South Korean population decline and anti-China sentiment
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https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/proposed-changes-skorea-citizenship-law-face-anti-china-headwinds-2021-06-16/
Proposed changes to S.Korea citizenship law face anti-China headwindsSouth Korea also has a population decline problem.
A recent proposal to ease certain immigration rule to make it easier for children of foreign workers who have stayed in South Korea for a long time to obtain South Korean citizenship ran into headwinds because people figured out that such a rule change will primarily benefit children of Chinese nationals.
South Koreans do not like China (the country), and that sentiment seems to have extended to Chinese (the people).
Yet, statistics also show that most of the “Chinese nationals” who live/work in South Korea these days are themselves of Korean by blood. Their Korean parents/grandparents just happened to have emigrated to China a long time ago and became citizens of China. So in essence the South Koreans’ backlash against the citizenship rule change proposal will in fact not make it any easier for these Korean-Chinese to become Korean citizens.
