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. 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 [...]
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. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Afghan evacuees, who fled their country seized by the Taliban, will be eventually granted long-term visas after they arrive in South Korea, the justice minister said Thursday. Justice Minister Park Beom-kye said the government decided to give legal status to the people who worked with the South Korean government [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States is considering using American military bases in South Korea as one of the housing sites for evacuees from Afghanistan, along with other overseas bases, including those in Japan, the Wall Street Journal has reported. The Pentagon is “looking at American bases in Japan, Korea, Germany, Kosovo, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A nationwide outpouring of support and encouragement is helping South Korean expatriates and Chinese families from Wuhan, China who came to South Korea to escape the coronavirus outbreak. A total of 170 South Koreans and their Chinese family members who returned to their home country via a chartered plane [...]
JINCHEON, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Jincheon County in North Chungcheong Province, where evacuees stay after returning from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, is set out to help them who are being housed temporarily at the National Human Resources Development Institute. A total of 173 evacuees have been quarantined at the institute [...]
SEOUL/ASAN, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Hundreds of South Korean evacuees from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan arrived at temporary accommodation in Asan, south of Seoul, on Saturday, hours after their arrival in the country from the epicenter of the new virus strain. A total of 326 people from Wuhan and its vicinity were put [...]