Labour and Social Protection Representative in Seoul
Labour ministry representative posting in the Republic of Korea
Mongolia's labour and social protection representative posting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, attached to the Employment Permit System (EPS), the government-to-government system under which Mongolian workers take jobs in Korea. The EPS has been in operation since 17 August 2004 and lists Mongolia among its sending countries (Korea Employment Information Service, Employment Permit System introduction).
The scale behind the posting is large: Mongolians in South Korea numbered 55,802 in 2024 (Korean government figures, via Mongolians in South Korea). The identity of the current holder of the Seoul representative post is not yet established from a ministry source - research in progress.
RECORD
The EPS framework - DOCUMENTED
Korea's Employment Permit System has been in operation since 17 August 2004, systematically selecting and managing foreign workers and supporting employers. Its homepage services are provided for 16 sending countries including Mongolia, and workers are selected through the Korean language proficiency test and job-seeker registry (Korea Employment Information Service, Employment Permit System).
The Mongolia-Korea sending MOU - DOCUMENTED
The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Mongolia announced the EPS Korean Language Test in Mongolia under the MOU on the Sending of Workers between the Ministry of Labor of the Republic of Korea and the Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor of Mongolia, stating that all job seekers who want to work in Korea under the EPS should pass the EPS-KLT implemented by the Human Resources Development Service of Korea, and only those who passed may submit a job application for EPS (Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Mongolia, EPS-KLT announcement, for the 13-14 December 2008 test).
EPS principles - DOCUMENTED
The World Bank describes the EPS, introduced in 2004, as aiming to address shortcomings of the earlier Industrial Trainee Scheme: complementarity for small and medium firms, transparency with government agencies managing recruitment, alignment with firms' needs including Korean competency, temporary migration, and no discrimination, with foreign workers receiving four social and labour-protection insurances and a lump-sum pension payout at the end of employment (World Bank, People Move blog, Low-skilled labor migration: Korea's Employment Permit System).
Mongolians in South Korea - 55,802 in 2024 - DOCUMENTED
Mongolians in South Korea numbered 55,802 in 2024. By 2003 there were already 20,000 Mongolians working in South Korea, and five years later the population had grown by 65 percent to an estimated 33,000, or 1.2 percent of Mongolia's entire population at that time (Korean government figures, via Mongolians in South Korea).
Contract quota doubled - REPORTED
Reporting on a meeting at the State House said Korea's Ambassador to Mongolia Choi Jin-won stated the visa issuance period had been reduced from 60 days to 25 days and the quota for employment under contract had been increased from 2,000 to 4,000 (Higher.Careers, reporting the October 2024 meeting).
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