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Korea Times(8.19) reported the following: If North Korea were allowed to send workers to the South, 67 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs) here are willing to replace foreigners(i.e. migrant workers!!) with North Koreans, a survey showed on Sunday. The main reason was "communication difficulty"(68 percent) followed by "cultural differences"(15 percent). Fourteen percent of respondents said North Korean workers would be "more productive" than foreigners. The Korea Social Research Center conducted the survey from July 3 to 20. Leaders or senior executives of 600 SMEs responded.
Almost the same I predicted already 15 years ago in conversations with KCTU and other activists, interested/involved in the struggle of migrant workers in S. Korea...
Yesterday's Korea Herald reported the following: With some 500 Yemeni nationals seeking asylum on Jeju Island, many in South Korea say the country is facing its first “refugee crisis.” Indeed, the influx of the refugees from Yemen has triggered a fierce backlash among Koreans against immigration rules of Jeju Island, where, unlike the rest of South Korea, most foreign passport-holders can stay for a month without a visa. Many of those who oppose the visa-waiver program say Yemenis will only “create problems” in Korea, especially against local women because “they are Muslims.” As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 430,000 Koreans have signed an online petition(*) asking the presidential office to deport Yemeni asylum seekers and revise current immigration laws to scrap Jeju’s current visa waiver program. A protest march is set for Saturday to press the government to proceed with the deportation of the existing refugees in the country...
Hundreds of people are expected to gather in central Seoul on June 30 in protest against the Jeju Provincial Government's refugee-friendly policy. The move comes after 380,000 people signed a petition against the visa-waiver program, which allows foreigners to stay on Jeju Island for a month. "Politicians are reluctant to respond to the clear voice of the majority of people here and the media also supports refugees. It's time to go out into the street and make our voice heard," a rally organizer said on a blog post. Many of the 15,000 people who left comments there said they would join the protest...(Korea Times, 6.24)
Is there any public resistance against the increasing racist movement in S. Korea? Not really! For example: Only about 340 people are 'interested' and some 37 want to join(?) a counter-protest(난민 반대 반대 집회), slated for the same time, just few meters away from the planned anti-refugee rally...
* As of today about 528,411 (possibly stupid)Koreans have signed the online petition!!
Today's Asia Times(HK) wrote: While media pundits in the West were skeptical and even cynical of the aspirational declaration signed between the two leaders – who were until recently adversaries exchanging barbs and threats of war – opinions in Asia, including those of world leaders in the region, generally welcomed and praised the unprecedented détente...(more you can read here)
And S. Korea and its media is being no exception...
President Moon Jae-in on expressed his gratitude to U.S. President Donald Trump, saying his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has paved the way for world peace...(Yonhap, 6.12) KCTU issued today a press release, titled The NK-US summit opened an irreversible era of peace on the Korean Peninsula. Today's conservative JoongAng Ilbo, under the titel A new chapter begins reported unusual impartial and cautiously optimistic about yesterday's summit...
Other S. Korean newspapers are simply celebrating the summit...
☞ Kim and Trump take first steps toward great change... (Hankyoreh, 6.13)
☞ Kim Jong-un and Trump Begin a March Toward Peace (Kyunghyang Shinmun, 6.13)
Well, while almost everyone seems to be "happy"(^^), or at least cautiously optimistic about yesterday's (NK-US)summit in Singapore... S. Korea's (conservative/bourgeois-reactionary)Chosun Ilbo was spitting mad: Kim Jong-un Got Everything He Wanted from Summit with Trump
Well, that's just a supplement to my yesterday's contribution, regarding Han Sang-gyun's release from prison...
There're at least 10 domestic media in S. Korea, published in English. But only the (bourgeois-conservative/reactionary)JoongAng Ilbo mentioned the topic...
...and the "progressive"(according to Wikipedia)Hankyoreh reported more detailed ☞ Celebrated labor leader released from prison.
PS. And how about KCTU's (English)media outlet?? Just check it out...(^^)
No comment...(^^)
Source: DailyNK(3.15. 13:00 KST)
PS. The same source - DailyNK - only few hours later...
Today's JoongAng Ilbo: Kim Jong-un will become the first North Korean leader to cross the border and visit the South since the Korean War broke out in 1950, as Seoul and Pyongyang agreed to hold a summit in April on the southern side of the truce village of Panmunjom...(more you can read here)
Related article:
☞ Inter-Korean summit to take place at Panmunjeom... (Hankyoreh, 3.08)
[2.09~11] North-South "Honeymoon'(in Pyeongchang and Seoul). Press review by NK's Rodong Sinmun(2.10~12)...
PS. In three days - from last Friday afternoon until y'day evening/night - (SK's president)Moon Jae-in met (at least offically^^)four times Kim Yo-jong, the little sister of Kim Jong-un(aka NK's dictator)! Between Friday afternoon and Sunday evening/night, according to the S. Korean media, Moon spent (at least officially^^)about 10 hours with her...
On the end of her trip to SK - according to sources in Seoul - Kim Yo-jong told Moon, "I wanna meet you again in Pyeongyang. And as soon as possible!".
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