SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has decided to allow up to 30 businesspeople to visit Ukraine each time for potential projects for reconstruction and recovery under special travel exceptions, officials and industry sources familiar with the matter said Sunday. Seoul has expressed its intent to actively participate in helping to rebuild the [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to allow businesspeople to enter Ukraine for reconstruction projects by making exceptions to the travel ban on the war-torn country, officials said Sunday. The decision was part of measures that the government is taking after President Yoon Suk Yeol made a surprise visit to Ukraine earlier [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has agreed to allow businesspeople from South Korea to enter the country without a 14-day coronavirus quarantine starting later this week, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. The special entry procedure, set to take effect Oct. 8, comes about seven months after Tokyo slapped entry restrictions on Seoul in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Indonesia has agreed to create a special entry system for South Korean business travelers in exception to its entry restrictions imposed over coronavirus concerns, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The measure, to take effect Aug. 17, will exempt South Korean businesspeople from the mandatory two-week isolation when they enter [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Japan are in talks over ways to ease coronavirus entry restrictions for business travelers, a diplomatic source said Wednesday. Last month, Seoul and Tokyo kicked off diplomatic talks on the relaxation of the restrictions based on the shared view that the countries should allow the entry [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Vietnam has granted 340 South Korean business travelers exemptions from its coronavirus entry ban, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, with their chartered flights set to depart for the Southeast Asian country later this week. The exemptions came amid Seoul’s stepped-up diplomacy to persuade foreign countries to allow essential overseas [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and China have agreed to seek an “institutional framework” to grant businesspeople exemptions from entry restrictions aimed at preventing imported new coronavirus infections, a foreign ministry official said Monday. The agreement came during a videoconference that Vice Foreign Minister Cho Sei-young and his Chinese counterpart, Le Yucheng, [...]