SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Friends and civil groups advocating for an Iranian boy who obtained refugee status in South Korea called on the National Assembly to crack down on immigration authorities following the decision to reject an application for refugee status from the boy’s father. Civil groups and graduates of Aju Middle School, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — An Iranian man in his 50s was granted an extension of his “humanitarian stay” in South Korea on Thursday, as the authorities stopped short of endorsing refugee status. The 53-year-old is the father of an Iranian student who obtained refugee status last October. The son, aged 16, has the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — “I will do my everything to live with my son and do my best on review. Thank you.” The remark was made by a 52-year-old Iranian man who spoke to reporters in poor Korean ahead of his second refugee interview at the Seoul Immigration Office on Tuesday. The 52-year-old [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — With a middle school student from Iran on the verge of being deported from South Korea after his application for official refugee status was rejected, friends and classmates have come together to voice their opinions. Sixty people associated with a middle school in Songpa-gu including students, teachers and parents [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — PyeongChang Olympic organizers won’t provide North Korean and Iranian players with Samsung smartphones, which are available free to all other athletes, for fear of violating international sanctions on the countries, officials said Wednesday. Samsung Electronics has offered some 4,000 units of the Galaxy Note 8 Olympic Edition [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners other than Chinese visiting South Korea grew in the first seven months of this year following the government’s efforts to diversify its tourist portfolio in the face of a sharp drop in the number of Chinese visitors, the country’s tourism promotion agency said Tuesday. According [...]