What I find depressing is that so many of these cases lead to various authorities issuing a limited statement on behalf of just their particular in-group. We do see some wider condemnation going on. But like, the right thing for the Korean companies and government to do would be to issue a full-throated denunciation of the administration's entire immigration fiasco (if not the entire administration itself), rather than just "please don't do these specific things to this particular type of worker from this particular country".

If someone is firing a machine gun indiscriminately in all directions, it's naive to think you can survive by asking them to just please not point it towards you.