Korea still ‘too exclusive’ toward foreigners, immigration lawyers’ chief says

South Korea needs to make its immigration system more flexible if it wants to retain foreign talent and reduce cases in which foreign workers are pushed into undocumented status, the newly elected head of the Korean Immigration Lawyers Association said. Park Bum-il, who was elected president of the group on April 28, said the country remains “too exclusive” toward foreign nationals despite a growing foreign population. “I think it is difficult to say South Korea is very open to foreigners,” Park

By The Korea Herald