Skill test for job-seekers in Korea begins

The 5-day skill test for South Korea- bound Bangladeshis started in the city on Friday with some 571 job seekers taking part in the programme.
HRD Korea Bangladesh Employment Permit System (EPS) Centre has organised the skill test programme that will continue till February 25 at the Bangladesh-Korea Technical Training Centre.
Director of the EPS Centre Lee Min-Hwa hoped the Bangladeshi workers will do good result in the skill test to get more employments in his country, said a press release.
Mr Lee said Korea will recruit more workers from Bangladesh if the workers do not change their jobs.
Some 10,000 Bangladeshi workers have so far got jobs in South Korea through a government-to-government initiative under the EPS since 2008.
Bangladesh inked a deal on the EPS with the Korean government on June 4, 2007 that set the guidelines of sending manpower from Bangladesh to Korea.
The first batch of Bangladeshi workers under the EPS went to South Korea on June 3, 2008. Since then, Bangladeshi workers are going to Korea with employment on a regular basis.
According to the Korean labour standard act every local and foreign worker gets equal rights in getting salary and insurance coverage. Most of the Korean employers provide food and accommodation for the foreign workers.
Besides, the Korea returnee workers get job in Korean companies at their home country. Nearly 30 Bangladeshi workers got job in 2013 and 15 in 2014 under such facilities.