"Migrant fishermen vulnerable to abuse", 25 Aug. 2016

Foreign and local experts, as well as government officials addressed Thursday human rights abuses faced by migrant workers in South Korea’s fishing industry and exchanged suggestions to improve the situation. 

Hosted by the National Assembly Human Rights Forum, Advocates for Public Interest Law and International Organization for Migration’s Korea office, scores of human rights lawyers, activists and government officials came together for a regional conference in Seoul on ethical recruitment... migrant fishing crews are more vulnerable to human rights abuses as existing laws focus on protecting Korean fishermen...

...[An] investigation [by APIL]...found that migrant fishing crews suffer from poor living conditions, long hours of work, discriminatory pay, confiscation of their documents, assault and verbal abuses, among other issues.