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Masked law enforcement officers, including HSI and ICE agents, walk into an immigration court in Phoenix, Arizona, on May 21, 2025, in this file photo. [REUTERS/YONHAP]

U.S. gives ICE authority to detain and revet refugees waiting on green cards

The Trump administration has given immigration officers broader powers to detain legal refugees awaiting a green card to ensure they are “revetted,” an apparent expansion of the president's wide-ranging crackdown on legal and illegal immigration.

2026.2.19

Actor and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador Theo James, left, meets Malian physics professor and refugee Mohamed Ag Malha at the Mbera Refugee Camp in Mauritania on Oct. 8, 2024. The UNHCR estimates that there are over 262,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Mauritania, a country that has been hard hit by global warming. [UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES]

Theo James, actor and UNHCR goodwill ambassador, invokes family history in call for Korean support of refugees

British actor Theo James has turned a family history of flight to safety into a personal mission as a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees goodwill ambassador, praising Korea's efforts while urging the world to do more.

2025.11.23

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, center, speaks at UNHCR Korea's office in Jung District, central Seoul, on Oct. 17. [UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES]

'Koreans know what it means to be a refugee,' says UNHCR chief in Seoul

What Korea and Japan need is a sound asylum system allowing refugees to become self-reliant and gain better access to social resources and opportunities, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said.

2025.10.20

Deputy Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs Kweon Ki-hwan, right, and Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, hold a meeting in Seoul on Oct. 16. [MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS]

Korea, UNHCR discuss responses to global refugee crisis

The foreign ministry said Thursday it has discussed ways to resolve the global refugee crisis sparked by recent geopolitical conflicts with the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

2025.10.16

A Sudanese refugee who arrived to Libya a year ago after fleeing conflict in Sudan, plays in front of the UNHCR office in Tripoli, Libya, on Aug. 7 in this photo unrelated to the story. [AP/YONHAP]

IOM says at least 50 dead after vessel carrying Sudanese refugees caught fire off Libya

The International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday that at least 50 people had died after a vessel carrying 75 Sudanese refugees caught fire off Libya's coast on Sunday.

2025.9.17

Refugees loads their belongings into trucks as they leave the Tine transit camp in Chad's Wadi Fara province for Iridimi refugee camp on May 3. [AP/YONHAP]

Sudan civil war overwhelms border town in Chad as refugees find little help

Fatima Omas Abdullah wakes up every morning with aches and pains from sleeping on bare ground for almost two years. She did not expect Sudan's civil war to displace her for so long into neighboring Chad.

2025.6.29

Vice Minister of the Interior and Safety Kim Min-jae, center, speaks while presiding over the first meeting of the government task force on consumer relief coupons at Government Complex Sejong in Sejong on June 23. [NEWS1]

Refugees may be eligible for consumer relief benefits in policy shift

The government is considering allowing recognized refugees to receive benefits under its 13.2 trillion won consumer relief initiative, a shift that would mark a departure from previous policies that excluded them from public support programs.

2025.6.24

Tanya Korbuchak, 41, front, and Iryna Nyblytsia, 46, two Ukrainian refugees work in the kitchen of Haru, a Korean restaurant in Warsaw, Poland. [JOONGANG ILBO]

Ukrainian refugees find solace through cooking Korean cuisine in Warsaw

In a Korean restaurant in Warsaw, two Ukrainian women displaced by war have found healing and purpose through cooking bibimbap and bulgogi — serving not just food but resilience and hope for a future they still dream of returning to.

2025.5.15

The conference room of the United Nations Human Rights Council is seen in this image captured from UN Web TV [YONHAP]

UN agencies for food, refugees plan deep cuts as funding plummets

The United Nations agencies for food and refugees are planning deep cuts due to unprecedented funding shortfalls, with the former set to reduce its work force by up to 30 percent, affecting up to 6,000 jobs.

2025.4.25

Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon responds to questions from lawmakers during a meeting at the National Assembly in Seoul on Dec. 7. [NEWS1]

Applicants who pose 'national security threat' to be denied refugee status

An amendment to the Refugee Act will bar anyone considered a “threat to national security” from becoming a refugee in Korea starting next year, according to the Justice Ministry...

2023.12.14