외국인 선원취업제도의 실태와 급여차별

The aim of this paper is to introduce the type of foreign seafarers in Korea, the employment procedures and current statuses by their countries of origin, and analyze the structural causes of the illegal stay which is predominant among crew employees(E-10), compared with the unskilled foreign workers under the employment permit system(E-9). Overall, this paper notes that the relatively severe working conditions of foreign seafarers employed in Korea through ‘crew employee’ are one of the direct causes of increasing illegal stay rate, analyzing specific cases regarding discrimination in minimum wage and accident compensation. It also points out that the labor union composed of domestic crew which is not even in a position to represent foreign seafarers actively contribute to discrimination of foreign seafarers and obtains unjust profits from it. This paper concludes, suggesting an institutional solution, that there is an urgent need to unify the utilization systems of foreign seafarers into the employment permit system.