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The Korean government has imposed a ban on foreign travel for public servants, according to the Money Today Thursday. The economic daily claimed that the Office of Prime Minister (OPM) issued a directive to all ministries last week that prohibits government employees from travelling abroad for holiday in July and August.

The OPM denied the report later in the day after all the damage has been done and nearly all of the nation’s media outlets had churned out what it claims “misleading” reports.

A senior OPM official replied that it could not promptly respond to the media as his ministry had to check all the necessary facts before making a statement.

Yet, the official said he could not provide any information as to speculations that such an instruction was made by certain government ministries, rather than the OPM.

“We only checked whether such an instruction was made by us or not,” he said. “It is not our business and responsibility to check what other ministries did or not.”

When asked whether the OPM has requested to make a correction to the Money Today, he said “No, suggesting that his office has done everything it could to dodge the blame of coercing public servants from travelling abroad.