In his article “Beyond co-ethnic solidarity: Mexican and Ecuadorean employment in Korean-owned businesses in New York City”, Kim discusses the relationship between immigrant employers and employees. It is interesting that Korean employers of businesses in the city are hiring less Korean employees and actually more Mexicans and Latinos. Kim says the cost of co-ethnic employment has increased, which is often the case of immigrant groups with high self-employment. One of the reasons Koreans have opted to employ Mexican employees instead of people of their own ethnicity is that Korean employees see the job as temporary.

Considering this unique case of Korean employers not hiring co-ethnically, what do you think are its implications into other parts of the Korean community? Will the Korean employers’ decisions to hire outside their ethnicity create tension within the community or will it affect the community dynamic in other ways?