ROK suspends entry of Vietnam migrant workers

SEOUL, Sept 29 (AFP): South Korea has temporarily stopped accepting new migrant workers from Vietnam because about 2,000 Vietnamese have failed to leave after their work visas expired, an official said Wednesday. Seoul since August has stopped offering Vietnamese the Korean-language tests which prospective migrant workers must take, a labour ministry official said, urging Hanoi to work harder to bring its workers back home. More than 4,100 Vietnamese workers who entered the South in 2004 and 2005 were supposed to leave between January to August this year under the terms of their work visas that allowed them to stay up to six years.