Samsung Heavy Industries, Foreign Workers Arrive One After Another... Helping Ease Labor Shortage

Skilled Indonesian Welders Entered on the 31st of Last Month
Expanded to About 1,200 This Year

[Asia Economy Reporter Donghoon Jeong] Samsung Heavy Industries announced on the 2nd that 41 Indonesian welders entered the country through Incheon Airport on the 31st of last month.

This is the largest number of foreign workers entering since the government implemented measures last year to ease restrictions on foreign labor inflow to resolve the manpower shortage in the shipbuilding industry. They are scheduled to be deployed to production sites after completing industrial safety and advanced specialized training at Samsung Heavy Industries' Geoje Shipyard.

The number of foreign workers employed by Samsung Heavy Industries and its partner companies increased to 782 by the end of last year, and this year the intake is planned to expand to around 1,200.

Meanwhile, Samsung Heavy Industries is implementing various customized support measures in preparation. These include dormitories, local cuisine menu options, holiday restaurant operations, and the deployment of professional interpreters. In addition to working conditions such as incentive payments and support for religious events, accident prevention measures are also being carried out, such as producing industrial safety and health education videos in local languages for training purposes.

A Samsung Heavy Industries official stated, "We have formed a production workforce recruitment task force and plan to actively respond to hiring not only domestic workers but also foreign specialists."

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