to fears over the coronavirus Seoul's foreign ministry is working to reduce

the inconvenience caused to Koreans traveling overseas our home yield

reports at least 80 countries or regions within countries are restricting the

entry of people coming from South Korea that is more than 40% of UN member

states who have restricted entry either through stronger quarantine measures or

outright entry bans 36 countries have imposed an entry ban with turkey joining

the group on Sunday in Vietnam one of South Korea's major new southern policy

partner states has stopped visa-free entry for Koreans and imposed a total

entry ban for South Koreans that have departed from or transferred in tegu or

gyeongsang-do province Koreans with visas who are coming from a different

region have to self quarantine for two weeks this decision comes right after

Seoul's foreign minister kang dongwon and her Vietnamese counterpart discussed

the issue over the phone Seoul's foreign ministry has also lodged a complaint

over Viet Nam's unannounced ban on Korean flights landing in that country

an Asiana Airlines flight was turned back while enroute to Hanoi on Saturday

after authorities there refused to let the plane land the ministry summoned the

vietnamese ambassador to Seoul to complain about the inconvenience cost

and 44 other countries along with some parts of China have strengthened their

entrance screening procedures kazahstan in Nigeria are the latest to up their

screenings Nigeria is conducting a self quarantine for foreigners coming in from

South Korea China Italy Iran and Japan in response to a growing number of

countries restricting the enter of people travelling from South Korea the

foreign ministry is reassuring countries by informing them transparently about

the government measures to combat kovat 19 for instance foreign minister Kang

Yong Hwa's spoke with her counterpart from Canada on Monday to assure Canada

that South Korea is doing its utmost to contain the spread Canada has so far not

imposed restrictions and travelers from South Korea who knew Eddie renews