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Koreans working for Li-Ning contractor are suffering from low pay and back-breaking work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean laborers employed by a contractor of the Chinese sporting goods firm Li-Ning are suffering from low pay and high-intensity work, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in China told Daily NK on Apr. 12 that several clothing manufacturers in Dandong, Liaoning Province, in collaboration with the Li-Ning head office, are making sports clothing and one of the companies employs around 600-700 North Korean laborers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said that North Korean laborers dispatched overseas have been working for the last seven or eight years at this company, which is around 15 kilometers away from Dandong. Daily NK was unable to confirm whether North Korean laborers are working at other Li-Ning contractors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source reported that he was taken aback by the fact that such a large number of North Korean laborers have been working there for such a long time and that this fact is not well known to the outside world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese companies recruit considerable numbers of North Korean laborers because they can pay lower wages for high-intensity work than they would to local Chinese workers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said that North Korean laborers at the company near Dandong receive monthly wages of about RMB 2,300 (around USD 348). \u201cThere was talk of a pay raise, but that fell by the wayside due to COVID-19,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The average monthly wage of Chinese workers in the logging industry is RMB 8,000 &#8211; 12,000 (about USD 1,210 &#8211; 1,815). In comparison, the pay North Korean laborers receive for their work is remarkably low.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean laborers at Li-Ning contractors in Dandong also receive less than the average monthly wage of North Korean workers in China of RMB 2,800 &#8211; 3,200 (USD 423 &#8211; 484).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, these workers suffer from long hours and high-intensity labor, a situation criticized even in China as \u201cslave labor.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNorth Korean laborers in Dandong work every day from 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM. After eating dinner, they go back to work from 8 PM to 10 PM,\u201d the source said. \u201cThe intensity of labor there is terribly high and they work like machines without even one day of rest.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese laborers working like this would earn RMB 200 (around USD 30) per day, which comes to RMB 5,000 &#8211; 6,000 (around USD 756 &#8211; 907) per month; however, North Korean laborers do not even earn RMB 100 (around USD 15) per day for the same work, he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cChinese companies say they can&#8217;t make any clothes without North Korean laborers. Nearly all Chinese clothing companies in China hire North Koreans,\u201d the source added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), part of the US Department of Homeland Security, revealed on Mar. 15 through its homepage that it will seize goods manufactured by Li-Ning at all US ports of entry in compliance with the \u201cCountering America\u2019s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act.&#8221; According to the agency, the decision to do this came after confirmation that Li-Ning used North Korean labor in the process of manufacturing its goods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the sanctions have not led to an immediate change in the work environment at the factory in Dandong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBecause the US is not Li-Ning\u2019s primary customer, and due to the fact that the measures have only recently been implemented, it has not yet made a difference and the factories are still operating without issue,\u201d the source said. \u201cWe\u2019ll have to wait a month or two to see if these sanctions will have any effect on North Korean workers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by Jason Mallet. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220412-5\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean laborers employed by a contractor of the Chinese sporting goods firm Li-Ning are suffering from low pay and high-intensity work, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 A source in China told Daily NK on Apr. 12 that several clothing manufacturers in Dandong, Liaoning Province, in collaboration with the Li-Ning head office, are making sports clothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":42997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[759,886,1151],"class_list":["post-51496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-china","tag-manufacturing","tag-clothing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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