Refugees who came to Jeju Island

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Two Yemenis in Jeju granted refugee status... Recognition rate is '0.41%' out of 484 people
Hankyoreh
Among the Yemeni refugee applicants who arrived in the Jeju area in groups starting last December, only 0.41% were recognized as refugees. South Korea has faced the disgrace of remaining among the lowest-ranking countries in terms of refugee recognition rates. The Jeju Immigration and Foreigner Office (Commissioner Kim Do-kyun) [reported that] out of the Yemeni refugee applicants in Jeju, 85 had not yet received a decision...
Do you remember the 2018 case involving about 500 Yemeni refugees in Jeju?
Only 2 were recognized as refugees, but 412 were granted humanitarian stay permits..
It seems difficult to get recognized as a refugee, but humanitarian stay permits seem to be granted easily.
It looks like humanitarian stay permits are renewed once a year.
Refugee status is renewed once every three years... It seems there are almost no cases where it isn't renewed, even if they commit a crime.
There is even an article saying that even when a refugee caused a fatal accident while drunk driving, their refugee status continued to be renewed. The reason given is that there is nowhere to send them.
They obviously cannot be sent back to their home country, and it is said that no third country welcomes them either.
This is an article from May 16, 2026.