South Korea will create legal grounds to request exit bans on foreigners who fail to pay large health insurance premiums without good reason, one of 30 tasks the government reported to the Cabinet on Tuesday showed. The list is the second round of the “national normalization project,” a government-wide drive to close policy loopholes and end entrenched practices. Ministries initially proposed about 200 candidate tasks, and the first round review, announced in May, picked 164. A task force under the Prime Minister’s Office selected 30. 

The National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) will alsonotify the Justice Ministry of foreigners