South Korea accepts 'Afghan friends' despite hostility to refugees

Moon cites 'moral responsibility' to Afghans who worked with Koreans

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Afghan evacuees who supported the South Korean government's activities in Afghanistan, arrive at Incheon International Airport in South Korea on Thursday. © Reuters

STEVEN BOROWIEC, Nikkei staff writer

SEOUL -- Announcing the arrival of 378 people from Afghanistan in South Korea, Justice Minister Park Beom-gye referred to them not as refugees but as "our Afghan friends."

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