SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has finalized a decision not to punish an Iranian national charged with obtaining a visa based on a fake document, citing an international refugee convention prohibiting the punishment of refugees for illegal entry. The Iranian applied for refugee status in South Korea in March 2016 after [...]
INCHEON, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Russian asylum seekers who have come to South Korea after fleeing arbitrary enlistment to fight in the war in Ukraine may become eligible for refugee status. The Incheon District Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of two of the three Russians who filed a lawsuit against the head of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court has granted refugee status to a transgender Malaysian national, recognizing persecution based on sexual orientation as a basis for asylum for the first time, sources said Thursday. The Seoul High Court has recently delivered the ruling in a suit the Malaysian filed against the Seoul office [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has finalized a decision to grant refugee status to a Pakistani family who fled their home country in fear of so-called honor crimes, officials said Thursday. Upholding a lower court’s ruling, the top court sided with the Pakistanis’ request for asylum here after they received threats [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Law school students at Seoul National University (SNU) have helped Pakistani nationals facing the risk of honor killing acquire refugee status in South Korea. The Seoul High Court recently ruled against the Korea Immigration Office’s earlier decision not to recognize the Pakistani family as refugees. The Pakistani father has [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A court decision against the immigration office’s refusal to review a refugee status application from an African man has been finalized, court records showed Monday. The Seoul High Court on April 21 dismissed the Incheon International Airport immigration office’s appeal against a lower court ruling that deemed its rejection [...]
JEJU, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A foreigner whose application for refugee status was refused despite his claim that the lives of his family members were threatened by the mafia filed a suit to overturn the decision, but eventually lost the case in court. The Jeju District Court ruled on Monday that it dismissed the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Refugee advocacy groups are strongly opposing the South Korean government’s efforts to revise the Refugee Act. The government recently issued a preliminary notice on the legislation of the revised Refugee Act that focuses on strengthening the reapplication procedures for asylum seekers. A group of refugee rights groups, including the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has decided to impose stricter measures to prevent abuse of refugee status applications with malicious intent to extend the duration of stay. The Ministry of Justice announced the introduction of a newly amended refugee law Monday that will reject all reapplications for refugee status unless an exceptional [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The cumulative number of asylum applications filed in South Korea topped 70,000 for the first time, government data showed Monday. According to the data from the Korea Immigration Service, there were 70,254 asylum seekers here from 1994, when the government began to compile relevant data, to August this year. [...]