MOFA urges South Korea to promptly correct inappropriate designation for Taiwan in electronic entry system

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and the Taipei Mission in Korea continue to express their profound concerns and engage in dialogue and negotiations with South Korea regarding the inappropriate designation for Taiwan in the previous departure place and next destination fields in South Korea’s electronic entry system. MOFA publicly calls on South Korea to respond to this matter by March 31.

MOFA states that if South Korea fails to provide a positive response by the specified date, the country’s English designation in the drop-down menus for the place of birth and place of residence fields on the Taiwan Arrival Card will be changed from Korea, Republic of to KOREA (SOUTH) effective April 1. This will be done in accordance with Taiwan’s firm position of safeguarding national dignity and upholding the principle of reciprocity.

MOFA emphasizes that the peoples of Taiwan and South Korea have long enjoyed close and friendly interactions in such domains as the economy, trade, culture, tourism, and personnel exchanges. Taiwan greatly values this hard-won friendship and, on the basis of mutual respect and reciprocity, hopes that South Korea will take Taiwan’s request seriously and promptly rectify the situation to maintain the positive development of bilateral relations.