PHNOM PENH, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia had dispatched 4,957 migrant workers to South Korea in 2011, an increase of 134 percent from 2,116 laborers it sent in a year earlier, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training on Saturday.
Since 2007 to date, a total of 11,715 Cambodian migrant workers have been offered jobs in South Korea with an average salary of between 800 and 1,000 U.S. dollars a month.
The report showed that the Cambodian laborers are working in four specific fields in South Korea: manufacture, agriculture, construction and fishing.
Besides South Korea, Cambodia has sent laborders to Thailand, Malaysia and Japan.
Thailand is the largest market for Cambodian laborers with more than 80,000 working legally and the second one is Malaysia with more than 20,000 Cambodian migrant workers.
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