Lai Chau workers receive help before going to RoK

The Employment Service Centre in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau and the MAIEDU Training Consultant Joint Stock Company provided a month-long Korean language training and career orientation for 47 local workers who will go to work in Mungyeong city, North Gyeongsang province, the Republic of Korea (RoK), later this year.

As seasonal workers, they will work mainly in agriculture such as growing potatoe, mustard green, melon, chili, and onion, and harvesting vegetables, tubers, and fruits with a monthly salary of 25-40 million VND (986-1,580 USD), not including overtime.

Ealier this year, 63 workers got such jobs there.

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Workers learn Korean at the Employment Service Centre in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau before going to the RoK. (Photo: VNA)

According to the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, currently many rural workers in districts across the province have no jobs while it’s harvest time in the RoK. Authorities of Lai Chau province and Mungyeong city signed a labour cooperation agreement under which the Korean side accepted seasonal workers from Lai Chau.

In 2022, the Vietnamese Government issued a resolution on continuing a pilot programme on sending seasonal Vietnamese workers to the RoK through cooperation agreements between localities of the two countries in the 2022-2027 period./.

VNA

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