Vietnam, RoK to boost ties in vocational education
Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung and Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnam Park Noh-wan on February 18 expressed their wish to further enhance their countries’ cooperation in vocational education.
Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung (R) meets with RoK Ambassador Park Noh-wan in Hanoi on February 18 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Minister of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung and Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) toVietnam Park Noh-wan on February 18 expressed their wish to further enhancetheir countries’ cooperation in vocational education.
At the working session in Hanoi, Ambassador Parksaid he hopes the RoK and Vietnam will continue developing win-win cooperationand the Vietnamese Government will keep support Korean businesses.
He also expected stronger collaboration invocational training, especially for vulnerable groups in society, calling onthe Vietnamese ministry to support the MoU on labour cooperation to be renewedand the social insurance agreement to be signed soon.
About 9,000 Korean firms are operating inVietnam, the diplomat noted, voicing his hope that Vietnam will issue morepolicies to attract businesses from his country.
For his part, Minister Dung said the twocountries have recorded clear progress in labour cooperation. In 2019, morethan 7,000 Vietnamese came to work in the RoK thanks to the RoK’s employmentpermit system implemented on a larger scale and in a transparent manner.
Besides, thanks to both sides’ efforts, the rateof Vietnamese working illegally in the Northeast Asian nation has been broughtdown to under 30 percent. The collaboration in social security has also provedfruitful, he added.
The countries’ MoU on labour cooperation, whichwas signed in 2018 and already expired, is set to be renewed in March or earlyApril. Meanwhile, the agreement on social insurance, on which there have beenfour rounds of negotiation, is expected to be inked in November this year,according to the minister.
At the meeting, Dung highly valued the RoK’sexperience in vocational training and honouring persons with high achievementsat regional and international skills competitions.
He said he hopes bilateral partnerships invocational education will be further promoted, and the two countries willrecognise each other’s diplomas so as to open up a new period of cooperation invocational education./.
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Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung (R) meets with RoK Ambassador Park Noh-wan in Hanoi on February 18 (Photo: VNA) 
