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Stop Calling Them ‘Hey You’: South Korea’s New Push for Worker Respect

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The Ministry of Employment and Labor has launched a \”Respect for Migrant Workers\” campaign to foster a culture of respect across industrial workplaces.

On the 28th, the ministry held the campaign in Gwangju in partnership with four labor-rights foundations.

About 100 people, including local business representatives and migrant workers, attended. Participants distributed hard hats engraved with names and emphasized the importance of mutual respect and workplace safety.

The campaign is a follow-up to a memorandum of understanding the ministry and the labor-rights foundations signed in April to improve migrant workers’ labor rights.

The ministry said the effort aims to change on-site practices—such as addressing coworkers with phrases like \”hey, you\”—and to promote an atmosphere that treats migrant workers as colleagues.

The four participating labor-rights foundations were the Public Coexistence Fund, the Financial Industry Public Interest Foundation, the Office and Finance Ubuntu Foundation, and the Jeon Tae-il Foundation.

The ministry and the foundations ran their first joint campaign in Ulsan in April. They plan to continue the campaign in North Gyeongsang Province next month.

The ministry said it will keep touring the country to sustain the Respect for Migrant Workers campaign.

Son Pil-hoon, Director of Planning and Coordination at the ministry, said, \”Improving attitudes on the ground is essential to creating workplaces where migrant workers are respected and can work safely. We will continue working with the labor-rights foundations to ensure a culture of mutual respect takes root at industrial sites.\”

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