Overseas embassies in Seoul, together with those people of the US and the Uk, have referred to as on the South Korean governing administration to grant “urgent recognition” of international nationals vaccinated overseas against Covid-19, as a dispute in excess of the country’s jabs plan intensifies.

The embassies — which also included people of Australia, Canada, India and New Zealand as well as the EU mission — stated that foreign nationals must have the “same obtain legal rights to general public facilities as those people Korean nationals fully vaccinated overseas”.

South Korea’s recent Covid-19 limitations involve proof of vaccination to enter a variety of community spaces. Vaccinations administered in the region are recognised, as are those people given overseas to South Korean nationals.

But vaccinations supplied overseas to foreign nationals, which includes all those with South Korean residency, are recognised only when the recipient has been granted a quarantine exemption to enter the nation.

South Korea on Friday halted quarantine exemptions granted to double-vaccinated intercontinental arrivals to assist avert the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

The authorities also widened its mandate to require evidence of vaccination at restaurants and cafés, even though reducing the age of exemption from 18 to 11.

The US embassy said the “discriminatory policy . . . brings undue hardship to US citizens vaccinated outside the house Korea”, introducing that it had raised it with the South Korean governing administration “at the best levels”.