{
  "id": 5106406,
  "title": "Foreign Worker Count Hits Record High in Korea",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/foreign-worker-count-hits-record-high-in-korea",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-02T13:15:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "BusinessKorea",
    "slug": "businesskorea",
    "url": "https://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=276040"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The number of Employment Permit System (E-9) foreign workers working in domestic industrial sites has exceeded 287,000, breaking the all-time record. Although this is the result of the government significantly expanding the introduction quota to resolve the labor shortage, the overconcentration in s",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}