SEOUL, Apr. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — His major league career once in limbo over a drunk driving conviction, embattled South Korean infielder Kang Jung-ho is finally set to rejoin the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates announced Thursday (local time) that Kang has been granted a U.S. work visa and has re-entered the country. After missing the [...]
SYDNEY, Australia, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — There was collective concern expressed this week amongst members of the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC) over the impact of recent changes to immigration regulations. It was agreed the changes may detrimentally affect Australia’s ability to attract high calibre global talent. The AESC members are [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will restrict the visa extensions of foreigners who default on tax payments as part of nationwide efforts to reduce tax dodgers, the government said Monday. The Ministry of Justice said it will share all of the tax information of foreign residents here in South Korea with the [...]
INCHEON, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has stopped issuing or extending visas for Chinese language instructors at the local branch of a Chinese non-governmental organization affiliated with its education ministry, sources said Wednesday. The Ministry of Justice has not issued or extended the one-year E-2 teaching visa for instructors at Confucius Institute in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will ease regulations on visa screening procedures for young foreigners who get jobs at selected manufacturing businesses in a way to tackle the labor shortage, the government said Monday. Foreign students who are studying in South Korea and want to work in the country’s “root” industries such [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Friday that it will issue multiple entry visas for Chinese travelers who buy expensive vacation packages, the latest in a series of Seoul’s attempts to attract rich Chinese tourists. The government said Chinese — who purchase a travel package worth more than 3 million won (US$2,500) [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s government said Friday it is test operating a visa waiver program for foreign tourists entering the country via three selected cruise ships in the next six months. The Ministry of Justice said passengers of those cruise ships — Costa Serena, Sapphire Princess and Quantum of the Seas [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) agreed on a visa-waiver program that will allow people to travel to each other’s country without a visa for up to three months, the foreign ministry said Thursday. A memorandum of understanding on the visa waiver was signed at a meeting [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of people overstaying their visas in the country has persistently increased, with it posting 213,232 among 2,034,878 entrants as of July, data from the Justice Ministry said Thursday. The July figure was a 27 percent rise from 167,780 in 2011. However, the ratio of overstayers to entrants [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A Chinese visa agency that handled South Korean business travelers was stripped of its business license, a move that could be seen as a retaliatory measure undertaken by Beijing after South Korea’s decision to deploy an advanced United States missile defense system on its soil, a local source here [...]