SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will impose a travel ban on Haiti next month due to increasing safety concerns as gang violence is escalating in the Caribbean nation, the foreign ministry has said. The Level 4 travel advisory, the highest of the four-scale system, will go into effect Wednesday, and it will [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Ex-spouses who fail to make child support payments have been banned from leaving the country when the unpaid amount reaches a certain limit. Now, the limit will become even lower. The Ministry of Gender and Equality said Wednesday that a newly amended Enforcement Decree of the Act on Enforcing [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Chinese tourists in South Korea declined nearly 70 percent on-year last month, marking a drop for five straight months following China’s ban on sales of Korea-bound trips amid a diplomatic row over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system here, government data showed Tuesday. The tally [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will allow its citizens to visit some parts of Iraq which had been banned from travel as safety is showing signs of improving, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The ministry has imposed a travel ban on Iraq since August 2007 for safety reasons though allowed exceptional permits [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean duty-free shops’ sales fell 19 percent in March from a month earlier due to China’s retaliation against the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system here, government data showed Sunday. Overall sales in domestic duty-free stores declined to 1.06 trillion won (US$930 million) in March from the previous [...]