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By GI Korea on November 20th, 2006 at 10:13 am

Housekeeping Related Incidents in USFK?

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This is definitely one of these only in Yongsan type of stories. From the Stars and Stripes:

Some nannies, maids and other household workers whom military families hired in South Korea may lose their base privileges in coming months as U.S. Forces Korea begins limiting access to workers violating local immigration and labor standards.

This stricter enforcement policy — described by USFK’s top spokesman as an educational campaign rather than a crackdown — most likely will affect families who live in South Korea under a status-of-forces-agreement visa and who have hired Filipinas or other non-South Koreans as nannies or maids.

“We’re not on a witch hunt here,” Col. Franklin Childress, USFK’s public affairs officer, said Friday. “We want to make sure we educate our personnel adequately about this situation.”

The situation is this: South Korea’s government, in most circumstances, does not allow foreigners to take household jobs such as maids, nannies or gardeners in the homes of SOFA personnel, according to Childress and the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Those SOFA personnel include servicemembers, Department of Defense workers and contractors and their family members living both on and off military bases, he said.

First we had alcohol related incidents, then taxi cab related incidents, now housekeeping related incidents!

I didn’t even know an illegal Fillipina immigrant could even get an ID to get on post? This just doesn’t sound like a very good force protection policy? Don’t let the soldiers know about this, because before you know it every soldier will have their own Fillipina “maid” in the barracks with an ID card.

This obviously has less to do with upholding Korean law and more to do with protecting Korean jobs and allowing access to more Koreans on post to play the slot machines and golf courses. I’m only half joking here because those who live on USFK base know there is definitely some truth to it.

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