ULSAN, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — In celebration of Children’s Day, the Ulsan Metropolitan Police Agency held a special event for the settlement of ‘special contributors’ from Afganistan on Thursday. The event was held at Hotel Hyundai by Lahan Ulsan in the southeastern city of Ulsan, where 158 special contributors and their families were invited [...]
NEW YORK and LISBON, Portugal, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Jesuit Refugee Service Portugal (JRS Portugal) and The Romulus T. Weatherman Foundation (The Foundation) of New York are pleased to announce the rescue of and granting of asylum to Portugal of 220 Afghan nationals. The group includes the remaining 115 players and family members of the [...]
JINCHEON, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Afghan ‘special contributors’ and their family members left for Yeosu, South Jeolla Province on Wednesday after staying at the National Human Resources Development Institute in Jincheon for about two months. About 50 people, including officials from the Jincheon municipal office, institute employees and local residents, gave them a hearty [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Koreans cheering for Jincheon, which has accepted ‘persons of special merit’ from Afghanistan, the county’s online shopping mall that sells local produce has been shut down due to server overload. On the county’s Jincheon Mall website, a notice was posted on Sunday saying that all item sales [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost 70 percent of South Koreans support the government’s plan to grant long-term stay visas to hundreds of Afghan civilians who fled their homeland to be sheltered here from the Taliban, a poll showed Monday. According to the poll of 500 people aged 18 and above conducted by Realmeter [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Dolls that were seen in the hands of children of Afghan “persons of special merit” and their families when they arrived at Incheon International Airport last week are gaining media attention after they turned out to have been distributed by the South Korean Ministry of Justice to comfort them. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Four Afghan evacuees, including two kids, have been diagnosed with COVID-19 after arriving in South Korea earlier this week, a Seoul ministry said Saturday. They took coronavirus tests upon arriving at Incheon International Airport on Thursday. They were among 477 Afghans evacuated to South Korea from their homeland controlled [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The site of the deadly attack on the Kabul airport was the same gate that South Korea used days earlier to evacuate Afghan co-workers and their family members, a source said Friday. The suicide bomb attack at the airport’s Abby Gate on Thursday has left scores of Afghans and [...]
JINCHEON, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of Afghan civilians who evacuated to South Korea seeking refuge from the Taliban in their homeland arrived at their temporary shelter in the country’s central region Friday, where they are expected to stay for about eight weeks. The group of 377 Afghans, including 180 children and infants, which [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A heated debate is brewing in South Korea over whether the country has to accept Afghans fleeing the Taliban takeover amid a report the United States is considering using its military bases in the country and others to house Afghan evacuees. Since the Taliban took over Kabul earlier this [...]