South Korea has received more than 120,000 refugee applications since its asylum system was introduced just over 30 years ago ...

SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Yonhap) -- More than 120,000 people have filed for asylum in South Korea since the country began accepting ...

Korea has granted refugee status to 1,544 asylum-seekers since the system’s introduction nearly 30 years ago, officials said ...

1969 -- The Korean Central Intelligence Agency announces its arrest of Lee Su-geun, a North Korean spy who entered South Korea posing as a defector in 1967. Lee was executed on July 3, 1969. 2000 -- ...

Koo Byoungsam, spokesperson of South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, said facilitating the asylum of the North Korean soldiers would require “legal reviews ...

South Korea's National Intelligence Service informed lawmakers that two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces have not expressed a desire to seek asylum in South Korea. More Korean ...

Photo: Jan. 12. 2025. The two North Korean troops captured by Ukraine expressed no desire to seek asylum in South Korea, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) spy agency said on Monday. Follow ...

South Korea's impeached president ... in Russia’s Kursk border region haven’t expressed a desire to seek asylum in South Korea. South Korea’s anti-corruption agency says it has received ...

South Korea’s spy agency has confirmed two North Korean soldiers captured behind enemy lines by Ukrainian forces have not expressed interest in seeking asylum in the democratic South.

adding that Korea has much fewer asylum-seekers from Afghanistan, Syria, South Sudan and Ukraine compared with the countries in Europe. “Korea has proactively accepted many asylum-seekers who ...