S Korea bans 36000 foreigners from entering for Olympics
International Desk Published: 5 February 2018, 11:01 AM
| Updated: 5 February 2018, 11:02 AM
South Korea has banned 36,000 foreigners from entering the country ahead of the Winter Olympics, citing security concerns, Yonhap News Agency said on Monday.
Yonhap cited a South Korean lawmaker as saying the spy agency had told lawmakers it was working with foreign intelligence agencies to beef up foreign nationals’ identity checks as an anti-terrorism plan for the Olympics.
Source: Reuters
