{
  "id": 837557,
  "title": "Kazakhstan designated as workforce-sending country",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/kazakhstan-designated-as-workforce-sending-country-837557",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-14T05:02:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/globalcommunity/20260814/kazakhstan-designated-as-workforce-sending-country"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Kazakhstan has been designated as a sending country under the employment permit system (EPS), with workers from the Central Asian nation set to arrive in South Korea starting in 2028. This announcement was made during a foreign workforce policy committee meeting presided over by Government Policy Coordination Minister Lim Ki-keun. Kazakhstan joins the list of 18 countries designated as EPS sending nations, following a rigorous evaluation process that confirmed the country's ability to ensure fairness and transparency in dispatch affairs. The EPS system aims to bring foreign workers into South Korea in a transparent manner, without the involvement of the private sector, through memorandums of understanding between Korea and the sending countries.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "Kazakhstan designated as workforce-sending country",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/kazakhstan-designated-as-workforce-sending-country",
        "published": "2026-08-14T03:48:33.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Kazakhstan designated as workforce-sending country",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/kazakhstan-designated-as-workforce-sending-country-838508",
        "published": "2026-08-14T05:12:02.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}