According to Prem Luitel, an officer at EPS-Nepal office, which conducted the exam, around 10 percent of the examinees were female. A total 47,690 applicants, including around 4,240 females, were eligible to sit for the exams.[break]
The government and Human Resource Department (HRD) of Korea conducted 70-minute test at 17 centers of Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts in two shifts on Sunday and Monday.
According to Luitel, results will be published on October 21.
Officials expect around 8,000 hopefuls to pass the examination, which is officially named Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK), to qualify for further processing for the Korean jobs.
Luitel said 30 percent of the passed applicants will get opportunity to go through professional skills test which provide them more priority than others in EPS jobs, said Luitel.
Of the around 15,000 youths, who passed the languages test in 2011, around 4,800 are still to get job opportunities in Korea. Luitel said around 3,000 of them sat in the examination this year as well.
South Korea has been sourcing workers from 15 different countries, including Nepal under EPS introduced in 2004. Around 17,000 Nepalis have left for Korea under EPS so far.
Nepal had signed labor agreement with South Korea in 2007 to send Nepalis to work in five different sectors -- manufacturing, fishery, agriculture, service and construction in the fourth largest economy of Asia. EPS Nepal has already conducted three KLT exams - in 2008, 2010 and 2011 in Nepal.
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