Isaan migrant worker meets his final fate on a South Korean pig farm

Thai workers die in South Korea the most in the world, at least 522 cases died in the last 6 years, and 86% of them are ‘little ghosts’. One of them was Boonchu Prawasanang native from Khon Kaen province. 

At the advanced age of 57, Boonchu Prawasanang, a native of Khon Kaen’s Waeng Noi district,  decided to spend some of his golden years laboring near the city of Pocheon, in northern South Korea.

Khon Kaen is 3,372 kilometers from Pocheon. It was there, so far from home, that in his 67th summer, Boonchu’s lifeless body was found lying near a pig farm in the foreign city.

His death is tragic. Worse, reports from South Korean media suggest that Boonchu’s living quarters was so appalling that it was basically a pig sty itself.

Mali Prawasenang, Boonchu’s wife, said every time she talked with her late husband on the phone, he would say that his work was going well and…