An employment agency in Russia has posted advertisements offering to supply North Korean female workers to restaurants and factories, US-based North Korea-focused media outlet NK News reported on the 12th (local time).

According to an ad posted on Avito, a Russian online classifieds site, an employment agency stated that it can supply 40 North Korean female workers to businesses in the Moscow region.

The agency introduced that the North Korean female workers are skilled at making kimbap and can be deployed to restaurants, production lines, textile factories, and the agricultural sector.

However, it attached a condition that the 40 North Korean female workers must work as a single team and cannot be assigned separately to multiple businesses.

This appears to be a measure by North Korean authorities to monitor the workers' movements and keep them bound to a single business location.

Working 26 to 28 days a month and 11 hours a day are also conditions.

The wage proposed by the agency is 480 rubles (approx. 8,200 won) per hour.

Consequently, while the monthly wage per worker reaches up to 147,840 rubles (approx. 2.53 million won), it is analyzed that the amount actually received by the workers will be much less.

Peter Ward, a North Korea economy expert at the Sejong Institute, estimated that "brokers, officials, and the North Korean government will take 75 to 90 percent of the wages."

In Russia, which suffers from a labor shortage, the influx of North Korean workers has recently been increasing.

Last month, a number of North Korean female workers were spotted working at a dumpling factory near Moscow.

In addition, it is known that North Korean female workers have been heavily employed in textile factories, agricultural facilities, and logistics centers in western Russia.

Advertisements recruiting Korean interpreters to be deployed to factories and construction sites where North Korean workers are employed are also increasing on Russian job search sites.

Russia issued approximately 36,000 study visas to North Korean nationals last year.

NK News analyzed that this appears to be a method of bringing workers into the country under student statuses to evade United Nations Security Council sanctions that ban the employment of North Korean workers.

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