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Critics slam South Korea for denying refugee status to Yemenis
That’s exactly the kind of thing critics do, and sometimes they’re right.
[DAWN] South Korean progressives on Thursday accused the government of caving into xenophobic sentiment by rejecting a plea for refugee status by hundreds of asylum seekers from war-ravaged Yemen, whose arrival on a resort island earlier this year fired up the rubes.

Justice Party front man Choi Seok said South Korea was neglecting its responsibility as a member of the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
 and letting public sentiment influence critical decisions on human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
"The Yemeni refugees have risked every danger to come to our country, just so that they could survive," Choi said.

"It's no different from the people of our own country half a century ago when they wandered around foreign countries as refugees through war and division. We should no longer ignore the voices of people who seek to live."

South Korea's Justice Ministry on Wednesday said it would not grant refugee status to nearly 400 Yemenis, saying instead it would issue one-year humanitarian stays to 339 of them.

The ministry rejected stay permits for 34 asylum seekers but said they could appeal, and postponed decisions for another 85 applicants, citing the need for further interviews.


Posted by: Fred 2018-10-19
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=525675