Korean MM & Age - "a bitter truth"

The Japanese Embassy rejected all applications from Korean women age 26 or older for working holiday visas this year in an apparent bid to fight prostitution, sources said Sunday. The measure follows reports that Korean women have misused such visas to work as prostitutes in Japan. A consular official at the embassy in Seoul denied that working visa requests from women were being rejected for that reason. He said that the embassy screened the applicants with its own criteria through its website only. Japan requires working holiday visa applicants to be between 18 and 25 years of age in principle, but accepts people up to age 30 under “exceptional circumstances. ” The consular official refused to specify what might constitute such circumstances. [source: http://www.koreatimesus.com/japa ... en-age-26-or-older/]