55 Thai Tourists Disappear on Jeju Island
There must be enough work for illegal immigrants on Jeju Island for 55 people from Thailand to disappear like this:
The whereabouts of 55 out of 280 Thai tourists who entered South Korea earlier this week through the airport on the southern island of Jeju are unknown, immigration officials said Sunday.
Out of 697 Thai nationals who arrived at the Jeju International Airport from Bangkok through a direct Jeju Airlines flight between Tuesday and Friday, 417 were denied entry and were flown home, according to the Jeju Immigration Service.
Of the other 280 people who have entered the country for a three-day tourism program, 55 have broken away from their tour groups and disappeared, officials said. The immigration office said it was trying to figure out where they went.
Officials said that many of the Thai tourists chose to enter South Korea through Jeju as they have a record of being denied entry through other airports, including the country’s main gateway, Incheon International Airport.
Yonhap
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seems to be a flaw in Korean immigration…..
Self-inflicted wounds bite…
OTOH, the 55 illegals might be more staunchly pro-capitalist / anti-communist than the average college student…
Or they might be nork spies.
There are a lot of farms in Jeju and considering that young Jeju people are either working in the tourist industry or have gone to Seoul to seek better work, those farms would probably welcome an influx of cheap labor willing to do the hard work.
That and your neighborhood Thai massuese, assuming there are females among the 55.
Of course they may have decided to board the next ferry to the mainland where there are more available jobs.
Tok, your definition of “better work” might be strange. What could be better work that working on a farm in the fresh air, better yet your own farm?
Flyingsword.
Korean kids prefer to work in air conditioned offices for major corporation such as LG. Samsung, and Hyundai rather than spend their days doing manual labor under the sun.
For them that is better work not to mention the steady paycheck that comes their way.
to their demise