SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — As the number of foreign nationals in South Korea with voting rights to participate in next week’s Seoul and Busan mayoral by-elections reached more than 40,000 people, some sentiments are raising questions as to why they can vote. Experts argue, however, that voting rights are their legal entitlement. In [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said late Friday that it retracted its administrative order requiring all foreign nationals to be tested for COVID-19, amid strong protest. The city said it has switched the policy to a recommendation for foreign workers at high-risk business establishments to get tested for the coronavirus [...]
DAEGU, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A fire station in the southeastern city of Daegu said Thursday it has started to offer a translation service for foreign residents in the city, amid increasing calls for help from them. According to the Suseong Fire Station, there are more than 28,000 registered foreign residents in the city, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreigners diagnosed with COVID-19 in South Korea has soared this year due mainly to the steady outbreaks of cluster infections at industrial workplaces, a government agency said Saturday. According to the Central Disease Control Headquarters, 1,747 foreign nationals have tested positive for the coronavirus here since [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Quarantine authorities are to conduct intensive coronavirus field inspections at foreigner-dense areas and workplaces and other places deemed highly vulnerable to the pandemic, a government agency said Friday, after recent outbreaks of virus clusters at factories. According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters, about 1,000 places nationwide, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of unregistered foreigners in South Korea is nearing the 20 percent milestone, setting an unprecedented record. The Ministry of Justice reported that 19.3 percent of all foreigners in South Korea last year were unregistered, up by 3.8 percentage points since the previous year (15.5 percent). The proportion [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s government is pushing for a program in which foreign nationals subject to deportation due to minor offenses could extend their stay legally in return for a donation, the justice ministry said Saturday. According to a research paper commissioned by the ministry on the subject, convicted foreign nationals [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Justice said Saturday that it has introduced a deposit program to encourage foreigners subject to deportation to voluntarily leave the country as part of efforts to ease crowding in temporary detention centers amid the coronavirus pandemic. Under the new policy, foreigners who are ordered to leave [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners’ building transactions in South Korea reached an all-time high in 2020, with deals soaring in the Seoul metropolitan area, data showed Tuesday. Foreigners’ transactions of housing and commercial buildings in Asia’s fourth-largest economy came to 21,048 last year, up 18.5 percent from a year earlier, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Global consumers picked kimchi as their most preferred Korean dish, a poll showed Thursday, amid the growing popularity of traditional Korean food, known as hansik, in line with the boom of the country’s pop culture around the world. Nearly 34 percent of the respondents said they preferred eating kimchi, [...]