SEOUL: South Korea are taking in 52,000 staff from sixteen totally different countries, as well as Nepal, in 2021.
A gathering of the South Korean Government’s Migrant staff Quota Determination Committee created this call here on Wednesday.
The committee fastened 52,000 because the quota for migrant workers under the utilization allow System (EPS) for 2021.
This quota is lesser by 4,000 than the quota allotted last year. 30,909 migrant workers among the quota of migrant staff for 2020 haven’t been able to come back to peninsula for work because of COVID-19 pandemic.
Out of the quota of 52,000 migrant workers fastened for 2021, 37,700 are taken in production sector, 6,400 will be utilized in agriculture sector, 3,000 in fishery, 1,800 in construction sector, and a hundred workers will be employed within the service sector (collection and segregation of scrap).
40,000 migrant workers from this quota would be newcomers whereas 12,000 would be committed (committed re-entry) migrant workers.
The Committee aforesaid employment allow would be issued to 22,000 workers till April next year.