April 12: The visa term of all the migrant workers, including Nepalis, working in South Korea is to be extended by one year.    
The Ministry of Justice in South Korea stated that a rule has been endorsed allowing the workers, whose visa term had expired and who could not return to their home countries due to the Coronavirus pandemic, to get their visa term extended for one year from April 13.    
Migrants Trade Union (MTU) president Udaya Rai said the visa term of workers would be extended by one year.    
With this extension, the total stay of workers in South Korea would be of five years and 10 months.    
According to Rai no foreign migrant worker has entered South Korea for 13 months except some workers from Cambodia.    
It is said the South Korean government brought this rule in order to fulfill the shortage of workers and to provide relief to those workers unable to return to their home country due to the COVID-19 pandemic. -- RSS