Seoul may allow up to 800 Afghan citizens who are already in South Korea or helped its projects in Afghanistan to live in the country, but is highly sceptical about a US plan to host refugees at its Korean military bases.
Despite being 5,000km away from Afghanistan and having played a relatively minor role in the US-led debacle there, South Korea faces some of the same moral dilemmas after the Taliban takeover of the country. On Tuesday, a senior government official said Seoul is considering allowing some 400 Afghanistan citizens who are currently on South Korean soil to legally stay in the country.
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