Review Standards and Employment Qualifications for Foreign Workers Engaged in Work Specified in Subparagraphs 8 to 10, Paragraph 1, Article 46 of the Employment Service Act Article 56-3

The number of foreign nationals hired by an employer to engage in diverse companionship service work cannot exceed the total number determined by the Central Competent Authority.Determination of the aforementioned total number of hired foreign workers should include the following:1. Number of foreign workers recruited for the first time in the application.2. Number of foreign workers that can be applied for on the recruitment permit, number of recruitment permits obtained and number of foreign workers already employed. However, in either of the following circumstances foreign workers are not included in the calculation:(1) When an employer wants to continue the employment of a foreign worker with four months left on his or her employment permit an application for re-recruitment can be filed with the Central Competent Authority, those individuals are not included in the calculation.(2) When there are changes to the factual basis of the original recruitment permit and an employer is unable to apply for supplementary recruitment, re-recruitment or employment of foreign workers, those individuals are not included in the calculation.3. Number of foreign workers included on foreign worker recruitment permits and employment permits revoked in the two year period preceding the application, for reasons attributable to the employer.