‘Over 4000 Bangladeshi workers to go to Korea this year’

Lee Jang-keun, South Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh said, more than 4000 Bangladeshi workers will go to Korea this year.

The ambassador said this while addressing a program organized by diplomatic correspondent association Bangladesh (DCAB) at press club in the capital on Wednesday (August 31).

He said that we are keen to send more Bangladeshi workers. After the Covid-19 crisis, we have started sending manpower again from September last year. More than 3,000 workers already have been sent from Bangladesh between January and August this year.

We hope over 4000 Bangladeshi workers will go to Korea this year. There are now 10,000 Bangladeshi workers in Korea, he added.