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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach

School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell University

16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky

New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau

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Korea Labor Institute (KLI)

Working Paper 216

e-Labor News No.126

Issue paper

NON-PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN WORKERS' POLIICY OF KOREA: STATUS AND CHALLENGES {28 September 2012]

(Dr. Kyu-Yong Lee, Research Fellow, Korea Labor Institute)

http://www.kli.re.kr/kli_ehome/work/vew.ehome-200004?pageNo=&condition=&keyword=&rowNum=&year=&firstClass=&seq=349&listNum=216#none

[full-text, 22 pages]

[excerpt]

The purpose of this paper is to review the status and issues of the non-professional

foreign-labor supply regime in Korea and to present areas for improvement. The supply

regime is discussed from three perspectives: the problems of the inflow scale and destination

industries (problem of quantity), the skill level of the foreign workers (productivity), and the

inflow process (foreign-worker delivery system). Because they are related to the policy

principles and institutional administration regarding foreign workers, there will be a review

of policies and institutions as well, followed by some suggestions for improvement.

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