Correspondence
Emails sent to Korean Farm contact addresses failed to deliver, so a letter was mailed FAO the company's Executive Director, Stephanie Rhee.
The letter said that the company's supplier Rizhao Meijia Aquatic Foodstuff Co. Ltd. is a Meijia Group company. The Meijia Group has received persons from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China under the state-imposed labor transfer program. The United Nations, human rights organizations and academic experts agree that since 2018, the Chinese government has systematically subjected Xinjiang’s predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities to forced labor across the country via state-sanctioned employment schemes which use coercive methods in worker enrollment and obstruct freedom to leave employment. The U.S. has prohibited the importation of goods produced from state-imposed forced labor. The letter asked for comment.