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In South Korea, immigration policy is handled by the immigration services of the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The Nationality Act, Immigration Control Act, Multicultural Families Support Act, and the Framework Act on Treatment of Foreigners are the ...
Immigration to South Korea. Immigration to South Korea ( Korean: 한국으로의 이민) is low due to restrictive immigration policies resulting from strong opposition to immigrants from the general Korean public. [ 1] However, in recent years with the loosening of the law, influx of immigrants into South Korea has been on the rise, with ...
Politics of South Korea. The visa policy of South Korea allows citizens of certain countries to enter South Korea without a visa (Korea Electronic Travel Authorization (K-ETA) or without a K-ETA at all. Citizens of certain other countries are required to have a visa from one of the South Korean diplomatic missions. [ 1][ 2]
This is a list of visas issued by South Korea. The government of South Korea, through the Ministry of Justice's "Korea Immigration Service," issues one of these visas to all non-citizens entering the country. In 2005, 5,179,848 visas were issued, not including military and landing-permit visas, a slight increase over the previous year.
South Korea joined the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in 1992 and became the first country in East Asia to enact its own refugee law in 2012. [ 1] According to the Ministry of Justice in South Korea, there has been 12,208 asylum applicants since 1992 and it accepted 522 (4.2% of the total applicants) as refugees. [ 2]
The Constitution of South Korea entrusts the National Assembly with the responsibility of establishing laws which govern citizenship. The Nationality Act of 1948 was the first piece of legislation enacted by the National Assembly which established the boundaries for acquisition of South Korean citizenship.
South Korean nationality law (Korean: 국적법) details the conditions in which an individual is a national of the Republic of Korea (ROK), commonly known as South Korea. . Foreign nationals may naturalize after living in the country for at least five years and showing proficiency in the Korean langua
Migrant workers in South Korea do not receive any sort of payment if they have a deportation order. [7] Even if an employer owes them a certain amount of money, that employer is not forced under South Korean law to pay them. [7] Deportation from South Korea also runs the risk of a 10-year re-entry ban to those who receive the punishment.