To strengthen immigration control, South Korea will start fingerprinting long-term residents in the country.  For foreigners entering the countries, anyone aged 17 or older and who are staying for 91 consecutive days or longer must provide all 10 of their fingerprints as well as facial information. Foreigners already in the country must get fingerprinted at the local immigration offices.
The Justice Ministry hopes to use the data to identify foreigners in cases of crime or accident and to manage social security systems for foreigners.  They expect about 200,000 foreigners to have registered their fingerprints by the end of this year.