Posted : 2021-04-05 14:59
Updated : 2021-04-05 17:00
Demonstrators march during an anti-military coup protest in Mandalay, Myanmar, April 5, 2021. At least 550 people have been killed by the military since the coup, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), as anti-coup protests continue despite the intensifying violent crackdowns on demonstrators by security forces. EPA-Yonhap
The government could consider banning travel to Myanmar and arrange additional temporary flights to help South Koreans leave the country if the political unrest there worsens, a foreign ministry official said Monday.
The government has helped organize one or two temporary flights a week from the Southeast Asian nation since the Feb. 1 military coup that plunged the nation into turmoil. So far, a total of 411 out of some 3,500 South Koreans living there have returned home on those flights, according to the official.