Around 10,000 youths to be sent to Korea - Dilan

Foreign Employment and Welfare Minister Dilan Perera said yesterday that the government has taken measures to send 10,000 youths to Korea for employment in 2012.

Perera made this observation in Parliament yesterday in response to a special statement made by DNA MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

The minister said that only 5,000 Sri Lankan youths will be sent to Korea for employment at higher salaries, during 2011.

He said that 9,998 youths have passed examinations and were qualified to leave to Korea. "They will be sent to Korea in 2012," he said.

The minister said that the salaries of youths leaving for Korea will be increased by 6.1 percent.