South Koreans Advised to Avoid Russia

March 12, 2010

South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has recommended that its citizens refrain from traveling to Russia because of a risk of violence against them, Itar-Tass reported Thursday.

The warning came after a South Korean student was seriously wounded in an attack by three masked young men in Moscow, the report said. Last month, another South Korean student was killed in the Altai regional capital, Barnaul, by three young men.

A total of 934 students from South Korea were studying in Russia in 2009, the Korea Times newspaper reported, citing figures by the South Korean Ministry of Science and Technology.

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