Due to globalization, since the early 1990s, there has been “high demand for migrant workers in South Korean economy for 3D jobs” (K. Moon, 147-148). This gives opportunity to other Asian countries’ labors to work in Korea. They “could earn more money than working in their own countries.” The economic globalization and the socio-cultural globalization share the negative effects on the daily lives of migrant workers. Since many of the migrant workers are illegal residents in Korea, they experience lots of abuses by their employers, such as taking away their passports and not paying their wages properly. According to Katherine, she defines the migrant workers as “a modern form of slave labor” (K. Moon, 149). “The social discrimination in the general public” is due to the nationalism. In the Katherine’s article, it says that Koreans questioned “How can we provide for others when we can’t provide for our own?” Koreans think that the migrant workers take away the employment chances from Koreans who cannot find a job (K. Moon, 165). To improve their treatments in the society, they participate in the foreign worker movements and argue that Koreans should “find a way to live harmoniously together” (K. Moon, 153). Also, the migrant workers viewed themselves as an outsider who self-sacrifice to develop South Korean economy (K. Moon, 156). Although there are many human rights movement for migrant workers, the negative …show more content…
Also, the women have significant electoral power, which leads the government to work on the gender equality and women’s welfare. (S. Moon, 127). According to Seungsook, “Chun’s regime stressed for the first time issues of social welfare” and gender equality (S. Moon, 138). On the other hand, one of the negative impacts is that women were work in production part of global factories, with low pays in vulnerable conditions (S. Moon, 127). Also, the young single women could not continue to work after the marriage or childbirth, due to the patriarchal ideology in South Korean society (S. Moon, 135). For socio-cultural globalization, there are “universalistic notion of women’s human rights,” which “enhances the demand for women’s policy” (S. Moon, 128). Also, for example, “UN-sponsored women’s conference and related attempts to eliminate discrimination against women have produced a global milieu favorable to the activation of a women’s movement in South Korea since the mid-1980s (S. Moon, 131). The socio-cultural globalization gives positive impacts on the women’s