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Vietnam’s labor authorities have temporarily banned people from 23 wards from applying to work in South Korea after many workers from these wards quit jobs or overstayed in South Korea after their contract expired.

The South Korean Human Resource Development Service will resume the Korean language test for Vietnamese workers in December, announced a high official from the Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Soci

HCM CITY — Although companies located in industrial parks (IP) and export processing zones (EPZ) in HCM City have increased wages and allowances, workers still find it difficult to make ends meet, according to a recent report by the city Party Committee.

HA NOI — Labour migration might be considered a good option to help many farmers climb out of poverty but residents in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau have proven difficult to convince.

Dao Cong Hai, vice head of the Department for Management of Overseas Labor, told VietNamNet that the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has assigned the agency--the Center for Overseas Labor and the Management Board of Vietnamese Workers in South Korea, to compile a plan to prevent Vietnamese guest workers from illegally residing and

HA NOI — As a draft decree recognising domestic work awaits Government approval, the issue continues to draw attention. Dang Duc San, head of the Legislation Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, said the draft aimed to protect people such as maids and nannies who were making a living

The Korean Ministry of Labor calculates that approximately 8,700 Vietnamese laborers are illegally staying in Korea, amounting to the largest number of illegal resident overseas laborers.

HA NOI — The South Korean Ministry of Employment and Labour has decided to put off organising Korean language tests for prospective Vietnamese guest workers with no specified date for resumption. In the latest case, a language test, supposed to occur on August in Viet Nam, had been postponed.