The E-7-4 (skilled-trade workers in designated industries) quota system was reformed from April 2024, with significantly expanded annual limits for shipbuilding, manufacturing, and certain construction-adjacent roles experiencing structural domestic-labour shortages. Designed to address the demographic-decline-driven labour gap.
Manufacturing, shipbuilding, and skilled-trade employers; their non-Korean hires.
Primary: Korea Ministry of Justice ↗
Corroborating: Hi Korea — Korea Immigration Service ↗
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