The migrant workers in South Korea’s farm and livestock business are living in a world where illogical contracts receive official approval, a world in which contracts do not reflect reality. Deceptive contracts and secret contracts are rampant. ... Before 2012, contracts openly violated the Minimum Age Act. There were no limits on the number of working hours, and numerous contracts defied both the principles of logic and the rules of math. In 2013, it became more common for the monthly working hours listed in the contract to be fixed at 226 even when the daily hours neared 11. Even when these contracts accidentally revealed the fact that workers were doing overtime, wages were invariably tied to an eight-hour day to keep costs down. ... But fundamentally, these deceptive contracts betray the same fundamental disconnect with reality. The actual working hours are much greater than the number that appears in the contract, and the wages paid assume eight-hour days, regardless of the actual length of the work day. It is also becoming more common for employers to force workers to sign an alternate contract in addition to the official one, just as A, B, and C experienced. The widespread production of contracts whose promises are meaningless is directly connected to the dysfunctional system of regulation. The government is failing to provide the management and supervision that is supposed to ensure that the language of contracts corresponds with reality. ... While the ministry is shirking its responsibility to keep tabs on contracts, alternate contracts that arbitrarily define working conditions and housing costs are making a mockery of the standard work contract. Each time the government approves a work contract that could not stand up in a court of law, we are served a meal watered with the tears of migrant workers in the farm and livestock industries.