Vietnam, RoK strengthen cooperation in labour, employment, social affairs
Labour, employment and social cooperation between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea since the two countries established diplomatic relations 30 years ago was reviewed at a workshop in Hanoi on August 3.
Hanoi (VNA) – Labour, employment and social cooperationbetween Vietnam and the Republic of Korea since the two countries establisheddiplomatic relations 30 years ago was reviewed at a workshop in Hanoi on August3.
Theevent was co-organised by Vietnam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and SocialAffairs and the RoK’s Ministry of Employment and Labour.
Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Ba Hoan affirmedat the workshop that the two countries have conducted many cooperative activitiesin labour, employment, occupational education, human resources development,labour safety and hygiene, social security, social insurance and genderequality.
Such collaboration has brought economic benefits to both people and enterprisesof the two countries, he said.
At present, the RoK is the biggest foreign investor in Vietnam with 9,223 validprojects and aggregate capital of 74.7 billion USD as of December 2021.Bilateral trade totaled 78.1 billion USD in 2021. More than 9,000Korean-invested enterprises are operating in Vietnam, creating jobs for over700,000 labourers.
Meanwhile, 39,659 Vietnamese labourers are working in the RoK.
At the workshop, delegates focusedtheir discussion on issues related to labour and migrant workers, and skilldevelopment, which they said are a pillar of the bilateral cooperation.
They also shared good models of labour cooperation, such as programmes forworkers returning to Vietnam from the RoK and partnership between universitiesof the two countries./.
The Republic of Korea (RoK) wishes to collaborate with Vietnam in high quality human resources training, technology transfer as well as in mineral exploitation and processing, said RoK Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Lee Chang-yang during talks with visiting Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien in Seoul on August 2.
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Delegates to the workshop (Photo: VNA) 
