The EPS workers, who completed their three-year job term in South Korea and returned with the employment permit from job centre of Human Resource Department can apply for reentry, the department said.

 

According to the rule, EPS returnees should have to register themselves in EPS Nepal office within seven days of return from South Korea. “They have to apply with copies of citizenship, job contract, medical report and passport,” said director at the EPS Nepal office Mahesh Acharya. “They have to wait for a job call from South Korean employer.”

 

South Korea — the most lucrative destination of Nepali workers — has introduced reentry system in July along with other changes in the EPS process. The destination has increased job tenure from three years to four year and 10 months and mandatory submission of police report.

 

“The provisions were applied to all EPS workers from the 15 source countries,” he said. 

 

About 13,000 Nepalis have been working in South Korea and nearly 10,000 of them have been recruited through EPS process. EPS workers have been earning around $1,000 (Rs 88,000) in a month. Low cost of job process has attracted thousands of youths to join the South Korean job.

 

Last year, about 51,000 youths, aged between 18 and 39 years, had applied for the job but only 15,298 passed the language test — Test of Proficiency in Korean — that is Iron Gate to join lucrative job that pays around Rs 5 million rupees in four years and 10 months job tenure.