Migrant workers in South Korea: Between strategic ambivalence and systematic exploitation

• Main Author: Ybiernas, Vicente Angel S.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Foreign workers > Korea (South); Migrant labor > Korea (South); Labor Relations
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/13409
• Institution: De La Salle University

Prior to the 1980s, the South Korean workplace was not reliant on migrant workers. However, roughly just before the Seoul Olympics of 1988 were held, there was a noticeable increase in the number of foreign workers in South Korea. From the 1980s onwards, the South Korean government and its export-de...