By Xinhua,
Dhaka : South Korea will recruit over 7,000 skilled and semi-skilled workers from Bangladesh in the next 16 months, the country’s ambassador to Bangladesh said here on Monday.
Ambassador Suk-Bum Park said around 3,000 Bangladeshis would get jobs in South Korea’s construction, textile, fisheries, agriculture, electronics and machinery sectors this year and the rest in 2009.
“We would recruit around 3,000 workers under the first ‘Employment Permit System (EPS)’ system this year. In 2009, the number of recruitment will be around 4,000,” he said.
He said, “We need a huge number of overseas workers as the population growth in South Korea has become stagnant. There are jobs available in almost every sector.”
Over 5.6 million Bangladeshis are now living and working in more than 100 countries in the world. Southeast Asian countries and the Middle East countries are the main destinations.