国际特赦表示，韩国农业存在“普遍虐待”现象。国际特赦呼吁韩国停止大范围使用强迫外来劳工从事农业工作。
该组织发布的报告 - 《痛苦的收获》- 记录了韩国发生的普遍压榨外来农业劳工的情况。
报告说，韩国的雇佣许可制度目的是让雇用本国劳工有困难的中小企业能够雇用外国劳工。
国际特赦移民劳工权益研究员穆伊科表示，韩国有关当局制造了“一个令人羞耻的制度，让贩卖劳工和压榨外来劳工得以发展起来。” 穆伊科说：“雇佣许可制度是韩国的污点。”
这份报告是根据对韩国各地从事农业工作的外来移民劳工的采访撰写的。报告记录各种压榨外国劳工的现象，包括威胁、暴力、居住环境恶劣、加班加点、没有休息日和加班不加薪等。
Amnesty International says South Korea's farming industry is "rife with abuse," and has called on the country to end its widespread use of forced labor migrant agricultural workers.
A published report by AI (Bitter Harvest) documents the widespread exploitation of migrant agricultural workers in South Korea.
The report says the country's Employment Permit System, or EPS, is designed" to provide migrant labor to small and medium-sized enterprises that struggle to hire a sufficient number of national workers."
Amnesty International's migrant rights researcher, Norma Kang Muico, says South Korean authorities have created "a shameful system that allows trafficking for exploitation and forced labor to flourish." Muico says EPS is "a stain on the country."
The report, based on interviews with migrant agricultural workers across South Korea, documents a range of exploitation, including intimidation and violence, squalid accommodations, excessive working hours, no weekly rest days and unpaid overtime.
