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Incheon National University. Photo: Korea Times

In addition, ways to give such stayers better stay status in the future will be mapped out.

The efforts are part of measures to manage illegal foreigners that the ministry announced earlier in the day in order to counter a rapid increase in illegal foreigners and establish order for sojourning.

According to the measures, illegal aliens who are caught in crackdowns will be fined in order to head off the new influx of illegal stayers, with punishment against their employers to be toughened as well.

From a perspective of protecting human rights, deportation will be deferred for a certain period for illegal female stayers who are pregnant and voluntarily report to the authorities.

According to Korea Times, police are searching for 164 Vietnamese students enrolled at Incheon National University's Korean language school after they have been unaccounted for 15 days.

The university reported this to police on Tuesday, in accordance with a law mandating universities to report foreign students skipping classes for 15 days.

The students are among 1,900 Vietnamese students on a one-year Korean language training program at the university. The program began four months ago, said the school.

Police believe the genuine purpose of coming to Korea was to get a job after learning Korean for a short time.

Many people from developing countries in Southeast Asia have settled here this way in pursuit of big money despite the risk of a crackdown by authorities, maltreatment and exploitation by employers./.