Korea Aerospace Corporation recruits Vietnamese workers

A model aircraft is introduced at the factory of Korea Aerospace Industries in Sacheon city, South Gyeongsang province, South Korea - Photo: Yonhap/TTXVN

These are the first foreign workers that KAI has trained in their home countries and recruited and supplied to domestic aerospace companies.

Like the shipbuilding industry, small and medium-sized companies in the Korean aerospace sector are having difficulty recruiting due to the decreasing human resources to support domestic production. The recruitment of foreign workers is aimed at making up for the shortage of domestic human resources and restoring the industry's industrial ecosystem.

In 2023, KAI promoted the overseas professional human resource training project related to the implementation of the E-7-3 visa to address the manpower shortage of small and medium-sized companies in the aerospace field.

Accordingly, KAI signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on training and providing aerospace-specialized human resources with GAET.

After signing the MOU, in Vietnam, 50 excellent human resources meeting the requirements of bachelor's degree in science, engineering and work experience were selected and trained for 3 months in theory and practice in manufacturing aircraft components at the vocational training center established by the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense.

Starting this year, the first batch of graduates will be assigned to KAI’s partner companies, Korean aerospace parts manufacturers Songwol Technology, Mirae Aviation, Yulgok and S&K Aviation. These workers will take on practical work such as aircraft machining and assembly.

In the long term, KAI hopes to lay the foundation for providing foreign skilled manpower to partner companies. Meanwhile, GAET hopes that training and manpower supply contracts will help create a source of experts in the field of aviation components manufacturing.

Mr. Song Ho-cheol, director of the Korea Aerospace Industries Operations Center, said that promoting the project opens up a good direction to solve the human resource shortage of partners by taking advantage of Vietnam's abundant human resources and infrastructure.

Meanwhile, Songwol Technology CEO Park Joon-hwan said the company is working to increase the global competitiveness of domestic small and medium-sized companies by employing foreign experts.

After the COVID-19 pandemic, the workforce supporting Korea's manufacturing industry is declining, and most small and medium-sized manufacturers in the aviation sector are located in rural areas, leading to great difficulties in recruitment.

Korea Aerospace Industries plans to train about 100 professional personnel each year through Vietnam's aerospace training program.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/tap-doan-hang-khong-vu-tru-han-quoc-tuyen-dung-lao-dong-viet-20240802154508498.htm