South Korean government will pay $200-million to pay for 4,000 workers
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The Pentagon said on Tuesday that it had accepted a proposal from South Korea for it to temporarily fund thousands of Korean workers at U.S. bases who were put on unpaid leave this year.
In a statement, the Pentagon said the agreement meant South Korea would pay more than $200-million to fund 4,000 Korean workers through to the end of this year.“This decision enables a more equitable sharing of the employee labour burden by the ROK and the U.S.,” the Pentagon said, referring to South Korea by the initials of its official name, the Republic of Korea.
South Korea’s Ministry of Defence said it welcomed the Pentagon’s decision to end the furlough for the workers. South Korea and the United States are embroiled in a disagreement dating back almost two years over how much each should pay to support the roughly 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War that ended in an armistice, rather than a peace treaty.
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