XEN / YONG SOON MIN

In a country where non-Koreans readily stand out, the initial catalyst for this project was a sighting in 2001 of a large group of foreign men in Dongdaemun, a popular, sprawling market in central Seoul. My question of who they were and what they were doing in Seoul was answered later that year at

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a lecture in Los Angeles' Koreatown at an immigrant labor advocacy organization. A labor media activist mentioned a migrant worker's union as part of a larger discussion about the history of the Korean labor movement.'

(Abstract from Yong Soon Min)

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