SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreigners who visited South Korea this year surpassed 16 million in early December thanks to the rising influx of travelers from Asian nations, the state-run tourism agency said Tuesday. A total of 15.9 million foreigners visited the nation in the January-November period, up 31.3 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Some 50,000 foreign laborers make their way to Korea each year in search of the “Korean Dream”, but a recent study revealed that these laborers, who are often exposed to substandard working and living conditions, have grown more vulnerable to tuberculosis than the general population. According to the Korean [...]
INCHEON, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Convenience food, packaged Korean cuisine, is rapidly gaining popularity among foreigners, with an increasing number of travelers purchasing the products at Korean airports before departure. Food and restaurant services company Our Home started offering Korean convenience food at its Food Empire outlets at Incheon International Airport this year. Food [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The justice ministry said Monday it has recently started sharing the fingerprint information of all foreigners in the country with police as part of efforts to better deal with domestic crimes committed by aliens. In South Korea, the Ministry of Justice is responsible for collecting personal information on all [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreigners in South Korea topped the 2 million mark as of June, accounting for 3.9 percent of the total population, government data showed Wednesday. The number of foreigners in South Korea has been rising steadily since it reached the 1 million mark in 2007, according to [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that three out of ten international school-aged children (primary & secondary) residing in Korea struggle to receive the full benefits of the Korean public education system. Some of these children even give up on schooling and turn to labor instead. According to the Ansan [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – About one-third of the foreign students studying in Korea consider “seniority-based” culture hard to accept. Yoo Hyun-kyung, the director of Yonsei University’s Korean Language Institute, presented the results of a study entitled “Efficient Management of Foreign Students” during the Korean Language Institute Council’s 10th anniversary workshop, which was held on [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign visitors to South Korea chose “ganjang gejang,” or raw crab marinated in soy sauce, as the most challenging Korean food, a survey showed Monday. According to the survey of 726 foreigners who visited the country between April and May, 508 respondents, or 65 percent, said the marinated crab is [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The wait time for foreigners filing for alien registration or extension of stay has been sharply decreased with the extended implementation of the online reservation system, the government said Tuesday. The Ministry of Justice said since it adopted the full-scale online reservation system at six immigration offices in the Seoul metropolitan area [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreigners who receive plastic surgery and aesthetic treatment in South Korea will receive a value added tax refund starting next month, the health ministry said Wednesday. The tax rebate will be given at special booths installed in the country’s international airports when foreign patients submit a certificate issued by authorized medical [...]