The Foreign Ministry says it will tighten entry visa regulations for Chinese students entering Korea:
“We are going to talk with the related authorities over steps to toughen the issuance of entry visas for Chinese students and other Chinese people,” said Moon Tae-young, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The tough stance comes as public anger shows little signs of subsiding over violence committed by Chinese demonstrators on South Korean activists protesting Beijing’s crackdown on Tibetan separatists, and its treatment of North Korean refugees.
This also comes after the Hanguk Ilbo ran a piece noting that 31,829 of Korea’s 49,270 foreign students — two out of three — are Chinese, but the Chinese basically pay their way in with little in the way of academic requirements. Nine of 10 Chinese students in Korea, in fact, come to Korea through overseas study institutes in China, some of which forge documents so that undesirable students can enter the country. Then there are all the Chinese “students” who hardly attend class, instead focusing their attention on finding work.
In particular, regional colleges have been quite aggressive in recruiting Chinese students, but now, some schools — regarding Chinese students as problematic — are refusing to take any students from China.
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Well…I’m a bit cynical about the motives behind that article. In my experience, the Chinese students are polite and very studious.
…I meant the second article.
In agreement with #1, and and I’m also cynical that Korean universities, so desperate for foreign students, will turn away Chinese money. Sounds like another false promise to placate the angry masses.
#3,
Yes, totally. Besides, turning all of them away because of a few bad apples would be unethical.
Exactly someguyinkorea. It would be unethical. And we all know that the prime concern in the minds of korean decision makers is ethics.
Is the korean pride restored yet??
So the government lets them rampage through the city and then goes oh no! our pride is gone.
Oh second thought they might be trying to break the pro-China sentiment thats lingering in Korea.
#5,
Maybe not, but it certainly will come up (it helps that the unethical solution will cost universities money).
Meanwhile Chinese hackers still run their attacks through Korea and the Koreans that run the internet backbone out of Korea still have price-tags dangling from their ears . . . a bit like the guys who were just busted at Hanaro.
And yet they’ll still have to do less than someone getting an E2 visa…
#4. Ruined because of a few bad apples…? Yes, that’s exactly what I said after 911… Unethical treatment of air travellers because of a few bad apples… ha.
You behave in a collectivistic fashion you get attacked and treated in one.
If your Chinese dont whine for the individual.
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