[Sept] Korea to invite more migrant workers to relieve labor shortage
Sep 21, 2022
Migrant workers pluck cabbage at a farm in Chungju, Chungcheongbuk-do Province. The Korean government will invite more than 50,000 migrant workers to Korea in the remaining months of this year, as part of its effort to deal with labor shortages in the shipbuilding, manufacturing and service industries. According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the number of job vacancies stood at 230,000 as of June, the highest since February 2018. The labor shor