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

I find it amazing that theres so much sympathy towards giant Korean megacorp here.

“Oh, maybe they got mixed up with the visa because language”. No they did not.

“Oh, maybe it’s really difficult to find local talent”. No it isn’t. Not for them.

There are many advantages for them to illegally fly in a whole Workforce. That is why they did it.

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It’s more exasperation at how ridiculous this process is, treating foreign labor like dangerous criminals by default.

How do you suggest we should treat foreign illegal labor?

In this case, give them and the company responsible a court summons?

Instead they detained all the Koreans in the building and appear to have used them as a negotiating chip in an upcoming “deal” with the government of South Korea. This is behavior we expect of a banana republic not an allied nation of laws.

while all these things are true, they're not great descriptions of a banana republic.

Feel free to add the ones that you think that are, as long as they apply.

- Sham judicial processes used to strongarm officials? Check.

From Wikipedia:

> the term banana republic describes a politically and economically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the export of natural resource.

The dependence upon natural resource may be hard to check.