초록 열기/닫기 버튼
This study attempts to find role of Korean miners in the labor market of the German coal industry. Their contribution to the German economy has been underestimated, because they were not official workers. In the 1960s the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Korea joined an agreement on a program of temporary employment of Korean miners in the German coal mining, which aimed to enhance the professional knowledge of Korean miners. This was a kind of development aid. But their employment had to do with the structural change of the German coal industry, which began in the late 1950s and lasted until the early 1980s. Korean miners helped to keep the pace of structural change for all stakeholder in the region. In this sense they were “butter workers” for the social tempo and the social peace. This study tries to prove it with the historical sources in the German archives.
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Korean miners, migration, labor market, social tempo, transnational migrants
