President Lee Jae Myung said Tuesday that migrant workers don’t “contribute much to the national economy” because they send their earnings home. When criticism followed his remarks at a Cabinet meeting, he focused on a word missing from a newspaper headline — “much.” But restoring that word does little to address the larger question of whether the president sees foreign workers as members of Korea's increasingly diverse society or mainly judges …
President Lee Jae-myung is causing a stir by stating, while ordering measures to resolve the labor shortage in the agricultural sector, that "foreign workers are not of much help to the national economy." Migrant worker organizations argue that the remarks demonstrate a lack of proper understanding of reality.
President Lee Jae-myung has sparked controversy by stating that "foreign workers are not of much help to the national economy" while ordering measures to resolve the labor shortage in the agricultural sector. Migrant worker organizations criticized the remarks as "hate speech that ignores reality." During a Cabinet meeting presided over by the Blue House on the 27th, President Lee [addressed] Song Mi-ryeong, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and…
President Lee Jae-myung has sparked controversy by stating that "foreign workers are not of much help to the national economy" while ordering measures to resolve the labor shortage in the agricultural sector. Migrant worker organizations criticized the remark as "hate speech that ignores reality." During a Cabinet meeting held at the Blue House on the 27th, President Lee told Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Song Mi-ryeong, "From …
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