SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — People who have been fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus in South Korea are exempted from the mandatory 14-day isolation starting Wednesday when arriving here from overseas and when having close contact with virus patients. The new rules will be applied only for those who have been fully inoculated [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Five more foreign nationals have been deported from South Korea after getting caught violating self-isolation rules, the Ministry of Justice said Friday. The violators — two Chinese nationals and one each from Pakistan, Poland and Britain — have been ordered to leave for their home countries after failing to [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A Japanese man has been arrested on charges of violating self-isolation rules during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Seodaemun Police Station in Seoul said Thursday that they’ve detained the 23-year-old man for allegedly going outside while under two-week self-isolation. He is the first foreign national to be arrested for breaking [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is set to enforce a maximum sixfold increase in the monetary penalty for foreign violators of the mandatory self-isolation rule, as part of its reinforced coronavirus-fighting measures, the Ministry of Justice said Monday. Under the quarantine measures that took effect in early April, all entrants from overseas [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Last week, South Korea ordered the deportation of seven foreigners who went outside despite being under self-isolation, the justice ministry said Sunday. The ministry said it ordered three Vietnamese students in the southwestern city of Gunsan to leave the country on Friday. They were found to have left their [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Saturday it will use electronic wristbands on people who violate self-isolation rules to better contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said the country will make self-isolation violators wear electronic wristbands since the number of cases of people breaching the self-quarantine in [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is considering using electric wristbands to prevent people in self-isolation from going outside, an official said Tuesday, amid growing concerns over people breaching the rules and spreading the coronavirus. “A majority of people are following self-isolation (rules), but there have been some cases of (people) leaving (designated [...]