The controversy is too big, South Korea stops!

The local government arranged for rural men to meet with Southeast Asian female students and was stopped.

According to the Korean KBS TV report on the 7th, a local government in South Korea was exposed to increase the local population and arranged for rural men in South Korea to meet with Southeast Asian female students and have been criticized for racial discrimination. This incident has caused great controversy in South Korea, and the project has been stopped.

The South Korean Immitic Female Human Rights Center and Vietnamese students held a press conference in front of the South Korean National Human Rights Commission in the Central District of Seoul on May 28, 2021 to condemn the "rural guy to marry" project promoted by the local population to increase the local population. Photo from Korean media

According to reports, Wenqing City, South Korea, Wenqing City, began the same immigration business agency company last year to jointly promote the promotion of "international marriage" related projects, and publicly arrange for rural men in South Korea to meet with Southeast Asian female students. Recently, with the cooperation document sent by Wenqing Municipal Government to relevant enterprises, the online public documents have been made public on the Internet, which has caused greater public opinion disputes. Some people criticize this: "Related projects are both gender discrimination and racial discrimination on immigrant women." Some citizen groups believe that local governments should have supervised and resisted "international marriage" with commercial properties, but now it has encouraged it to promote it. This phenomenon. The civic group also reported the matter to the Korean National Human Rights Commission.

Data map from Korean media

It is reported that Wenqing Municipal Government argued with the South Korean National Human Rights Commission on the issue of disputes that in order to help immigrants' women's residence and publicized the growth of population growth, they planned the relevant "international marriage" projects, arranged for unmarried men and women to meet each other on the meeting. Chance. The project -related cooperative company also said that it was the company's parties to modify and upload the local city government project cooperation letter and uploaded it to the Internet, which caused controversy. The company also said that after the citizen group questioned the project, the company had realized the mistake and immediately stopped the development of relevant projects.

According to reports, the South Korean National Human Rights Commission stated that the actual situation of Southeast Asian female students came to South Korea for the purpose of studying abroad, and only imagined them as the marriage objects of men in rural areas in Korea, and then promoted the relevant "international marriage" projects. This contains racial discrimination. At the same time, it is also a problem to use immigration women as a tool to promote population growth. South Korean National Human Rights Commissioner believes that local governments need to start from an equal perspective and formulate related projects to promote population growth, and to prevent similar problems occur again.

Source: Global Network/Fu Jiajun

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