Thousands of Vietnamese agricultural labourers go to work in RoK
Wednesday, 06/03/2019 16:44 (GMT+7)
The Center of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labor, War-Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) will work with the Human Resources Development Service of Korea (HRD Korea) to organize a Korean language exam for candidates to be agricultural labourers working in the Republic of Korea (RoK).
Photo for illustration (Source: VGP)
The exam will take place on March 11
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th to select 1,500 labourers from poor districts and extremely disadvantaged coastal and island communes, under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in early 2018 sending Vietnamese labourers to the RoK under the Employment Permit System (EPS).
This was the 6th time Vietnam and the RoK signed MoU on EPS, the previous times in 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012 and 2016. The 2018 MoU is valid for two years.
The signing of MoU has opened up many opportunities for Vietnamese labourers. Last year, over 6,500 Vietnamese went to work in the RoK, ranking the market only after Japan and Taiwan (China)./.
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