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Saturday, May 27, 2006

An Immigration Plan that Makes Sense for Korea
This seems to be a ploy to get the rural* vote: Korea to Ensure Equal Treatment of Foreign Spouses.

I disagree with the talk of "multicultural understanding" and all that, but there is a related proposal that makes sense:
    Under a comprehensive plan on the treatment of foreigners, the government also wants to allow ethnic Koreans in China and the former Soviet Union to visit Korea and find jobs here freely.
I believe Italy has tried to do the same thing, in trying to bring back the Italian diaspora from Latin America. I guess that would make more than half of Argentina eligible.

*A third of South Korea's rural men men who work in farming and fisheries marry foreign women, most of them from Vietnam, China, or the Philippines.