I’m guessing they were here on a business/consulting visa and doing more than that but it’s probably been de facto practice for years and hasn’t had issues. And I’m guessing the majority of them have skills in setting a factory up that are difficult to source locally.

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dmix 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

They were flown in under visas to help set up the plant as consultants (at least at one of the plants). I don't think they were intended to continue working there after. Some of the visas were also expired.

The article also says:

> LG Energy Solution said Saturday that 47 of its employees were detained, 46 of them Korean. Another 250 personnel from “equipment partner companies,” most of them Korean, were also being held, it added.

So it seems there were multiple parent companies involved

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givemeethekeys 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, it would take a while to train the locals to speak Korean.

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nemo44x 2 days ago | parent [-]

Indeed. Likely just a pragmatic thing here that’s always worked. Will likely end up with a new special kind of very short term visa to cover this sort of thing.

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nasmorn 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe your government is also jeopardizing FDI for some political grandstanding. Then no new visa is needed. Growth simply goes down and less people have health care. Problem solved

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givemeethekeys 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I sure hope not.

If they want to do business here, then they should be forced to hire here and train as needed and that includes teaching people their preferred ways of communicating.

	▲	jacquesm 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If we flipped that on US companies operating in Europe then there would be many cries of murder.
	▲	HDThoreaun 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> If they want to do business here Ok then they wont do business here.
	▲	SanjayMehta 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Specialist equipment require specialists to bring them up. It’s a chicken and egg situation to put it mildly. If you had the people who could be trained to install and run this plant you wouldn’t be importing the entire factory.
	▲	nemo44x 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Why, it’s like a 3 month consultancy thing not a full time role. I agree that locals should be hired for full time roles and that these guys went about it the wrong way, but previous administrations failed to enforce laws which created this de facto illegal situation.