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Seasonal worker program needs fundamental reform (KOR)

Alleged abuses in Jeongeup underscore calls to shift oversight, end broker exploitation and guarantee migrant workers' rights.

2026.10.6

Seasonal worker program needs fundamental reform

Alleged abuses in Jeongeup underscore calls to shift oversight, end broker exploitation and guarantee migrant workers' rights.

2026.10.5

Why they marched through the rain in full-body prostration (KOR)

A Vietnamese-born activist urges Korea to move beyond crackdowns and create a legal pathway for long-term undocumented migrants.

2026.6.22

Why they marched through the rain in full-body prostration

A Vietnamese-born activist urges Korea to move beyond crackdowns and create a legal pathway for long-term undocumented migrants.

2026.6.21

Factory owner sent to prosecution over alleged assault of foreign workers

Incheon textile factory owner, who was caught on video assaulting an employee in April, is accused of beating four Bangladeshi workers over a three-year period.

2026.6.9

Migrant workers are seen on their way to work in Ansan, Gyeonggi on July 29, 2025. Ansan has the highest population of immigrants in Korea, with 108,000 immigrants in the city as of 2023. [JOONGANG ILBO]

One-fourth of migrants say they have experienced discrimination, according to new survey

Migrant workers in Korea remain vulnerable to workplace harassment and discrimination, trapped in a system that discourages complaints and ties their legal status to their employers, according to case studies and a new survey.

2026.1.28

The Gyeonggi Provincial Government Complex in Suwon, Gyeonggi [GYEONGGI PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT]

Gyeonggi passes local laws to ban racial discrimination, ensure refugee rights, recognize undocumented children

Gyeonggi has enacted three local ordinances that ban racial discrimination, institutionally guarantee the rights of refugee applicants and help undocumented children of foreign nationals — a first for any government in Korea, central or local.

2025.9.22

Foreign workers arrive in Korea at Incheon International Airport in July 2022. [NEWS1]

Most foreigners in Korea earn 2 to 3 million won a month, report says

More than half of foreign wage workers in Korea earned between 2 million and 3 million won per month last year, according to Statistics Korea.

2024.4.17

Gov't to issue record number of work visas amid labor shortage

The government will issue a record-high 165,000 E-9 visas for migrant workers next year, a 37.5 percent on-year increase. E-9 visa holders will be allowed to work in restaurant, which is restricted to holders of H-2 visas issued to ethnic Koreans.

2023.11.27

Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon, left, and North Jeolla Govenor Kim Kwan-young celebrates an agreement on cooperating on innovative immigration policies on Monday at the local government's office in Jeonju. [NORTH JEOLLA GOVERNMENT]

North Jeolla chosen as testing ground for innovative immigration policies

The Justice Ministry and the North Jeolla government signed an agreement on Monday to cooperate on foreign and immigration policies.

2023.10.30

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