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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will terminate its temporary service that allows foreign spouses of South Koreans whose short-term visas are close to expiry to apply for marriage migrant visas while staying in the country, starting next week, the justice ministry said Monday. South Korea has temporarily allowed foreign spouses who entered [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to allow more foreign students to work here from 2022 as part of its efforts to tackle population decline, officials said Thursday. If a foreigner graduates from a university of engineering or science in South Korea, the foreigner will get a non-professional employment visa, or E-9 [...]
BEIJING/SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — China has agreed to resume visa issuance for South Korean students, employees hired to work in the country and those with residence permits, Seoul’s top envoy in Beijing said Monday. Ambassador Jang Ha-sung told reporters that the two countries have recently agreed on visa issuance for the three groups: [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea began to suspend visa issuance and non-scheduled flights to restrict entry from Pakistan and Bangladesh Tuesday in the face of a spike in new coronavirus cases imported from the two nations. The government decided on Sunday to stop issuing new visas to nationals of Pakistan and Bangladesh, [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will suspend visa-free entry and visa waiver programs for 90 countries imposing entry bans on South Koreans from Monday next week as part of efforts to curb the coronavirus inflow from overseas, officials said Thursday. Along with the planned suspension of visa exemptions, all 90-day visas that [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has extended visas for foreigners set to expire soon to prevent them from visiting immigration offices amid the coronavirus pandemic, the justice ministry said Thursday. Under the move, visas for around 60,000 registered foreign nationals that are set to expire by May 31 have been automatically extended [...]