Seoul: South Korea will raise the travel alert for Bolivia's Cochabamba region starting next month due to growing instability from intensifying anti-government protests and rising organized crime, the foreign ministry announced Monday. A Level 3 travel alert, urging citizens to leave the country, will be applied to Cochabamba beginning July 1, escalating from the previous Level 2 advisory, which recommended avoiding travel to the area.
According to Yonhap News Agency, the revision is part of the government's routine travel alert adjustments for the first half of the year. In contrast, travel advisories for regions in Malaysia, Armenia, Algeria, and Chile will be lowered by one level, advising either against travel to those areas or recommending caution when visiting.
The government will also extend by one year the travel ban for nine countries and ten other regions, including Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Sudan, and Haiti, as well as parts of the Philippines, Russia's Kursk region, Myanmar, Laos, and the border regions of Israel and Lebanon.