Lee's migrant worker remarks fall short of embracing Korea's growing diversity

Korea Times News ·
Politics Government South Korea
South Korea

President Lee Jae Myung said Tuesday that migrant workers don’t “contribute much to the national economy” because they send their earnings home. When criticism followed his remarks at a Cabinet meeting, he focused on a word missing from a newspaper headline — “much.” But restoring that word does little to address the larger question of whether the president sees foreign workers as members of…

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