S. Korea: Soft global economy causing fewer Koreans to emigrate
May 07, 2009
The number of South Koreans seeking emigration is on the decrease, mostly due to a declining global economy that has forced countries to tighten their immigration quotas, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.
'It is not because less people are trying to emigrate, but because countries, citing their rising unemployment rates amid the economic recession, are choosing to freeze their immigration quotas,' said Choi Dae-hee of the ministry's consul services department.
In particular, the phenomenon was marked in countries such as the United States, Canada and New Zealand, which are popular destinations for Koreans and also the nations with the strictest immigration regulations, Choi said.
The Korea Herald
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