RoK Offers One-year Extension for Stranded Vietnamese Workers

VGP - The Republic of Korea (RoK) on April 13 announced a decision to extend the period of stay for about 115,000 foreign migrant workers, including those from Viet Nam, by one year in a bid to relieve labor shortages in small businesses and in the farming and fishing sectors.

April 13, 2021 5:33 PM GMT+7

The temporary extension of stay will apply to the E-9 non-professional employment and H-2 visiting employment visa holders, whose period of staying and working in the RoK is set to expire between April 13 and December 31.

Arrivals of H-2 visa holders also dived from 63,339 to 6,044 in the same period.

Thus, the number of E-9 visa holders staying in the RoK stood at 237,000 as of the end of last year, marking a fall of 14.4% from 277,000 a year earlier, while H-2 visa workers also shrank 31.4 percent from 226,000 to 155,000.

By Hoang Ha