SEOUL, Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 20,000 refugee applications have piled up, but only 81 government officials are assigned to review the cases, a local human rights group said Sunday, citing data from the justice ministry. According to the statistics obtained and released by the Seoul-based Refugee Rights Center, or NANCEN, ahead of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been assessed that South Korea’s resettlement refugee program, which has been operating as a pilot project since 2015, has achieved successful outcomes compared to overseas cases. According to a case study report released at the end of last year by the Ministry of Justice, Myanmar refugees who [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has argued that accepting refugees en masse can incur short-term financial risk, but helps economic growth in the long run. Park Bok-yeong, a professor at Kyunghee University’s Graduate School of International Studies, claimed that despite the short-term financial risk that comes with an inflow of refugees, [...]
JEJU/SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The immigration office on the southern island of Jeju decided Friday to grant refugee status to two Yemeni asylum seekers, the first move of its kind since South Korea began to grapple with their inflow early this year. The immigration office also gave 50 other applicants humanitarian stay permits [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie on Sunday called on the South Korean government to provide support for hundreds of Yemenis until they safely return home, the UN Refugee Agency said. Jolie is visiting South Korea. Her visit to Seoul follows that of UNHCR [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Conflicts surrounding Yemeni refugee applicants in Jeju have become frequent at the refugees’ temporary workplaces, stemming from cultural differences between the Yemenis and their Korean employers. On July 10, a Yemeni refugee in his 20s who was hired as a crewman on a ship filed a police report claiming [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — New allegations have surfaced claiming a government official who acted as a translator for immigration officials and various refugee applicants had, on numerous occasions, made up information that factored in to the government’s decision to refuse refugee status. NANCEN, an NGO that assists refugees, held a press conference in [...]
JEJU, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — As the issue regarding the acceptance of Yemeni refugees continues to divide the nation, a discussion on how Christians should treat the matter was held yesterday at the Jeju Migrants Center. During the discussion, Abraham Lee, the executive director of The Refugee pNan, a refugee related NGO, said he [...]
JEJU, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — As news of Yemeni nationals landing on Jeju soil and applying for refugee status continues to dominate headlines at media outlets across the nation, interest in the refugee crisis has been piqued while the public remains divided on the issue. But contrary to what many people think, refugees have [...]