Shaikh said that Pakistan dispatched around 1,000 workers to Korea. ILLUSTRATION: JAMAL KHURSHID
A batch of 60 selected Pakistani workers was undergoing pre-departure training in Overseas Employment Corporation (OEC) and was expected to leave Pakistan within a week.
OEC Managing Director Saeed Ahmed Shaikh said that the workers will leave the country by different flights. Shaikh informed that a total of 579 workers had been sent to the Republic of Korea in the first half of the calendar year 2013.
He said that the workers were employed by small and medium enterprises at a monthly salary ranging $1,200-1,500, apart from reimbursement of food and living expenses by the employer. Shaikh said that Pakistan dispatched around 1,000 workers to Korea, adding that the figure will be increased by reducing the number of illegal Pakistani workers in Korea.
The project, under the Employment Permit System (EPS), was helping Pakistani workers to earn a respectable livelihood while ensuring a sizeable foreign remittance to Pakistani economy.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 18th, 2013.
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