SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea plans to resume issuing short-term visas to travelers from China, South Korean officials said on Friday.
Seoul last month suspended the issuance of short-term visas for visitors from China due to Beijing lifting its “zero-Covid” policy.
China, then in the grip of a new epidemic wave, had responded by suspending the issuance of visas for South Korean travelers.
South Korean Deputy Interior Minister Kim Sung-ho announced that the government had decided to resume issuing visas after the number of cases of contamination among travelers arriving from China dropped drastically.
(Report Hyonhee Shin and Choonsik Yoo; French version Camille Raynaud)
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