SEOUL — South Korea will enhance its annual quota of visas for expert staff to greater than 30,000 this yr from 2,000 a yr in the past, to assist corporations battling a workers crunch, the justice minister mentioned on Wednesday.
With youthful South Koreans reluctant to take up blue-collar jobs, the economic and farming sectors of Asia’s fourth-largest financial system are struggling to fill vacancies.
“As we are expanding the number by 30-fold at once…there will be no talk of foreigners unable to come due to insufficient quota,” the presidential workplace quoted Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon as telling a authorities assembly.
The comparability was to the determine of about 1,000 in 2020, the minister added.
South Korea, which initially deliberate a cap of 5,000 for such E-7-4 visas this yr, may even calm down software standards and let corporations rent extra foreigners, the ministry mentioned, in response to trade requests. — Reuters
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