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By Ko Dong-hwan, Park Si-soo

Korea's health ministry will hold a second round of tests in November to employ certified interpreters to help foreign patients at domestic hospitals.

The medical interpreter qualification tests will be for English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic and Mongolian. The first tests last year did not include Mongolian.

Applications for the written tests can be submitted from Sep. 26-29. The written tests will take place on Nov. 4 and those who pass will advance to interviews on Dec. 9.

Successful interviewees will receive a document of certification.

Application forms are available at hie.kohi.or.kr, operated by the Korea Human Resource Development Institute for Health and Welfare.