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South Korean workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home

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103 points MilnerRoute | 7 comments | 07 Sep 25 13:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.245s | source | bottom
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nemo44x ◴[07 Sep 25 14:35 UTC] No.45158512[source]▶
I’m guessing they were here on a business/consulting visa and doing more than that but it’s probably been de facto practice for years and hasn’t had issues. And I’m guessing the majority of them have skills in setting a factory up that are difficult to source locally.
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givemeethekeys ◴[07 Sep 25 14:46 UTC] No.45158619[source]▶
Yeah, it would take a while to train the locals to speak Korean.
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1. nemo44x ◴[07 Sep 25 14:56 UTC] No.45158729[source]▶
Indeed. Likely just a pragmatic thing here that’s always worked. Will likely end up with a new special kind of very short term visa to cover this sort of thing.
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2. givemeethekeys ◴[07 Sep 25 14:58 UTC] No.45158753[source]▶
I sure hope not.

If they want to do business here, then they should be forced to hire here and train as needed and that includes teaching people their preferred ways of communicating.

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3. jacquesm ◴[07 Sep 25 16:26 UTC] No.45159621[source]▶
If we flipped that on US companies operating in Europe then there would be many cries of murder.
4. nemo44x ◴[07 Sep 25 16:40 UTC] No.45159740[source]▶
Why, it’s like a 3 month consultancy thing not a full time role. I agree that locals should be hired for full time roles and that these guys went about it the wrong way, but previous administrations failed to enforce laws which created this de facto illegal situation.
5. HDThoreaun ◴[07 Sep 25 16:55 UTC] No.45159883[source]▶
> If they want to do business here

Ok then they wont do business here.

6. nasmorn ◴[07 Sep 25 17:15 UTC] No.45160089[source]▶
Maybe your government is also jeopardizing FDI for some political grandstanding. Then no new visa is needed. Growth simply goes down and less people have health care. Problem solved
7. SanjayMehta ◴[07 Sep 25 19:04 UTC] No.45161183[source]▶
Specialist equipment require specialists to bring them up.

It’s a chicken and egg situation to put it mildly. If you had the people who could be trained to install and run this plant you wouldn’t be importing the entire factory.