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Dhaka to urge Seoul to legalise workers

Vice-minister Jae-sup arrives this morning

Rafiq Hasan
Dhaka will ask Seoul to increase the workers quota for Bangladeshis and legalise those who are staying in Korea without valid documents during the visit of the South Korean vice minister for foreign affairs and trade.
Vice-minister Kim Jae-sup arrives here this morning on a three-day official visit and will hold talks with State Minister for Foreign Affairs Reaz Rahman and meet State Minister for Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Mohammad Quamrul Islam, according to foreign ministry sources.
Bilateral trade, regional politics and economic issues will also be discussed during the talks. The minister would also attend a regional conference of South Korean diplomats of the South Asia
region in Dhaka.
The Korean minister is scheduled to leave Friday.
Around 30,000 Bangladeshis are now staying in South Korea, of whom 20,000 do not have valid documents, according to official estimates.
Seoul fixed a ceiling of 5,500 Bangladeshi labours for the South Korean job market, but it eventually raised the quota to 8,800 last year. But many Bangladeshis have entered the country illegally and are staying without valid documents.
The South Korean parliament passed an act in August to introduce employment permit system for foreign workers and allow workers staying illegally there to apply for the certificate on employment status and the approval of visa issuance.
Under the law titled Act on Employment of Foreign Workers,
2.27 lakh illegal foreign workers would be legalised.
Foreign workers who have resided in Korea for less than four years would be given legitimate work nermits from Sentember 1 to November 15 this year.
A high-powered committee named Foreign Workers Policy Committee (FWPC) of South Korea would select the countries to be allowed to send their workers.
Seoul will also sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with those countries before introducing the employment permit system.
The small- and medium-sized business in South Korea would be able to cut down on shortage of human resources and foreign workers will enjoy basic rights under labour relations laws, according to the act.