South Korea bans 36,000 foreigners from entering for Winter Olympics: Yonhap

People walk before the Olympic Rings during sunrise on Gyeongpo beach in Gangneung, the host city of the ice venues for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, on February 5, 2018. (AFP)

SEOUL: 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.