Human Rights Watch has just printed this letter it sent to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea about the issue of discriminatory regulations and laws.
If the Korean government doesn’t think that nation branding and the treatment of foreigners living in Korea aren’t inexplicably linked, the future doesn’t look bright.
“The complaint submitted by Mr. Benjamin Wagner to the NHRCK on the E-2 visa policy details the influence that media reports on non-citizens’ HIV rates, sexual offenses, and drug involvement-as opposed to verifiable public health data-have had in directing the course of that policy.”