South Korea's foreign ministry announced Friday that it is lifting special travel advisories for parts of Thailand, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Ethiopia, citing reduced security and health risks in those areas.

For Thailand, the ministry lifted the special advisory — which urges citizens to cancel or postpone trips unless essential — for seven provinces near the Thailand-Cambodia border, and downgraded the travel alert to Level 1, which calls for caution. The move comes after months of elevated tensions along that border, where armed clashes between Thai and Cambodian forces had flared earlier this year before the two sides moved toward a ceasefire.

Special travel advisories are temporary measures issued separately from the government's standard four-tier travel alert system, which ranges from Level 1 (caution) to Level 4 (evacuation ban), applying to countries facing immediate, short-term risks. They remain in effect for up to 90 days and can be extended if the risks persist.

The ministry said special advisories for checkpoint areas bordering Laos and Myanmar will remain in place, in order to protect South Korean nationals from widespread job scams and potential forced confinement in the region. Such scams — often lured by fake online job offers — have become a persistent regional problem that both Seoul and the United Nations have warned travelers about.

The special advisory issued for parts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, will also be lifted, as no active Ebola cases have been found there.

Similar restrictions will be removed for select areas in Azerbaijan and Turkey, where no further drone or missile strikes have been reported amid the broader Middle East conflicts. The affected advisories had been issued during an earlier period when regional airspace and border areas faced heightened strike risk.