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Nepal-Korea News

Bilateral news: EPS quotas, agreements, flight routes, remittance policy and embassy announcements.

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News that belongs to both countries: EPS quotas and test schedules, bilateral agreements, flight routes, remittance policy and embassy announcements.

For many readers this is the most consequential feed on the site, because an EPS announcement has a short window and missing it costs a year.

What to watch

  • EPS sector quotas and test schedules, announced officially and with short registration windows.
  • Roster validity and workplace transfer rules, both revised in recent years.
  • The skilled worker route out of E-9, whose criteria have been adjusted more than once.
  • Agreements on labour, social security, air services and cooperation.
  • Flights, including route and carrier changes on a corridor with no direct service.
  • Trade access, including what Nepal's graduation from least-developed-country status affects.

The warning that belongs on this page

A rumour of a quota increase or a new route is frequently the opening move of a fee-taking scheme. EPS is government to government precisely so that no agency stands between you and selection, and nobody can move you up the roster.

If news arrives with a fee attached, the news is worthless. EPS: applying from Nepal covers the official sequence and its official costs, and work routes to Korea covers the warning signs.

Checking it yourself

Announcements come from the foreign employment department and its Korea section, from the Korean employment authorities, and from the two embassies. Policy news and what to watch lists the authoritative sources and how to read a notice properly.

The windows are short

The practical reason to follow this feed rather than check occasionally.

EPS registration windows, test schedules and some visa processes open for a defined and often brief period, announced officially rather than reported widely. Missing one usually means waiting a year.

So two habits. Check the official channels monthly if you intend to apply for anything, rather than relying on hearing about it. And keep your own documents current, so that when a window opens you can act rather than start assembling paperwork. EPS: applying from Nepal covers what to have ready.