Source: Undesnii Shuudan                          Date: 02 August, 2010

Mr. Yu Myon Su, Resident Representative of Industrial and Human Resource Department of the Republic of Korea in Mongolia, has ruled out relaxing the language test criterion for Mongolians seeking a job in South Korea. Mr. Yu was on a visit to Mongolia to discuss three demands put forward by the Mongolian Ministry of Social welfare and Labor to South Korea’s Ministry of Labor. One of these was to overlook lack of language skills among those otherwise met all requirements to work in South Korea.

Mr. Yu explained that South Korea accepted workers from 15 countries and could not be expected to relax its standards for any one country. This year Korea declared that 3,100 Mongolians had passed the Korean language examination. They would have to go through a health test and then be enlisted on the labor exchange of Korea. “It is impossible to accept the Mongolian proposal that everybody who scored more than 80 in the language test should be permitted to take the health test, and, on passing that, should be registered at our labor exchange,” Mr. Yu said, explaining that increasing the number of workers from any country would disrupt the carefully constructed quota system affecting 15 countries.