South Korea’s Yoon Suk-yeol administration wants to bring in top foreign talent to bolster the country’s declining population and drive its economy forward. But transforming what has historically been a closed society into an immigration destination won’t be easy.

To achieve the goals the new government has set forth, the country really needed immigration reform yesterday. South Korea is a rapidly aging society: Koreans live long lives and don’t have many children.

Recognizing the need for change, justice minister Han Dong-hoon is considering a new agency to act as a “control tower”to get ahold of the best and