DAP Sabah welcomed Tourism
Minister Dato Masidi announcement that every opportunity would be made
available for 'Sit-In' local tour guides to learn Korean language to cater for
Korean tour in Sabah.
DAP Sabah assistant
secretary Junz Wong said Dato Masidi however may have been ill-advised as far
as the past Korean language courses for local guides was concerned.
Article in newspaper
reported that "Masidi said although an offer had been made in the past by
the government for locals to get free Korean language tuition classes, the
response was negligible"
Junz said according to his
findings, there were altogether 19 Sabah tour guides who had enrolled for the
Korean language classes 4 years ago.
"All of them passed the
training course and eight of them applied for the licenses.
However the irony is till
today, NONE of the 8 Korea-speaking local guides was ever employed by any Korea
agency companies to cater for any Korea tour in Sabah before, for the last 4
years!" Junz claimed.
The argument of local guides
was not that Korean was a difficult language. They argued that what was the
point to pick up Korean language when they knew they would never been employed
to cater Korean tour?
So the question now is WHY
Federal Tourism Minister - Ng Yen Yen has claimed that there was not enough
Korea speaking local guides to cater Korea tour? Was she trying to mislead
Sabahans? Junz asked.
Ng Yen Yen has said that
until Sabah tourism has proven that there were enough Korea-speaking guides to
cater Korea Tour, she had no choice but to liberalize the 'market'!
Junz rubbished her claims
saying "What's the point of our local Sabahan tour guides learning Korea
languages knowing that they would never be employed?!"
DAP Sabah would like to seek
assurance from Dato Masidi that Korean speaking local guides would be employed
to cater Korean Tour in Sabah. As in now, we already have some qualified local
guides who can speak good Korean, will they been employed to cater for Korean
tour soon? Junz concluded
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