Around 45,000 Vietnamese have applied to work abroad in South Korea this year, about three times the intended quota of 15,400, according to the Center of Overseas Labor.
South Korea's financial watchdog said on Monday it was expanding and toughening the assessment of real estate projects in a bid to speed up restructuring of the sector.
South Korean authorities on Sunday confirmed that a 65-year-old tourist died after falling overboard from a cruise ship and an investigation is ongoing.
Police in the southern Hau Giang Province arrested a married couple on Friday for attempting to smuggle 18 people into South Korea to work under the guise of tourism.