Korean Refugee

A South Korean pastor once hailed as a hero for helping North Korean defectors escape to safety has been jailed for sexually abusing minors, CNN reported.

South Korea will tighten its refugee laws, it said Friday, after protests over the arrival of hundreds of asylum-seekers who fled war-ravaged Yemen for its southern resort island of Jeju.

South Korea is investigating the case of a North Korean defector who became a celebrity refugee in Seoul, but recently appeared on Pyongyang television to claim she had returned home from the "hell" of the capitalist South.

South Korea has spent decades screening refugees from a hostile neighbour but some enemy agents manage to get through, underlining the challenges Western nations face in dealing with a far larger influx of people escaping the war in Syria.

A former Canadian immigration judge was today found guilty of trying to coerce sex from a South Korean woman in exchange for granting her asylum, the court said.Ontario Superior Court Justice Thea Herman ruled former Immigration and Refugee Board judge Steve Ellis, 50, was guilty of breach of trust and bribery in relation to the refugee application...

A South Korean pastor once hailed as a hero for helping North Korean defectors escape to safety has been jailed for sexually abusing minors, CNN reported.

South Korea will tighten its refugee laws, it said Friday, after protests over the arrival of hundreds of asylum-seekers who fled war-ravaged Yemen for its southern resort island of Jeju.

South Korea is investigating the case of a North Korean defector who became a celebrity refugee in Seoul, but recently appeared on Pyongyang television to claim she had returned home from the "hell" of the capitalist South.

South Korea has spent decades screening refugees from a hostile neighbour but some enemy agents manage to get through, underlining the challenges Western nations face in dealing with a far larger influx of people escaping the war in Syria.

A former Canadian immigration judge was today found guilty of trying to coerce sex from a South Korean woman in exchange for granting her asylum, the court said.Ontario Superior Court Justice Thea Herman ruled former Immigration and Refugee Board judge Steve Ellis, 50, was guilty of breach of trust and bribery in relation to the refugee application...