Wando-gun Records Highest Number of Foreign Seasonal Workers in Second Half of the Year

Assigned 663 People from the Ministry of Justice, Sequential Deployment by Year-End

Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Shin Woo-cheol) conducted a demand survey targeting local farmers and fishermen who wish to employ foreign seasonal workers in the second half of this year, and received an allocation of 663 foreign seasonal workers from the Ministry of Justice.

Foreign seasonal workers assigned to Wando County last month received preliminary training.
[Photo by Wando County]

With this, Wando-gun has been allocated a total of 1,672 workers, the highest number among the 7,611 allocated in Jeollanam-do when combined with the first half of this year, giving a boost to workforce management.

Currently, about 900 foreign seasonal workers who entered the country by the end of last month are working at farms and fisheries, including kelp-producing households in Wando-gun, and in the second half of the year, they plan to be deployed sequentially according to the employers' demand periods.

In particular, the county plans to thoroughly prepare for the deployment of foreign seasonal workers to prevent labor shortages during the peak installation period of aquaculture facilities such as gim (laver), miyeok (seaweed), dasima (kelp), and tot (seaweed).

A county official said, “We will do our best to solidify the foreign seasonal worker program to ensure smooth labor supply during the peak farming and fishing seasons and to alleviate the difficulties faced by farmers and fishermen due to rising wages.”

Wando = Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyung-pil just8440@asiae.co.kr

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