SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – About 13,000 illegal immigrants left South Korea through a crackdown and the voluntary departure program over the past two months, the Ministry of Justice said Wednesday. The government has resumed its crackdown on foreigners staying or working illegally here since last October after a pause due to COVID-19. The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 10,000 illegal immigrants left South Korea through a crackdown and the voluntary departure program in October and November, the Ministry of Justice said Wednesday. The government has resumed its crackdown on foreigners staying or working illegally here since October after a pause due to COVID-19, the ministry [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — One in 5 foreign nationals staying in South Korea are illegal immigrants, with the number of undocumented immigrants rising to nearly 400,000, government data showed Thursday. According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Justice, 395,068 foreigners were staying in the country without a valid visa in July, [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has come up with a set of measures to strengthen human rights protection at detention centers for illegal immigrants, including adopting a supervisor in charge of overseeing possible violations, officials said Wednesday. The justice ministry issued a public notice on its push for a partial revision of [...]
JEJU, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeju Immigration Office in South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju quickly became a scene of chaos with Chinese illegal aliens lined up to flee the country. Some 200 people rushed to report on Tuesday that they would voluntarily leave South Korea. There were even instances of physical [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will restrict illegal aliens from leaving the country without prior notification in a move to prevent those who commit crimes here from fleeing the country by abusing the current report system, the justice ministry said Sunday. Until now, illegal immigrants could voluntarily leave the country after reporting [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — About 15 percent of the foreign residents in South Korea are illegal immigrants, with Thais forming the biggest national group of illegal immigrants here, a report showed Sunday. A total of 370,889 foreigners were staying in South Korea without permission as of July, 15 percent of the entire population [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — As the number of foreign students exceeding their permitted stay illegally in South Korea continues to grow, critics are calling for better follow-up measures after international students are recruited to various schools in South Korea. According to data submitted by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Justice to [...]
ICHEON, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – On November 7, an inspection into an Icheon, Gyeonggi Province-located package distribution center uncovered 191 migrant workers, all of them lacking valid work permits. The investigation was conducted by immigration authorities from the Ministry of Justice, and with the assistance of a handful of related agencies, it was discovered [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Donald Trump’s decision to put an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has allowed approximately 800,000 illegal immigrants referred to as Dreamers who entered the country as minors to receive the benefit of deferred deportation, has aroused fierce anger among immigrants, and members of [...]