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2011, the water quality of groundwater 17 meters underground was 772 PPM based on BOD,* showing a big difference
fromtapwaterofabout120PPM.Itiscontaminatedwiththelevelofleachateinthelandfill(BOD400-800PPM),which
is usually considered the dirtiest water. If leachate leaks and groundwater is contaminated, people who drink it are more
likelytogetsick.Therefore,leachateoutflowintogroundwaterandsoilisdangerous.
*BOD:Theamountofoxygenconsumedwhenmicroorganismsdecomposeorganicmatterinwater.Itistheamountofoxygenrequiredtopurifywater.
3.OutsourcedWork
Until 2014, before the stamping-out policy was outsourced to quarantine or manpower companies, it was mainly local
governmentofficialswhodidthework.However,aftertheoutbreakofAIagaininJanuary2014andwhenthegovernment
officials had to kill 24,772,000 chickens and ducks for 517 days until November of the following year, the Korean
GovernmentEmployees’Unionprotested,saying,“Stoptheforcedmobilizationofpublicofficialstostamping-outpolicy.”
After that, soldiers have been mainly in charge of it, but this time, parents who sent their children to the military have
protested as concerns arose that AI is a waterborne disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans. It became
difficult to mobilize soldiers and eventually the task went to day labor workers from foreign countries. The country has
foundworkersthathavenouniontogeneratebacklashandnoparentstoprotest.Duetotheoutsourcingofthestamping-out
policyprocess,efficiencyhasbecomethehighestvalue,andtothisend,alargenumberofmigrantworkers,whoareeasyto
handlefromthegovernment’spointofview,havebeenmobilized.
Thereasonwhyquarantineandservicecompaniesprefermigrantworkersisbecauseoftheirefficiency.Accordingtoan
interview between Hankyoreh and Chung Sang-chul, CEO of a service company, “Koreans don’t do this work very often.
First of all, Korean people don’t listen. If we use foreign workers, those who can’t work, we just don’t use them from the
next day. If you starve them for a few days, they will come and get a place next time. I’m gradually filtering out people.
Ahundredpeoplewillcomeand10peoplewillquit,and10morewillparticipate,andlateronlyelitetroopswillbeleft,”
expressing the situation of migrant workers who have no choice but to participate in stamping-out policy. As such, no
one spoke out for foreign day labor workers, and they were exposed to long hours and night labor without being properly
guaranteed their labor rights. They had to endure the mental pain of working in hell. As many day labor workers were
assignedtoworkinthestamping-outpolicy,therewasnowaytoavoiddoinginhumanactssuchaspushinglivestockthat
triedtoescapebyusingaforkliftsincetheyhadtofinishtheamountassignedtogettheirdailywages.Andthishasledto
traumaandworse--suicide.
Solution
1.AnimalWelfareandPreventiveVaccines
Asafundamentalmeasureforanimalinfectiousdiseases,insteadofstamping-outpolicy,theproblemshouldbeapproached
throughanimalwelfare.RepresentativeLeesaid,“Ahealthyanimalwithstrongimmunityhasalessinfectiouseffecteven
ifvirusesinvade,”adding,“Inanenvironmentwherelayinghensareraisedinacagewithfactory-stylelivestock,pollution
inthebarnisintensifiedandvirusesandgermshiddeninanunsanitaryenvironmentareboundtoincrease.Thisisserious
animal abuse, and a big reason livestock are vulnerable to animal epidemics.” In other words, factory-style livestock are
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2011, the water quality of groundwater 17 meters underground was 772 PPM based on BOD,* showing a big difference
fromtapwaterofabout120PPM.Itiscontaminatedwiththelevelofleachateinthelandfill(BOD400-800PPM),which
is usually considered the dirtiest water. If leachate leaks and groundwater is contaminated, people who drink it are more
likelytogetsick.Therefore,leachateoutflowintogroundwaterandsoilisdangerous.
*BOD:Theamountofoxygenconsumedwhenmicroorganismsdecomposeorganicmatterinwater.Itistheamountofoxygenrequiredtopurifywater.
3.OutsourcedWork
Until 2014, before the stamping-out policy was outsourced to quarantine or manpower companies, it was mainly local
governmentofficialswhodidthework.However,aftertheoutbreakofAIagaininJanuary2014andwhenthegovernment
officials had to kill 24,772,000 chickens and ducks for 517 days until November of the following year, the Korean
GovernmentEmployees’Unionprotested,saying,“Stoptheforcedmobilizationofpublicofficialstostamping-outpolicy.”
After that, soldiers have been mainly in charge of it, but this time, parents who sent their children to the military have
protested as concerns arose that AI is a waterborne disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans. It became
difficult to mobilize soldiers and eventually the task went to day labor workers from foreign countries. The country has
foundworkersthathavenouniontogeneratebacklashandnoparentstoprotest.Duetotheoutsourcingofthestamping-out
policyprocess,efficiencyhasbecomethehighestvalue,andtothisend,alargenumberofmigrantworkers,whoareeasyto
handlefromthegovernment’spointofview,havebeenmobilized.
Thereasonwhyquarantineandservicecompaniesprefermigrantworkersisbecauseoftheirefficiency.Accordingtoan
interview between Hankyoreh and Chung Sang-chul, CEO of a service company, “Koreans don’t do this work very often.
First of all, Korean people don’t listen. If we use foreign workers, those who can’t work, we just don’t use them from the
next day. If you starve them for a few days, they will come and get a place next time. I’m gradually filtering out people.
Ahundredpeoplewillcomeand10peoplewillquit,and10morewillparticipate,andlateronlyelitetroopswillbeleft,”
expressing the situation of migrant workers who have no choice but to participate in stamping-out policy. As such, no
one spoke out for foreign day labor workers, and they were exposed to long hours and night labor without being properly
guaranteed their labor rights. They had to endure the mental pain of working in hell. As many day labor workers were
assignedtoworkinthestamping-outpolicy,therewasnowaytoavoiddoinginhumanactssuchaspushinglivestockthat
triedtoescapebyusingaforkliftsincetheyhadtofinishtheamountassignedtogettheirdailywages.Andthishasledto
traumaandworse--suicide.
Solution
1.AnimalWelfareandPreventiveVaccines
Asafundamentalmeasureforanimalinfectiousdiseases,insteadofstamping-outpolicy,theproblemshouldbeapproached
throughanimalwelfare.RepresentativeLeesaid,“Ahealthyanimalwithstrongimmunityhasalessinfectiouseffecteven
ifvirusesinvade,”adding,“Inanenvironmentwherelayinghensareraisedinacagewithfactory-stylelivestock,pollution
inthebarnisintensifiedandvirusesandgermshiddeninanunsanitaryenvironmentareboundtoincrease.Thisisserious
animal abuse, and a big reason livestock are vulnerable to animal epidemics.” In other words, factory-style livestock are
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