South Korea | Eased restrictions on interregional movement

South Korea’s acting president and prime minister announced the easing of restrictions on international workers switching jobs outside of the Seoul metropolitan area.

Key Points:

• Foreign national employees in the Greater Seoul area will be allowed to freely move to other provinces while changing jobs.
• Previously, foreign workers had only been allowed to change workplaces within the region where they received their initial work permits.
• The goal is to alleviate labor shortages in non-metropolitan cities and regions.
• The ban on transferring from a non-metropolitan area to the Seoul metropolitan area was retained.

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