Video showing migrant worker moved by forklift prompts action from South Korea’s president
Seoul, South Korea (AP) – South Korean President ordered the authorities to find ways to prevent them Abuse of immigrant workers After a video showing that a Sri Lankalı worker was connected to a South Korean factory, he was moved by a forklift.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes after watching the video” President Lee Jae Myung He wrote on a Facebook post on Thursday. “This was a unbearable violation of a minority person and violations of human rights.”
Later, at a Cabinet Council meeting, Lee condemned the abuse again and increased concerns about South Korea’s international image. He ordered the ministries of government to determine the status of migrant workers and other minorities in South Korea to determine the status of human rights violations and find realistic steps to prevent such abuse.
South Korea Human Rights activists released a video at a brick factory in Naju, Southwest Naju on Wednesday. They said it was taken and provided by a Sri Lanka worker.
The video shows a forklift driver, defined as South Korean, connected to plastic windings and lifts another worker connected to bricks. While the driver moves it around the factory garden in the vehicle, laughter can be heard from another person.
The 31 -year -old sacrifice, who came to South Korea in November, was abused for about five minutes as a penalty given by the South Korean Forklift driver, who was not satisfied with the brick packaging skills, according to Mun Gil Ju, one of the local activists in the release of the video.
Naju City officials, the factory president, the event was informed that the event was organized as a joke, he said. However, Mun said that özgür limiting a person with plastic winding ”could not be rejected as a joke.
The company has about 24 workers, including seven from East Timor and Sri Lanka, along with South Koreans. According to Naju officials, the victim of Sri Lanka is still working for the factory.
The Ministry of Labor said in a statement on Thursday, the factory investigation and the foreign workers there, tattoos, bullying and delayed fees will examine whether they have experienced.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Southeast Asia and China are receiving low -paid or dangerous jobs in factories, farms and other places where activists say many experiences and abuse.
