A table tennis match at 13th Vietnam Student Sports Festival (Photo: VNA) Nearly 1,000 Vietnamese students, graduates and peopleliving in the RoK competed in seven sports.
Nguyen Viet Anh, Minister-Counsellor at the Vietnamese Embassyin the RoK, said that this is the biggest and most anticipated annual event ofVietnamese students in the host country.
It helped enhance solidarity among the Vietnamesestudents as well as the Vietnamese community in the RoK, and promote the image ofyoung and dynamic Vietnamese students to international friends, thus contributingto the cohesion among them and the host country’s organisations andbusinesses and to developing the Vietnam-RoK relations, according to theVietnamese Students Association in the RoK (VSAK) – the organiser of thefestival.
On August 20, a football tournament for Vietnamese labourersworking in the RoK under the Employment Permit System (EPS) was also organisedin Ansan city.
It attracted 20 teams from Seoul capital,Gyeonggi province and Incheon city.
Minister-Counsellor Anh said that since 2004, as many as 140,000Vietnamese people have travelled to the RoK to work under the EPS programme,and made contributions to boost the two countries’ relations.
He stated that the Vietnamese Embassy always hopes Vietnamese workers will unite, abide by contracts, comply with regulations on residence and otherprovisions of the Korean law, and together build an image of dynamic, creativeand well integrated Vietnamese workforce./.
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