Lured by high pay and benefits


Demanding conditions: Workers labouring at a construction site in Seoul. Malaysians, using tourist visas to work as illegal labourers, take up tough jobs in the manufacturing, construction and plantation sectors in South Korea. — AP

PETALING JAYA: Some Malaysians were lured to work in South Korea with promises of high pay and other benefits by agents or their prospective employers.

However, they had to return home handicapped or injured after workplace accidents there.

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