SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Yonhap News Agency, South Korea’s key newswire, hosted a global forum with the U.N. refugee agency Thursday to address the issue of forced displacement in Africa, where more than 100 million people have lost homes due to war, violence or persecution. The Global Forum on Solutions for Forced Displacement [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Angelina Jolie pleaded with the world Friday to come together and stop acting selfishly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Academy Award winning actress spoke virtually in her capacity as a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) during an international forum hosted by Yonsei University, [...]
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, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics revealed that it had supplied 10,000 low carbon eco-friendly cook stoves to a Kenyan refugee camp in the Kakuma region. This is not the first time the South Korean tech giant has contributed cooking equipment to Kenya; 10,000 cook stoves were distributed to select areas in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s foreign minister asked the U.N. refugee agency on Tuesday to make efforts to protect and support North Korean defectors living overseas, her office in Seoul has said. Kang Kyung-wha earlier held a luncheon meeting in Seoul with Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government said Monday that 30 refugees from Myanmar will arrive in the country this week, as part of a United Nations resettlement program it has joined in the recent year. The 30 Myanmarese nationals, made up of five families who are currently staying in a refugee [...]
INCHEON, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven Myanmar refugee families, 34 asylum seekers in total, arrived at Incheon International Airport Wednesday. The latest acceptance of refugees is the second instance of its kind after South Korea joined the UNHCR resettlement program in 2015. An additional 22 Myanmar refugees were relocated to Korea in December 2015. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government plans to bring in some 30 Myanmar refugees currently in Thailand and grant them permanent settlement, in accordance with an U.N. agency program, officials said Monday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees resettlement program transfers refugees living in temporary camps in an asylum country [...]
FAIRFIELD, Conn., June 27, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–The number of Syrians clandestinely crossing the Mediterranean has risen dramatically since March, with thousands more families likely to attempt the dangerous passage this summer, as the “boat season” gets underway. Save the Children’s latest report, “The Boat is Safe” and Other Lies: Why Syrian Families are Risking Everything to [...]