Recruitment Agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and South Korea
The agreement on a program for the temporary employment of Korean miners in the West German coal industry ( Kor. 한독 근로자 채용 협정 , "Recruitment Agreement between Germany and Korea") was a recruitment agreement dated December 16, 1963 between the Federal Republic of Germany ( Cabinet Erhard I ) and South Korea . The recruitment of South Korean miners was regulated in a total of 21 articles. The aim of the employment was to expand and perfect the professional knowledge of the South Korean miners.
background
In 1961 German development aid for South Korea totaled 75 million DM. With around 35 million DM, a large part of the development aid for the expansion of the telephone system was to be financed. Around 20.72 million DM were to be invested in expanding the state coal mines. In addition to monetary support, the Federal Republic of Germany provided for a further contribution to development aid in South Korea. An agreement on a "program for the temporary employment of [South] Korean miners" came into force on December 16, 1963 through an exchange of notes between Germany and South Korea. Previous efforts to send South Korean interns and miners to Germany failed, even though the Federal Republic of Germany allowed Japanese miners to enter the Federal Republic for further professional training in 1963, six years before the program . The federal government shied away from the excessive financial expenditure of the South Korean interns, as well as the great cultural differences and therefore refused to send them. But with the help of the German mining industry, which was desperately looking for workers, the initial political rejection turned into economic acceptance. The mining industry saw the South Korean miners as cheap labor that they urgently needed. Thus the German government was gradually convinced of the idea of recruiting South Korean miners to Germany under the guise of "technical development aid". The recruitment policy was actually aimed specifically at southern European and thus culturally close “ guest workers ” from the Mediterranean region. On December 21, 247 brave, young and healthy South Korean men in Western suits boarded a plane at Gimpo Airport that took them to Germany. It was the first South Korean delegation to work in the German mines. The number of guest workers of South Korean nationality who emigrated from 1962 to 1977 was around 8,000; another 10,000 women emigrated to Germany in the same period to work in hospitals.
German-South Korean community postage stamp
On the 50th anniversary of the German-South Korean recruitment agreement, Federal President Joachim Gauck presented a community postage stamp at the 12th German-Korean Forum in Goslar on June 21, 2013. The brainchild of the German-South Korean joint postage stamp was the former Bundesliga ice hockey professional of the Krefeld Pinguine , junior national player and writer Martin Hyun . The postage stamp department initially rejected Hyun's selection of motifs from South Korean miners on the stamp. At the German-South Korean consultation talks on June 18, 2012 in Berlin, an agreement was finally reached on the Hermitage Park in Bayreuth with its temple of the sun and, on the South Korean side, the Hyangwonjeong Pavilion in the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul . The choice of motifs for the Bayreuth Hermitage Park was significantly influenced by Hartmut Koschyk , Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance , whose constituency is in Bayreuth. In addition to the South Korean Ambassador Moon Tae-young , and high-ranking representatives of the South Korean Post Office, Ambassador a. D., Michael Geier , Lutz-Hermann Richter from Deutsche Post AG and the writer Martin Hyun were present. The former German Ambassador in Seoul and Ministerial Director of the Foreign Office and Head of the Culture and Communication Department Hans-Ulrich Seidt also played a key role in the implementation of the German-South Korean community postage stamp .
Bundestag resolution
In the 250th and last week of the Bundestag session on June 27, 2013, before the summer break, the motion "Dynamic development of German- [South] Korean relations" was placed on the agenda item 41st without debate. The author and former ice hockey professional Martin Hyun provided the idea behind the Bundestag resolution to honor the 50-year recruitment agreement between Germany and South Korea . Due to the large number of applications, the application was barely noticed by the public.
See also
Web links
- "Little Longing for Korea" Deutsche Welle
- "50 Years Koreans in Germany" column by Martin Hyun
- "Prime Minister Kraft praises former Korean miners" The West
- Local compass
- Martin Ahlers: Mining series: Johnny, the Duisburg buddy from Korea. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . September 11, 2018, accessed October 5, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Embassy Seoul: 50th anniversary of the recruitment agreement ( memento of the original from June 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Published in 2013, accessed July 27, 2015
- ↑ WDR: Leave home and work underground ( Memento from May 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Goethe-Institut : Arrived in Germany - 50 Years of the German-Korean Recruitment Agreement , Author: Volker Thomas, Published in May 2013, accessed on January 23, 2015
- ^ NDR Regional Lower Saxony
- ↑ Migazin: Federal President Gauck presents German-Korean joint postage stamps. Column by Martin Hyun
- ↑ Bundestag ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
