Last year, more than 1,000 foreign seasonal workers left the country without permission - South Korea

In South Korea, it was revealed that more than 1,000 seasonal foreign workers in rural areas left their workplaces without permission last year.
Choi Chung-sik, a member of the ruling party ``People's Power'' who belongs to the Agriculture, Forestry, Livestock, Food, Ocean and Fisheries Committee of the Korean National Assembly, said,
According to documents obtained from the Ministry of Justice, a total of 1,818 seasonal foreign workers in rural areas left their work sites without permission from 2018 to July this year.
Looking at the number of people who left the company by year, in 2018 it was 100 people and in 2019 it was 57 people, but in 2021 it was 316 people and in 2022 it was 1.
The number rapidly increased to 151 people. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 virus infection situation, no foreign seasonal workers entered the country.
In particular, the increase in the number of people leaving last year to the 1,000 level was due to seasonal workers.
This is because a total of 19,718 people have adopted the system, an increase of seven times compared to the total of 2,824 in 2018. Congressman Choi said, ``Although the number of foreign seasonal workers introduced has increased significantly, the number of seasonal workers has increased significantly.
There are limits to the management of staff as basic autonomous bodies are in charge of managing them." For this reason, in September last year, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Livestock and Food (Ministry) announced that they would be implementing a specialized
However, the situation has remained ``under consideration'' for more than a year. Rep. Choi said, ``If foreign seasonal workers leave without permission, it will be difficult to track them down, and the problem of lack of human resources in rural areas will become more serious.''
There is an urgent need to develop measures to prevent workers from leaving the country." ``Instead of leaving the management of seasonal workers solely to local governments, the government must designate a specialized agency to ensure that national former personnel management is carried out.''
I have to,” he said.