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. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Overturning a lower court decision, a Seoul appellate court on Friday ruled in favor of an Angolan family stranded at the country’s main airport while applying for refugee status in the country after fleeing persecution in their homeland. The Seoul High Court ordered immigration officials to grant the family [...]
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, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Embassy of Lebanon in South Korea has invited ambassadors from 31 countries to its quarters on Wednesday to watch “Capernaum”, a movie about a Lebanese boy named Zain who exposes the issues of poverty, refugees, and the responsibility of the state to the audience. As of Monday, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has granted official refugee status to a Thai national for the first time ever, according to various Thai media outlets. After being indicted in January for lese majeste, an offence against the dignity of a reigning sovereign or against a state, Chanoknan Ruamsap fled Thailand [...]
JEJU/SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The immigration office on the southern island of Jeju decided Wednesday to give 339 Yemeni asylum seekers humanitarian stay permits in South Korea, the justice ministry said. The office also rejected refuge applications from 34 Yemenis without issuing stay permits for them and deferred decisions on 85 others, the [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ruled that an Iranian who converted from Islam to Christianity should be formally recognized as a refugee due to concerns over persecution upon returning to Iran. Cha Ji-won, a judge at the Seoul Administrative Court, ruled in favor of the plaintiff who filed a [...]