An Australian agency expects more Koreans will visit Australia on “working holiday” programs in the future.

The country’s tourism agency expects an annual 235-thousand Koreans to enter Australia on working holiday visas by 2017, up a whopping 50-point-six percent from 156-thousand this year.

It predicted that only two-thousand more Koreans will head to Australia as part of the program in 2009 due to the global economic slump.

Working holiday programs grant special one-year visas to young foreigners looking to work in countries with insufficient labor forces.