Ethnic Korean immigrants face forced return from Seoul

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Originally published September 20, 2012.

In recent decades, South Korea has relied on migrant labor to help keep its economy running. Many come from Southeast and South Asia, but the majority of those foreign workers are from northeast China. They’re ethnically Korean and get special visas. However this year, tens of thousands will have to return home. From Seoul, FSRN’s Jason Strother has the story.