Sri Lankan Workers Who Rescued Korean Pilot Win Permanent Residency
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The Ministry of Justice granted long-term stay status as skilled workers (E-7-4) to two Sri Lankan workers who rescued an Air Force pilot who crashed near Jebudo, Hwaseong City in 2022. This is intended to show due respect to foreigners who saved the lives of others, and to enhance trust within domestic society and support stable stay for the contributors.
Sri Lankan workers who rescued Korean pilot win permanent residency
When an F-4E Phantom fighter jet plummeted into the waters off Hwaseong in August 2022, the two Air Force pilots aboard managed to eject just moments before impact. Floating in the choppy sea with fuel and thick smoke drifting across the waves, their immediate survival depended on whoever might reach them first. Help came not from a military vessel, but from a small local fishing boat crewed by two migrant workers from Sri Lanka. Four years afte…
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Yun-seon = Sri Lankan national workers who rescued the Air Force fighter pilot who crashed into the West Sea in 2022 are staying in Korea for a long period...
Four years after saving Korean pilots, Sri Lankan workers gain long-term visas
Four years ago, three Sri Lankan migrant workers aboard a fishing boat off South Korea’s western coast spotted two Air Force pilots in the Yellow Sea after their fighter jet caught fire and crashed. Working with the boat’s South Korean captain, they pulled the pilots from the water and brought them to safety. On Friday, that act of rescue helped secure a longer future in South Korea for two of the men. The Justice Ministry said it had granted th…
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