Further travel bans have been applied to local travel agencies in the city of Shenyang in China from issuing visas for Chinese travellers coming to South Korea. 

Shenyang is the largest city in Liaoning Province of China. 

This has become the first of China’s prohibition of individual visas for South Korea following China’s restriction of issuing group 'tour visas' in March. 

“Following the tacit order not to issue visas to Chinese groups intending to travel to South Korea, the city of Shenyang handed down the first order, banning issuance of individual visas,” a local travel industry official from China said. 

These actions are believed to be in retaliation for South Korea’s deployment of Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD), a high-tech U.S. defence system.

“It is mainly intended for explicit advertisement of visas for individual traders, but seems also be in retaliation for the THAAD deployment,” the official added. 

As Moon Jae-in rose to presidency, he has inherited the THAAD problems from his disgraced predecessor who was impeached and removed from office in March. 

Moon stated that the decision to deploy THAAD was rushed through and paused any further deployments. However, the two systems that were already set were to stay.

Since its deployment China has shut down 87 of 99 of Lotte department stores, and blocked Lotte’s web site in China. 

In addition, it has stopped work on South Korean-funded theme park. 

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