SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The increase in the number of foreign workers does not result in domestic employees losing jobs — instead, it promotes the relocation of domestic workers towards duties where communication skills are important, South Korea’s central bank said. The influx of foreign workers can impact not only the employment and wages [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign workers in South Korea rebounded this year after two consecutive years of decline as the job market has recovered amid the economic recovery, data showed Tuesday. The number of foreign workers came to 855,000 as of May, up 7,000 or 0.9 percent from the previous [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners seeking employment in South Korea under the Employment Permit System (EPS) will be offered access to a free online Korean language course starting next year, a state-run resource development company said Monday. The Human Resources Development Service of Korea said it has forged a partnership with King Sejong [...]
HWASEONG, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Hwaseong, south of Seoul, announced that it will start offering a one-stop service for unregistered foreign workers to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. Any unregistered foreign worker can visit a nearby COVID-19 testing center to receive a vaccination without having to make a prior reservation. Foreigners over 30 [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday announced a decision to extend the period of stay for about 115,000 foreign migrant workers by one year in a bid to relieve labor shortages at small businesses and in farming and fishing communities. The labor and justice ministries said that the temporary extension of [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The state human rights watchdog on Tuesday urged local governments to withdraw their orders for migrant workers to undergo mandatory coronavirus testing, calling it “discriminatory against foreigners.” Some local governments, including Seoul and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province, issued such administrative orders earlier this month amid spikes in infections in [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is pushing to revise local immigration laws to allow migrant workers from overseas to land parcel sorting jobs amid growing concerns over the industry’s manpower shortage and notoriously long work hours, officials said Tuesday. The Ministry of Justice recently preannounced a revision of an enforcement decree on [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign nationals employed by farms and fisheries will be eligible for health insurance upon arrival in the country, the labor ministry said Tuesday. The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced a set of measures aimed at improving working conditions of foreigners, jointly with the ministries of health, agriculture, and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Concerns are rising over instances in which foreign workers have been blamed for the outbreak of the coronavirus in a number of factories. The Central Disease Control Headquarters reported that recent COVID-19 outbreaks in plants were primarily caused by staff-to-staff infections, explaining that closed and concentrated working environment and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has banned employers from offering greenhouses as dormitories for foreign workers entering the country on temporary work permits. Officials from the Ministry of Employment and Labor announced that they will root out the practice of offering greenhouses as dormitories for foreign workers this year, reflecting complaints made [...]