South Korean Police launch 100-day nationwide crackdown on migrant worker abuse

South Korean police will launch a 100-day special crackdown on abuses against migrant workers, the Korean National Police Agency said Monday.

Each of the nation’s 18 regional police agencies has formed a special unit that will operate through Nov. 25 to investigate cases of violence, assault, confinement, coercion, humiliation, sexual abuse and labor exploitation targeting foreign workers.

The initiative follows nationwide outrage over a video showing a Sri Lankan worker being strapped to a forklift and lifted off the ground.

The incident occurred in February at a brick factory in Naju, South Jeolla Province, where the Sri Lankan, who had been working there for just three months, was allegedly harassed by a Korean forklift driver in his 50s after making mistakes on the job.