Migration of highly educated People and social Integration

Zusammenfassung

Korea has been importing foreign workers since the early 1990s. Migrant workers have usually filled the low-paying, low-skill shortages as Korean workers are moving up into high-income and highly-skilled works. Also, foreign brides have replaced Korean ones as they have married Korean bachelors in rural areas. Understandably, the rapid growth of foreign-born workforce has partially supported the solid growth of the Korean economy, likewise, as the foreign brides have helped to rejuvenate the aging rural society. However, it should also be noted that the migrants’ jobsprimarily focus on low-skill jobs as they remain in those very labor intensive areas, where domestic workers hardly want to work.