South Korea is an attractive destinations for students at vocational training schools.

VietNamNet Bridge – Under South Korea’s new licensing system, thousands of Vietnamese workers will go to South Korea in 2009, said Deputy Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thanh Hoa.

Hoa said workers who go to South Korea under the EPS program can immediately work in this country and enjoy the same interests as local workers. Within three years there, foreign workers are allowed to change jobs up to three times with legitimate reasons and enjoy a basic salary under the South Korean government’s rules. They are also protected by labor, risk at work, salary, and repatriation expenditure insurance. When their contracts end, they can be re-employed by Korean businesses.

To go to South Korea, workers must pass a Korean language test and meet some conditions. They also have to pay US $654 to complete formalities and US $500 for certain kinds of insurance.

The subjects to the EPS program are those who have just finished their military duty, students of vocational secondary schools, and ordinary workers.

Workers can earn between US $850-$1,100 per month.

As of January 1, 2009, the basic salary of workers in South Korea increases to 4,000 won per hour from 3,770, 836,000 won per week for a forty hour week, and 904,000 won for a 44-hour week. The exchange is US $1 equals 1,300 won.

Hoa said in 2009, Vietnam can send 15,000 or more workers to this market.

In 2007, Vietnamese workers in South Korea transferred more than US $552 million to Vietnam.

(Source: TP)