South Korea has agreed to hire Nepali workers on the basis of recently enforced employment-permission system (EPS).
The two countries are scheduled to ink an agreement in this regard in March.
Visiting Korean Labour Minister Lee Sang Soo talking to journalists after the bilateral meeting with his Nepali counterpart, Ramesh Lekhak, in Kathmandu, Jan 28 07, Sunday. nepalnews.com/rh
Visiting Korean Labour Minister Lee Sang Soo talking to journalists after the…
South Korean labour minister Lee Sang Soo, who is on a three-day official visit to Nepal, on Sunday expressed satisfaction over Nepal’s preparations to become a source country for labour and enter into EPS.
In a brief meeting with journalists after ministerial level bilateral talks on Sunday, Lee said that South Korea is keen to import skilled technical work force from Nepal.
Ramesh Lekhak, state minister for labour and transport management, who led the Nepali delegation, is also anticipating the bilateral MoU to be signed soon. “South Korea is very positive on our requests and expressed satisfaction over our preparations,” Lekhak said.
He also informed that the government would inform potential candidates about job opportunities and ask them to take part in training as per the demand from South Korea.
The training will include skill development, Korean language and working environment.
As per the agreement, Nepal will have to recommend five times the names demanded by the Korean government. The Korean side will then sort-out the workers.
Once the EPS is in place, Nepali workers’ wage and facilities will be at par with their Korean counterparts.
The agreement is also expected to end the anomalies witnessed during the time the privately-run manpower agencies were allowed to handle those seeking jobs in Korea.
Taking lessons from the previous controversy in selecting and sending labourers, Korea this time has adopted a new procedure of ‘public sending system’ under which selection and exporting labourers will be done by the source country instead of manpower agencies.
Korea is a lucrative market for Nepali foreign job seekers due to good salary.