SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will issue its non-professional employment visa to 56,000 foreign workers next year, the same figure set for this year’s quota, government officials said Friday. The government committee on foreign workforce policy finalized its plan for the 2018 E-9 visa quota during its 25th session presided over by [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – As of May of this year, 1.225 million foreigners 15 years old or above had been in South Korea for at least 91 days. Of this group, 53,000 had been approved for a second duration of stay in the previous five years (returned individuals). The economically active population of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A new survey has revealed that the South Korean construction industry will continue to suffer from labor shortages next year without foreign workers. Findings from the survey conducted by the Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association show that the construction industry will need around 1.61 million workers next year. However, the [...]
GOESAN, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — For the people of Goesan County, North Chungcheong Province, the period of “gimjang” or kimchi-making in November is the most critical time of the year. The sky-high demand from urban populations for Goesan’s specialty, salted cabbage, has the region seeing healthy yearly returns on its leafy vegetables. Just last [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign workers walked a red carpet strewn with flowers at Incheon International Airport yesterday as employees from the Human Resources Development Service of Korea and the embassies of Thailand, and Vietnam cheered on. The ceremony was held for five workers who had completed the maximum duration of nine years [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will ease regulations on visa screening procedures for young foreigners who get jobs at selected manufacturing businesses in a way to tackle the labor shortage, the government said Monday. Foreign students who are studying in South Korea and want to work in the country’s “root” industries such [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting next year, foreign laborers in Korea will no longer benefit from a policy that allowed them to receive medical treatment for free, and will instead have to pay 20 percent of the total expense. Laborers with foreign citizenship used to receive up to 10 million won ($8,500) for their [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A ruthless employer has chosen to pay his foreign workers their overdue wages with 22,000 coins. Foreign workers from Uzbekistan who worked at a construction site in South Gyeongsang Province’s Changnyeong County were given unpaid wages of 4.4 million won on June 9, all in coins. The builder gave them [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The employment rate for foreigners in South Korea edged up in 2015 from the previous year amid a steady influx of foreign nationals into the country, data showed Thursday. Of the more than 1.37 million foreign residents aged 15 or older, about 938,000 were working as of May this [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that Koreans show the highest level of dislike towards foreign workers and immigrants among other major countries. According to Choi Seung-moon, an assistant researcher at the Korea Institute of Public Finance, who analyzed the “World Values Survey,” Korean society clearly shows struggles related to economic [...]