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Yesterday (19th) that the same salary to foreign workers was unfair, the criticism of the representative of the Hwang class Korean party continued today. Hwang explained that it was the intention to rectify the rapid rise of the minimum wage, but criticized the fact that he not only ignored the constitution and the law but seriously distorted the facts.

It is Kwon Ji-yoon.

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It is the contents of remarks of the representative of the Hwang class president yesterday.

"Foreign workers have no tax, no contribution, it is not fair to give the same wages." There is a reason for criticism.

[Yoon Soh-Hae / Representative of the Justice Committee: (Speech of Hwang's representative) If EU leaders are listening, Korea will be placed on the trade negotiating table right away.]

Article 111 of the ILO Convention, which has the same effect as the domestic law in accordance with the Constitution, stipulates prohibition of discrimination on the basis of nationality, race, sex, etc. and Article 6 of the Korea Labor Standard Act prohibits discrimination based on nationality.

[Chae Bae / Chairman of the Policy Committee for the Future Policy: Minister of Justice, Prime Minister, President of the Republic, and I am embarrassed that neither the Labor Standards Act nor the International Labor Organization Convention were known.]

In January, when the National Tax Service reported that 558,000 foreign workers paid a tax of 770 billion won only in 2017,

[Amendment / In addition, Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee: Including taxes paid by foreign workers to state subsidies paid to representatives of the Hwangsang administration and the free Korean government.]

Hwang pointed to the government again, saying that the essence is the surplus minimum wage,

[Hwangsangdo / Representative of the Free Korea Party: This regime which raised the minimum wage is a matter of responsibility, but it is really absurd to attack me who will solve the problem.]

The report by the Bank of Korea in 2017 points out that foreign workers' wages are only 64% of Koreans, which is below the OECD average of 88%.

(Image coverage: Byung-Joo Lee, Ha-Rung, Image editing: Park Jung-sam)