SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea National Park Service announced that it is going to place an entry ban on Geomundo Island’s seashore rocks for the preservation of the local ecosystem. The entry ban will be imposed over seashore rocks contaminated by fishing and marine leisure activities for a designated period for the [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court ruled Thursday that it was legitimate for the South Korean Consulate General in Los Angeles to deny a visa for Korean-American singer Steve Yoo, who has been banned from entering the country since 2002 for draft dodging. Yoo, also known by his Korean name Yoo Seung-jun, [...]
BRUSSELS/SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The European Union (EU) has approved a guideline recommending its member states reopen their borders to 14 countries, including South Korea, after restricting all non-essential entries from outside the bloc over coronavirus fears. The European Council representing 27 member states adopted the non-binding recommendation on Tuesday (Belgium time), taking [...]
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 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Kuwait has granted entry ban exemptions to over 100 employees of 25 South Korean companies after government and parliamentary leaders appealed to the Middle Eastern nation that bilateral economic cooperation must be kept up despite the coronavirus pandemic, an official said. It is the first time that Kuwait has [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court has ruled in favor of a Korean-American singer who was banned from entering South Korea, a decision that may help him visit the country for the first time in 18 years. The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s decision that was handed down [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band Super Junior on Friday indefinitely put off its Japanese concerts after the neighboring country announced a plan to introduce quarantine measures for travelers from South Korea. Tokyo has announced that travelers coming from South Korea and China will be asked to stay at designated facilities for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With a growing number of countries are either banning or restricting entry for South Korean travelers due to the new coronavirus, South Korea’s popular culture industry is being hit hard. K-pop stars scheduled for overseas tours or movie producers with plans for overseas filming are concerned that they may [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of countries imposing entry bans on travelers who recently visited South Korea’s southeastern city of Daegu and the nearby county of Cheongdo is on the rise, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Wednesday, following a spike in confirmed novel coronavirus cases there. Earlier in the day, Japan approved the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will bar foreigners to be released from a quarantined cruise ship off Japan from entering the country, a senior Seoul official said Wednesday, as Japanese authorities are scheduled to end the vessel’s quarantine over the coronavirus. In a press briefing, Noh Hong-in, an official of the central [...]