A meeting held by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to discuss this year’s Korean EPS exams for Vietnamese workers. (Photo: vov.vn)Hanoi (VNA) – The language and skills exams for Vietnamese workers wishingto work in the Republic of Korea will be held this year between June andSeptember, the Department of Overseas Labour Management announced last week.
The Employment Permit System(EPS) includes three exams on paper, replacing the computer exams used inprevious years.
The Korean Ministry ofEmployment and Labour’s Human Resources Development Service (HRD) will beresponsible for preparing the test, managing and marking it and publishingresults.
DangSi Dung, deputy director of the Department of Overseas Labour Management, saidthat of the total recruitment target of 3,600 labourers for 2017, 1,500 willwork in manufacturing, 500 in construction, 800 in agricultural production and800 in fisheries.
HRD will select labourersaccording to their scores, with the threshold being 80 points out of a maximumof 200. For fisheries work, candidates must score 60 or more in the skillsexam, after passing a Korean language contest.
Dung said candidates who violatethe exam rules will be prohibited from taking the test for the next threeyears.
Vietnamese labourers whoreturned home this year from the Republic of Korea in accordance with theircontracts can take the test. In addition, labourers who worked illegally in Koreaafter ending their contracts but returned home between April and December 2016can also take this year’s exam.
Previously, the ministry of laboursuspended the recruitment of labourers from 58 areas that were home to over 60illegal labourers in the RoK. That suspension has been lifted but theVietnamese ministry has banned candidates from 51 other areas this year.
Over the years, the RoK has accepted about 107,000 Vietnamese citizens to live,study or work there. More than 40,000 found work through the EPS Programme. Bythe end of 2016, some 16,100 Vietnamese people were working illegally in the countryafter completing their labour contracts.-VNA
The Employment Permit System(EPS) includes three exams on paper, replacing the computer exams used inprevious years.
The Korean Ministry ofEmployment and Labour’s Human Resources Development Service (HRD) will beresponsible for preparing the test, managing and marking it and publishingresults.
DangSi Dung, deputy director of the Department of Overseas Labour Management, saidthat of the total recruitment target of 3,600 labourers for 2017, 1,500 willwork in manufacturing, 500 in construction, 800 in agricultural production and800 in fisheries.
HRD will select labourersaccording to their scores, with the threshold being 80 points out of a maximumof 200. For fisheries work, candidates must score 60 or more in the skillsexam, after passing a Korean language contest.
Dung said candidates who violatethe exam rules will be prohibited from taking the test for the next threeyears.
Vietnamese labourers whoreturned home this year from the Republic of Korea in accordance with theircontracts can take the test. In addition, labourers who worked illegally in Koreaafter ending their contracts but returned home between April and December 2016can also take this year’s exam.
Previously, the ministry of laboursuspended the recruitment of labourers from 58 areas that were home to over 60illegal labourers in the RoK. That suspension has been lifted but theVietnamese ministry has banned candidates from 51 other areas this year.
Over the years, the RoK has accepted about 107,000 Vietnamese citizens to live,study or work there. More than 40,000 found work through the EPS Programme. Bythe end of 2016, some 16,100 Vietnamese people were working illegally in the countryafter completing their labour contracts.-VNA
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