Jung Woo-sung made the remarks at the 2018 Jeju Island Porum special session People on the Road: Today and Tomorrow in the World Refugee Problem at the Jeju Island International Convention Center on the 26th.
“We have been opposed to the forced recall of North Koreans who have escaped to a third country,” Chung said. “Telling the forced recall to those who have applied for Refugee can be a decision to drive their lives to death.”
“The issue of accepting the Refugee is a problem that the Korean people have faced for the first time, so it is natural that discussions are needed,” he said. “But emotional expressions are concerned, beyond the nature of poorly-founded information or discussions.”
“Some people say to me, ‘Is it more important for Human rights of Refugee than the Human rights of the people of South Korea?’ Refugee is a person who has the right to be protected,’” he said. “No of the Human rights of his people and their Human rights can be prioritized.”
On the first day, the Ministry of Justice and the Jeju Island also said that "it is impossible to think about Human rights" in relation to the designation of Yemen as a non-involved country.
“Restricting the entry of the Refugees is a risk that the Refugees cannot ask for help anywhere,” Chung said. “But the word Human rights can be a vague story for the public, and in the case of the Jeju Islanders, the antipathy and anxiety of the idea that the Jeju Island is responsible for it may be great.”
“If the release is granted, I think that the Yemen Refugee applicants can get jobs and make a living with the help of the Yemen community,” he said. “This is a way to reduce the burden of supporting Jeju Island and the central government.”
“The problem of 500 Jeju Island Yemen Refugee is a fuse that reveals various social problems such as the environment in which mothers can not raise their children, the social deprivation that 2030 generations experience, and the anxiety about women's exposure to sex crimes,” he said. “The South Korean government should listen to the people and solve their anxiety.”
“Every year, every Refugee Day (June 20), we posted a posting on SNS account urging us to pay attention to Refugee as a goodwill ambassador, and this year we only talked about the issue of Jeju Island Yemen Refugee,” said Yun Seo-in, a Webtoon writer who recently criticized Jung’s posting of the Refugee issue. It seems that many people were surprised because they had a somewhat strong tone. "
2018 Jeju Island Porum 'People on the Road, today and tomorrow of World Refugee' "Yemen unsavory country can not be designated...