Whether I Get Fully Recovered and Can Work Like Others Haunts Me All the Time: Experience of Being a Foreign Student Worker Abroad

The purpose of this research is to examine undermined or unnoticed episode of healthcare issue and financial benefits of students in the event of work-related accident abroad, especially of students from developing and least-developed countries. The article cites an account of Lokesh Singh (a pseudonym), a university student worker in X city of South Korea and its outskirt. Lokesh’s account reveals that he was compelled to do sort of work for making tuition fees and living expenses. In so doing, he held an accident that broke his right hand at multiple places. Most importantly, there lacked timely healthcare facility and financial support in the event of work-related accident, especially in lack of legal contract between both the employer and the worker.