EPS closed for 20 months, reopening in November
KATHMANDU: NOV. 7 – The Employment Permit System (EPS), which has been closed for 20 months due to the coronavirus epidemic, will be reopened from November. South Korea, which has stopped taking workers to prevent epidemics, will open the EPS process from next November.
According to the Korean Ministry of Labor, the process of hiring workers from all 16 countries, including Nepal, going to Korea through EPS will start in the last week of November.
More than 50,000 workers go to South Korea every year through EPS. But as soon as the coronavirus epidemic began, the whole process was halted. Due to the absence of foreign workers, there is a shortage of workers in the agricultural and productive sectors.
The Korean government is now easing the ban on coronavirus, saying 80 percent of its citizens have been vaccinated against coronavirus for the first time and 75.5 percent have received the full dose.
