…Suicide has been the second leading cause of death among migrant workers after traffic accidents, according to the Migrant Workers Mental Health Survey Report by WeFriends…

The 2022 study… 98.4 percent of migrants among a sample of 386 exhibited depressive symptoms...

Kim Mi-sun, the executive director of WeFriends, said that people often mistakenly believe that migrant workers develop mental health issues because they find it difficult to adapt to a new environment in Korea.

However, many immigrant workers say “It’s actually about work,”…

A factor that contributes to migrant workers’ stress about the workplace is the Employment Permit System…

The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affair’s report on health inequality among migrant workers states that 29.8 percent of migrant workers have 60-hour work weeks…

…migrant workers are not paid extra if they work overtime or during the weekends…

…Korean citizens above the age of 18, 54 percent recognized that Korean society had hateful or discriminatory attitudes towards migrants…

[The] migrant population was impacted disproportionately [by COVID-19], especially concerning mental health…

WeFriends, as a part of their efforts to aid migrant workers, has established a Migrant Workers Suicide Prevention Project…