{"id":442,"date":"2026-03-26T08:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/?page_id=442"},"modified":"2026-03-27T06:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:16:08","slug":"welcome-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have difficulty reading, please use the text-to-speech feature on your mobile phone. This accessibility tool will read the screen out loud for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For iPhone Users: Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/iphone\/spoken-content-iph96b214f0\/ios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For Androids Users: Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/accessibility\/android\/answer\/7349565?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, created this website for refugees and asylum seekers in the Republic of Korea. On this website, you will find information about:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u27a1<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/applying-for-asylum-2\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/applying-for-asylum-2\/\">&nbsp;How you can apply for asylum (refugee status) in Korea&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u27a1&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/services-in-korea\/\">Where to find help&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u27a1&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/rights-and-treatment\/\">Your rights and the treatment you can expect<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u27a1&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/unhcr_korea\/\">UNHCR\u2019s role and activities in Korea&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u27a1&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/contact\/\">Contact UNHCR in Korea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This page will be continually updated.&nbsp;You can come back to check for new information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-becac7e963a3afeb427008c66d4cea4d\" style=\"background-color:#fdf799\"><strong>Please rembember that ALL services provided by UNHCR are FREE of charge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Information for specific groups:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Are you in Afghanistan?<\/strong> : Please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Afghanistan Help Website<\/a>. UNHCR does help Afghans inside Afghanistan, but&nbsp;<strong>cannot help them leave the country<\/strong>. On the above link, you can find links to evacuation\/relocation programs that have been announced for Afghans by different countries. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have difficulty reading, please use the text-to-speech feature on your mobile phone. This accessibility tool will read the screen out loud for you. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, created this website for refugees and asylum seekers in the Republic of Korea. On this website, you will find information about:&nbsp; \u27a1&nbsp;How you can apply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":616,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/listing_page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-442","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/southkorea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}