Gov't to allow businesspeople to enter Ukraine for reconstruction projects

▲ This photo taken on Jan. 7, 2023, shows a building in which Samsung Electronics Co. has an office in Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, after it suffered a missile attack from Russia in October. (Yonhap)

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Gov't to allow businesspeople to enter Ukraine for reconstruction projects

SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- The government plans to allow businesspeople to enter Ukraine for reconstruction projects by making exceptions to the travel ban on the war-torn country, officials said Sunday.

The decision was part of measures that the government is taking after President Yoon Suk Yeol made a surprise visit to Ukraine earlier this month and promised to provide a package of security, humanitarian and reconstruction assistance.

Since February last year, the government has been maintaining a travel ban for all of Ukraine. But the government plans to exceptionally allow businesspeople to enter the country for the post-war reconstruction programs, officials said.

This is not the first time for the government to allow Korean businesses to enter a war-torn country.

In 2007, the government imposed a travel ban on Iraq, but Korean companies have traveled to the country with the exceptional use of their passports.

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