Gov't issues English booklet on sexual harassment prevention

SEJONG, Oct. 22 (Yonhap) -- The government has published an English-language booklet on preventing workplace sexual harassment of foreign female workers here, the labor ministry said Wednesday, as many of them are vulnerable due to the language barrier.

The booklet contains examples of behaviors that may constitute sexual harassment, how to deal with such behaviors and a guide to education on the prevention of sexual harassment.

The ministry said it plans to distribute some 20,000 copies to its regional offices, workplaces with many female migrant workers and state-run centers for providing job-training and counseling and other support to foreign workers.

Last year, the ministry published and distributed the same booklet in five other foreign languages -- Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Indonesian and Uzbekis.

As of 2012, South Korea's population of foreign residents came to 1.46 million with around 800,000 of them employed, according to justice ministry figures.
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