Apparently the South Korean authorities decided to suspend work visas for Vietnamese workers due to rampant illegal immigration:
No more Vietnamese workers would be sent to South Korea this year, according to the Vietnam’s Overseas Worker Centre under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Phan Van Minh, director of the centre, said that South Korea has stopped recruiting new Vietnamese workers.
“From now until the end of this year, only loyal workers who have worked for at least four years and ten months at a South Korean enterprise without quitting or switching jobs, and those who have finished their labour contracts and returned to Vietnam, will be eligible to return to the country,” Minh said.
Since last December, the centre has received more than 13,900 applications from Vietnamese workers, and about 2,800 have been selected by South Korean employers.
The rest must wait until next year, he said, adding that South Korea had announced that Vietnam would be one of 15 countries with a recruitment quota of 62,000 next year.
More than 560 workers meet the criteria to return to South Korea, of which 430 have registered to go and 210 have been granted visas.
Minh said that the regulation took effect this July and aimed to tackle the inflow of illegal immigrant workers to the country.
Figures from the ministry last month showed that about 75,000 Vietnamese workers were working in South Korea, 15,000 of whom illegally cancelled their labour contracts to work for other employers. [AsiaOne]
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9:13 am on October 2nd, 2012 1
Why do Vietnamese workers need to go to South Korea? This opinion piece by Rob Cox at Reuters doesn’t consider that particular question, but it does say that the Vietnamese economy is fizzling because of corruption and incompetence.
10:13 am on October 2nd, 2012 2
What a joke. It is already October. There’s only three more months left in the year, and they’re making it look as if this is a major story. In only in three more months, this thing will be started all over again, right from the beginning.
Before they can even apply for jobs in Korea, they must pass the Korean language exam. Just look at the crowds lined up outside the Korean embassies, and you can see where Korea is going to be in few years down the road, with the country run over and smothered by South East Asians.
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This is the result and fault of Koreans following Western Liberalism, thinking it’s progress.
1:10 pm on October 2nd, 2012 3
Glans, that Reuters article seems to imply that Korean investors, like other foreign investors, are closing factories in Vietnam, after they realized they had been deceived by their Vietnamese business partners.
Waits for Bobby Ray to comment on how far the Vietnamese dong is able to go in Korea.
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1:44 pm on October 2nd, 2012 4
But pity those Korean businessmen who treat their foreign workers so honestly. (Uh, saracasm).
3:47 pm on October 2nd, 2012 5
“Businessmen”
And government through raids(Google), hostage holding(Lone Star), etc…
6:18 pm on October 2nd, 2012 6
Why did they seek employment elsewhere? Most often, it’s because of abuse.
7:06 pm on October 2nd, 2012 7
Yeah right. They are so abused that millions line up outside to take Korean language exams every year so that they can come to Korea and get abused. That makes sense.
8:36 pm on October 2nd, 2012 8
Tom, reading comprehension fail (again) of Teadrinker’s comment.
Teadrinker was remarking that Viet workers in Korea that have abusive employers “leave” to find non-abusive (or at least less abusive) Korean employers.
Viet workers “leave” Vietnam for Korea is for the money, just as Korean workers “leave” Korea for Calgary and oil money.
By “leave”, I mean they will return to Vietnam and Korea after making sufficient money. Though some, like Tom, never leave Toronto.
Toronto having a humungous Koreatown and all; where reading comprehension is not an essential skill.