Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has ordered the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to advise 7,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to end their contracts in South Korea since they have been working there illegally, The Manila Times learned on Tuesday.

South Korea has an annual quota under a renewable contract of only 450 workers from the Philippines but Baldoz said Seoul may raise it to 500.

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