Migrant workers protest against Employment Permit System
Social affairsAug 21, 2017
Migrant workers in South Korea staged a rally calling for the abolishment of the Employment Permit System, Sunday.Some five hundred laborers from organizations such as the Alliance for Migrants’ Equality and Human Rights and Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, gathered around Bosingak Bell in downtown Seoul for the rally. (Yonhap)The rally came after a Nepali worker, who couldn’t leave his ill-treating employer due to the EPS, died by suicide earlier this month.“The EPS, a modern-day slavery s