Manpower shortage in Goesan, South Korea: The secret is a memorandum of guarantee for foreign seasonal workers to return to country of origin

(Goesan = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Jong-guk = Goesan County, North Chungcheong Province, decided to bring in foreign seasonal workers who had been blocked for two years due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), thereby reducing the severe manpower shortage of farmers. The reason that the entry way for foreign seasonal workers, which was difficult to expect this year, was opened as the Corona 19 did not subside, it was because they received a 'return guarantee memorandum' from the country concerned. According to Goesan County on the 12th, 75 seasonal workers from Uzbekistan will enter the country on the 2nd of next month. They will self-isolate for 14 days, check whether they are infected with COVID-19, and then go out to help corn farms that are in full-fledged harvest season. Their stay period is 5 months until December. The period of stay of foreign seasonal workers who entered Korea until 2019 is two months longer than the three months. These will be ...