



By Park Si-soo







Police are searching for 164 Vietnamese students enrolled at Incheon National University's Korean language school after they have been unaccounted for 15 days.







The university reported this to police on Tuesday, in accordance with a law mandating universities to report foreign students skipping classes for 15 days.







The students are among 1,900 Vietnamese students on a one-year Korean language training program at the university. The program began four months ago, said the school.







Police believe the genuine purpose of coming to Korea was to get a job after learning Korean for a short time.







Many people from developing countries in Southeast Asia have settled here this way in pursuit of big money despite the risk of a crackdown by authorities, maltreatment and exploitation by employers.





