Ministry of Employment and Labor will give a special Korean test for the foreign workers who volunteered to return before expiry of their employment permit

Ministry of Employment and Labor will give a special Korean test for the foreign workers who volunteered to return before expiry of their employment permit

The Ministry of Employment and Labor is going to offer special tests on the Korean language for the foreign workers who want to reenter Korea after having volunteered to leave the country before maturity of their employment permit, starting from December this year.

In accordance with the anti-settlement principle under the Employment Permit System, a foreign worker who has arrived in Korea with an employment permit must leave the country upon maturity of the permit (lasting up to 4 years and 10 months). The System, however, offers no preference to the foreign workers who want to reenter the country, simply requiring them to wait at least 6 months and go through the same entry process as the first-time comers.

The Korean language tests for newcomers are given on an irregular basis and even those who have passed the test have to wait a long time before entry. This is why the foreign workers who want to work for additional years in Korea are reluctant to return to their mother country. Moreover, the employers of foreign workers have demanded that they should be allowed to retain skilled foreign workers.

In response, the Ministry of Employment and Labor has decided to improve the Employment Permit System by resolving the barrier to reentry and accommodating employers’ demand for skilled workforce. The consequence is that foreign workers who want to reenter Korea will be able to take a fast track right after the end of the reentry limit period, although the statutory limit period will remain in force.

The special Korean tests will be available only to the foreign workers who have left Korea before expiry of their employment permit and want to reenter the country, and will be regularly given once or more per quarter at the designated CBT (computer-based test) sites in the sending countries. The special tests will be first conducted on a pilot basis in Thailand and Vietnam in December this year, and then will be extended over to other sending countries in next year.

The successful applicants of the tests will go through a faster process of reentry than the ordinary process, be exempted from pre-employment training, and be allowed to work in the workplace where they had worked before departure so long as they had worked for one year or longer at the last workplace and the employer wants to rehire them.

The number of foreign workers who are supposed to leave Korea due to expiry of their employment permit is estimated at 5,000 in 2010; 34,000 in 2011; and 67,000 in 2012.

Director General LEE, Jae Gap of the Employment Policy Office at the Ministry of Employment and Labor expects that “the revised provisions will help reduce the number of illegal foreign workers sharply and secure skilled workforce for employers”, adding that “the government will expand the preferred reentry measures for the foreign workers who have chosen to leave Korea instead of staying illegally in the country”.

kasulyap ito naba ung resulta ng pinasa nilang bill???

kailan pwede pa line up san pwede mag inquire di ba tayo pwede na nxtmonth badtrip naman january expired na ako... paano pag nakauwi na sa pinas di na makakuha ng exam nag conduct din ba sa pinas...?

magandang balita sana ito pero di malinaw di naka lagay ang qualification kung sino p ang pwede....ito b at may age limit p rin tulad ng new comers?. medyo marami na kasi ang over age na mag tatapos so kung di man lang din makakapasa sa qualification medyo di rin pwede...

sabi po ng interpreter sa hwaseong migrant center may age limit din po, di na pwede above 39

ganun ba? ayos toh sana pwede sa pinas uwi na lang tayo

curious lang ako kung cumulative ba yung length of service ko kasi yung company namin palit ng palit ng pangalan every 10 months nalang pero pareho parin ung boss namin, mga superiors, at trabaho....company name lang ang pinagkaiba....isang taon at mahigit lang pa naman ang pedi marehire

baka ok lang yun kabayan yun parin employer nyo kasi di naman kayo pirma ulit bago contract at dna man kayo narelis at renew ulit pag kapalit ng pangalan ng kumopanya so ibig sabihin wala kayo problema jan kung anu naumpisahan nyon employer yun pa rin hangang sa huli

sbreg_8798 wrote:sabi po ng interpreter sa hwaseong migrant center may age limit din po, di na pwede above 39

kabayan kung totoong may age limit cgurado ako dami pa ding mag t tnt kc sa pagka2alam ko halos over age na ung mag pi finish ng contract nila sa 2012, ung mga inabot ng six years d2.. tulad d2 sa trabaho ko may kasama ako na mag 40 years old na cya at end na din ng contract nya nxt year, pero masipag at magaling cyang magtrabaho kaya gustong gusto cya ng aming employer, kinausap cya ng sajang nmin, na kung ala na daw ibang chance para cya makabalik d2 sa korea ay mag tnt na lng daw cya tapos d2 p din smin sya magtatrabaho...dami kc mag e end ng contract nxt year ay mga chare sa trabaho lalo na ung mga inabot ng 6 year d2, kaya sure dami ganito case na pwede mangyari sa 2012

san po CBT test na yan,sa pinas po ba o dto korea?

wala pa ppo sa pnas try palng nila sa thaialnd and vietnam.............

if mapasama nrn ang pinas san po site magreregister pra s nsabing exam?

sir..e2 po b ung mga umuwi n ng pinas or asa korea p n mttpos n visa???????

maganda rin naman para sa patapos na kaso di lang malinaw ang qualification..tulad ng edad.. maraming patapos na wala na sa age qualification. pano masasabi na itong mga tao na ito may chance p...anyway goddluck po

gud pm kabayan,sana linawin nman kung my age limit para kumpleto recados..

○ Qualifications for the Test :
- Re-employed foreign workers who voluntarily returned home within their employment period granted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor.
* Only the workers who left Korea (applicable to departures after Jan. 1, 2010) within their lawful employment period are eligible for the trial test.
- Age Requirement : Ages between 18 and 39 (on the closing day of registration)

Thank you miss genniekim questions answered....

Pwede kaya yong sa aking sitwasyon? umuwi ako september this year . 5 years ako sa una kong company
kaso humina kaya nirelease kami . 5 months ako nagwork sa ibang company tapos nagparelease ulit ako. pinabalik ako ng una kong company at doon na natapos ang 6 years ko sa korea . binigyan ako ng papers ng amo ko . then tawagan ko daw syaa para bigyan ng re-employment papers . thanks

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labor update....as of dec.3,2011

ask ko lng po kung wla n po b tlg chance ung mga nktpos ng 6 yrs. pra maumpishan ko n po hnap ng mpg aartistahan maraming ty po