On the evening of the 20th in Daegu, a candlelight vigil was held in front of the CGV Daegu Hanil Theater to mourn the Vietnamese student Thuận (alias, 25), with her father Bu Van Sung lighting incense beside her portrait. Thuận had come to Korea to work welding to pay tuition and had graduated from Keimyung University’s International Trade Department in February, planning to pursue graduate studies. Two weeks into a new job at a car-parts factory in the Seongseo Industrial Complex, she tried to evade a crackdown and hid behind an outdoor unit on the third floor, texting a friend that she was scared and that immigration officers were entering; her last message arrived at 6:27 pm. Advocates say she endured about three hours in a cramped space before dying in a fall. They point to visa restrictions under the D-10 visa, which provides a limited grace period for job hunting but does not guarantee legal work, noting many students end up in precarious, illegal work at manufacturing plants. Ten other foreign students were arrested at the same factory on the day of her death. Local groups formed the Migrant Workers Death Response Committee and are demanding investigation and reform, with plans for nationwide protests; the government says the crackdown was lawful and that the death occurred after the operation ended.