Seoul (VNA) - Korean companySBI Cosmoney has presented 10,000 medical face masks to Vietnamese guestworkers in the Republic of Korea (RoK).
At the handover ceremony, head of the Vietnamese Labour ManagementBoard in the RoK Ta Thi Thanh Thuy thanked SBICosmoney for the gifts and promised to send them to 11 labour support centres, whichwill pass them on to workers.
According to the board, nearly 47,000 Vietnamese workersare employed in the RoK, and the face masks will be a great help in COVID-19 prevention and control.
SBI Cosmoney CEO Jeong Wook Kim said the company recognisesthat foreign workers have been hardest hit by the pandemic.
The face masks are part of support the company plansto give to Vietnamese workers, he said, adding that more assistance will beextended to the group in the future, depending on needs.
The Seoul-headquartered company specialises in financeand international money transfers./.
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