As provincial colleges in Korea compete to draw foreign students (mostly from China), more and more of these "students" are disappearing to join the illegal labor force. One university in Gwangju lost 12 of its 19 Chinese students when they simply vanished — all at once. With competition between local schools so intense for foreign students, word has gotten around China, apparently, that the best way to come to Korea (for employment purposes) is to enroll in a local university and then disappear.
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Chinese students disappearing in Gwangju to join illegal labor force. Gee, I wonder what line of work they’re in?
Of course, this happens everywhere. Here in Japan it’s become a frequent topic of paranoid, isolationist newspaper columns. It doesn’t help that a number of illegal Chinese and Chinese students commit fairly high-profile crimes.
Some of the illegal Chinese labour force are working on a construction site next to the Seoul apartment I live in - several weeks ago, heard gutteral northern Chinese accents coming through the bathroom window, interspersed with the usual drilling and hammering.. They don’t sound like students though, more like village boys from Shandong…
Will, I am sure that if you reported this to the Immigration Office, they might be thrilled with your civic sense… Or maybe not. Depends whether the construction site boss paid off people or not.
This is a technique tried and tested in Japan — it works real well.