“Video showing migrant worker moved by forklift prompts action from South Korea’s president”
South Korea’s president ordered officials to find ways to prevent abuses of migrant workers after a video showing a Sri Lankan worker being moved by a forklift while tied up…
South Korean human rights activists on Wednesday released the video filmed at a brick factory in the southwestern city of Naju in late February…
The video shows a forklift driver, who has been identified as a South Korean, lifting another worker who is bound with plastic wraps and tied to bricks. The driver moves him around the factory yard in the vehicle while the sound of laughter from another person can be heard.
The 31-year-old victim, who came to South Korea in November, suffered the abuse for about five minutes as a punishment imposed by the South Korean forklift driver who wasn’t happy with his brick wrapping skills…
Naju city officials said the head of the factory told them he had been informed the event was organized as a prank. But Mun said “bounding a person with plastic wraps” cannot be dismissed as a prank.
The Labor Ministry said in a statement Thursday it will launch an investigation of the factory and inspect whether foreign workers there have experienced beating, bullying and overdue wages…