Labourers go to work in the RoK (Photo: Dolab)
According to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), currently, the total number of Vietnamese workers working in the RoK under EPS is 28,500.
On February 1, 2021, Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung signed an extension of the Memorandum of Understanding on the EPS program with the Korean Ministry of Employment and Labor. On that basis, the two sides are actively removing obstacles to bring nearly 6,500 employees selected from 2020 to work in the RoK, and introduce 5,416 applications tested in 2019-2020 but not yet selected.
Previously, the EPS program has been implemented since 2004. Up to now, it has attracted more than 110,000 laborers from our country to work in the RoK.
The above information was shared by MOLISA Deputy Minister Nguyen Ba Hoan at the Conference "Meet Korea 2022" taking place in Thanh Hoa recently.
The RoK is currently one of Vietnam's key overseas markets. It is forecasted that the number of Vietnamese workers in this country will continue to increase rapidly when it implements a new entry policy from April 1.
According to MOLISA Deputy Minister Nguyen Ba Hoan, in recent years, Korean businesses have supported the training of Vietnamese candidates and experts to participate in the World Vocational Skills Competition, bringing back the first world skill medals. The Republic of Korea has also strengthened technical support and guaranteed conditions for Vietnam's national vocational skills assessment and certification system through the project "Strengthening the capacity of the assessment system for vocational skills certification” funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
In 2021, the whole country had more than 45,000 workers going to work abroad. The Korean market attracts 1,036 Vietnamese workers, ranking third among countries and territories receiving Vietnamese workers.
In 2021, Vietnam and the RoK signed a bilateral agreement on social insurance, which contributes to protecting the legitimate rights and interests of workers of the two countries, including the right and obligation to participate in social insurance; thereby, aiming to help employees avoid paying social insurance twice. At the same time, the period of social insurance payment will be mutually recognized by the two countries./.