North Korean defectors in Seoul will receive training to become shuttle bus drivers as part of a new city initiative to address a chronic driver shortage, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Thursday.
According to the city government, a pilot program will be launched in collaboration with the Seoul metropolitan town bus association, under which at least 20 North Korean defectors seeking employment will undergo training this year.
That’s one way to use immigrant labor in a largely xenophobic society that has gone too far into capitalism to avoid immigrant underclass labor.