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Yesterday's Hankyoreh reported the following: Despite the subzero temperatures, 60 or so migrant workers came out to Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Plaza on the afternoon of Dec. 16 to mark International Migrants Day. On Sunday, groups including the Migrants’ Trade Union and Migrants Act launched an event called “Nationwide Joint Action on International Migrants Day” on the stairs leading up to the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul. “Korean society traps migrant workers in the legal categories of ‘foreign workers’ and ‘illegal aliens’ and refuses to recognize them as members of society. Migrants are humans and workers, just like everyone else. Migrant workers should also be guaranteed legitimate rights as members of society,” demonstrators said...(more you can read here)

Related article:
☞ ‘Migrant workers are not consumables, we are humans!’ (K. Herald, 12.17)
 

Related reports in Korean:
☞ 세계 이주노동자의 날 “불법인 사람은 없다” (미디어오늘, 12.16)
☞ "이주노동자는 다른 나라에서 온 노동‘력’이 아닌 노동‘자’" (노동과 세계, 12.16)
☞ ‘외노자’ 아닌 똑같은 노동자, 사람입니다 (참세상, 12.16)
☞ “한국도 이주노동자 원하고, 나도 일하고 싶어…고용허가제 폐지해야” (뉴스민, 12.16)