Kaesong Industrial Complex Reopens after 5 Months of Closure

 

At 8 am on the day, 821 South Korean managers and office workers passed through the customs, immigration, and quarantine area to go to work in Kaesong. The capacity utilization ratio for the total 123 plants, most of which make low-end goods such as shoes, clothes, and watches, on the first day of resumption was about 50-60 percent.

 

Separately, the representatives from the both Koreas held at 10 am the third Kaesong Industrial Complex joint committee meeting and discussed issues such as the workers' rights to stay in Kaesong and move freely between north and south. A South Korean government official said, "The focus of today's talks was on the right of legal aid for the workers there. Even though the North said it would grant the workers the legal right, we talked about the details of it as the two regimes have different legal frameworks."