KB Kookmin Bank Donates Building for Korean CBT Test Center Construction in Myanmar

On the 10th, attendees are taking a commemorative photo at the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the Korean CBT test center held in Yangon, the economic capital of Myanmar. From the fourth person on the left in the photo: Sanghwa Lee, Ambassador of Korea to Myanmar; Daw Moe Moe Su Kyi, Minister of Labor of Yangon Region, Myanmar; Changsoo Choi, Head of Global Business Group at KB Kookmin Bank; U Myo Aung, Deputy Minister of Labor of Myanmar.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kangwook Cho] KB Kookmin Bank announced on the 13th that it held a groundbreaking ceremony on the 10th in Yangon, the economic capital of Myanmar, for the construction of a Korean CBT (Computer-based Test) examination center.

The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by Lee Sang-hwa, Ambassador of Korea to Myanmar; U Myo Aung, Deputy Minister of Labor of Myanmar; Choi Chang-soo, Head of KB Kookmin Bank's Global Business Group; as well as key officials from the Human Resources Development Service of Korea and major Myanmar government agencies.

KB Kookmin Bank and the Human Resources Development Service of Korea signed a memorandum of understanding in September last year to establish a support system for Myanmar dispatched workers and agreed to cooperate to enhance the overall efficiency and convenience of the process of dispatching Myanmar workers to Korea.

The newly constructed Korean CBT examination center will be a four-story building, with the first floor serving as the Myanmar Ministry of Labor’s dispatch administration office, and the second to fourth floors used as Korean language testing rooms. Currently, the testing center is small, limiting the annual number of Korean test takers to about 8,000, but after completion, it will be able to accommodate up to 20,000 test takers annually.

Additionally, a separate menu for dispatched workers will be included in the Myanmar digital banking service to be provided by KB Kookmin Bank. By digitizing the entire process from qualification test application to selection, it is expected to greatly improve the inconvenience of the existing manual selection method.

In his congratulatory speech, CEO Choi Chang-soo said, "This Korean language testing center is expected to greatly contribute to the spread of Korean language education in Myanmar by opening its doors not only to Myanmar workers dispatched to Korea but also to general test takers."

Meanwhile, KB Kookmin Bank has been operating the "KB Korean Language School" in Myanmar since 2013. Through this, it has produced over 1,000 graduates to date and continues to support their employment in Korean companies. It has also built a reputation as a leading social contribution company in Myanmar through steady social contribution activities such as establishing village centers, dispatched worker centers, and construction ministry libraries.

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