South Korea | New immigration strategy includes expanded eligibility for Top-Tier Visa, new visas for technical workers

The Ministry of Justice announced its new strategy for immigration policy, expanding eligibility for top talent in cutting-edge industries and introducing new visa types to bring in skilled and technical workers.

Key takeaways:

Eligibility for the Top-Tier Visa has been expanded to include professors and researchers in science and technology.

New visas will target foreign national graduates of domestic technical colleges in manufacturing fields and skilled workers in agriculture and fisheries.

A special exception will allow small businesses in areas with declining populations to hire foreign staff.

A new advisory committee on foreign labor wages will set minimum wage requirements by industry type and foreign worker.

This alert has been provided by the BAL Global Practice Group.

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