Pure racism’: Foreign workers in South Korea slate major city’s ‘discriminatory’ new anti-Covid directive to firms employing them

Foreign workers have denounced

Foreign workers have denounced a South Korean city’s newly launched Covid-screening campaign as “racist” and “nonsensical” after it made testing mandatory for workplaces with less than 30 employees – if one of them is a foreigner.

The city of Suwon, some 30km south of the capital Seoul, issued the ‘administrative order’ to block the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. It directed workers and managers at some 441 companies to undergo PCR diagnostic tests at a temporary center in the city by August 15.

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