JEONJU, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Faced with a continuing population decline, the government of North Jeolla Province announced on March 18 that it would introduce a region-specific visa program aimed at attracting skilled foreign workers and ethnic Koreans living abroad. The new visa policy seeks to ease requirements for certain qualified foreigners and overseas Koreans, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of every 10 foreigners who entered South Korea on a language study visa turned into illegal immigrants, data showed Tuesday. Out of the total 64,904 foreigners staying in South Korea as of June after entering the country on the D-4 General Trainee Visa, 25,898, or 39.9 percent, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s finance ministry said Monday it plans to lift visa processing fees for Chinese tourists through the end of this year and increase the number of flights in line with efforts to attract more Chinese visitors. The latest move came three weeks after China’s tourism authorities announced the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will resume issuing short-term visas for travelers from China this weekend, a ranking government official said Friday. The government made the decision to restart issuing visas Saturday as China’s COVID-19 infection wave has peaked and begun to subside, Kim Seong-ho, an interior ministry official, said during a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — As more than 15 countries have imposed stricter quarantine measures against travelers coming from China, Beijing has recently suspended all issuance of short-term, transit visas and visas on arrival to Korean and Japanese nationals. Beijing explained that the measure was based on the principle of reciprocity. However, there are views [...]
SEOUL/BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — China announced the suspension Tuesday of its short-term visa service for South Koreans in retaliation against Seoul’s regulations on entries from the neighbor with increasing COVID-19 infections. The Chinese Embassy in Seoul made public the decision in a post on its WeChat account, citing an “instruction” from Beijing for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean government is pushing to introduce a new visa for foreign talent as well as to greatly ease visa requirements in the high-tech sector as part of efforts to address a labor shortage. The Ministry of Justice announced that it will introduce a new E-7-S visa for those [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A constitutional appeal has been filed against the Immigration Control Act that allows only those from eight English-speaking countries to work as native English instructors in South Korea, officials said Friday. Migrants Center Friend, an immigrant rights’ group, filed the petition after a Ugandan was denied a visa to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Saturday that it will restrict visa issuance and arrivals from eight African nations, including South Africa, starting the next day to block the inflow of the new Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. It said South Africa and seven other nearby countries — Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean passport was found to be the third most effective one for travelers around the world, allowing its bearers to travel to 191 countries visa-free, data showed Sunday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy and Germany tied for third, only after Japan and Singapore, in the latest edition of the [...]