HD Hyundai Heavy Industries said Monday it will fully refund meal costs it had deducted from foreign workers for years, after facing resistance from migrant employees over a newly proposed wage system. The shipbuilder announced a package of measures following consultations on improving working conditions for foreign workers from last week. Under the revised plan, the company will provide free breakfast, lunch and dinner to all foreign workers and retroactively reimburse meal deductions made since 2023, when the company began offering three free meals a day to both direct employees and subcontractor workers. The average refund is estimated at around 7 million won ($4,600) per worker. The company said it will also revise its bonus system by scrapping performance-based differential payments and instead providing equal bonuses to all foreign workers. The measures come after foreign workers bristled at the company's proposed wage overhaul. Under the original proposal, HD Hyundai Heavy planned to abolish the monthly 210,000 won ($137) meal deduction but lower the base monthly salary by 168,400