Korea’s Human Rights Commission Says COVID-19 Stimulus Payments Should Go to Foreign Residents as Well
It looks like foreign residents in South Korea might eventually become eligible for a COVID-18 stimulus payment:
The South Korean human rights watchdog has stepped in after the governments of Seoul and Gyeonggi Province in March excluded some foreign residents from their disaster relief funds amid COVID-19’s blow to the domestic economy.
Korea Times
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea said Thursday it had advised Seoul mayor Park Won-soon and Gyeonggi provincial governor Lee Jae-myung to subsidize “all foreign residents” in their regions with registered addresses, according to Korean local news outlet Nocut News.
The independent state agency said that after examining experts’ opinions, precedent cases of COVID-19 subsidies allocated by governments, the constitution and local autonomy laws, it concluded that not paying the money to the foreign residents was “discrimination on an unreasonable ground.”
Article 12 and 13 of the local autonomy law, cited by the agency, states that “residents,” who have the right to local government’s administrative benefits that are fair to all, include foreigners who reported their addresses to local government offices.
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I see Korea going bankrupt, IMF 2 electric boogaloo , of course this is what commie moon wants is to ruin South Korea to drive it into the arms of the north at the behest of his chinese masters.
It’s what the voters asked for…