FUTURE OF KAESONG INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IN LIMBO
April 1st, 2013
With 53,000 North Korean workers failing to show up for work at the inter-Korean Kaesong industrial complex since Tuesday, the area’s key clothing and textile manufacturing plants have ground to a halt. The industrial park in North Korea’s border city of Kaesong houses 123 South Korean companies that employ North Koreans as manufacturing sector laborers.According to Lee Yeon-Du, a spokeswoman at South Korea’s Ministry of Unification, “textile-related firms - clothing and cloth manufacturing companies - comprise 60 percent of the businesses”.Noeul Kang, ...
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