Thai Citizen visiting the South Korea Warning (NO VISA WILL BE GIVEN)

[usmike]

All Thai citizens should take extreme care in visiting South Korea !!!!!!!. You will be denied entry at the Airport, and wasted the $500.00 USD KAL air ticket cost from Bangkok to Pusan.

I am an American citizen legally in South Korea on a 3 month tourist visa. I invited my Thai girlfriend to join me in Busan to take some tours. The first time she arrived she was denied entry, they said she did not have enough proof of why she wanted to visit. The second time she came back to Busan, she had all written proof of the following: proof of the tour, proof of paid room from the hotel, round trip air ticket and a guarantee letter from me, that I would cover all her costs. She was denied entry again. This time i was able to speak to the officials and they said “We do not believe anything a Thai person says. Even with documents they do not trust what is presented.” They then state I could not serve as a grantee since i do not live there.

There were 20 Thai people that were denied entry on that flight and all were returned to Thailand.

I checked with the South Korean Embassy in Bangkok about getting a visa issues in Thailand and was told that I must get the visa on arrival in Korea.

Basically this whole business is a scam. They do not want Thai people to come into their country. Officials claim Thai citizens do illegal things in Korea and will overstay their visas.

They use the “visa on arrival” as a scam to get you to purchase round trip tickets from Korea Air Lines. They use the round trip airline ticket to return you home.

I am now out over $1,000.00 USD in air ticket costs and time; and my girlfriend out days to traveling to Korea for no purpose.

Why is the Thailand government allowing this to happen; thousands of Thai nationals are being disrespected.

Do not visit South Korea. Complain to the Korean Embassy and get the Thai government to protest to the South Korean government. Make people aware of this injustice.

[dageurreotype]

Officials claim Thai citizens do illegal things in Korea and will overstay their visas.

Many years ago, I'd asked my Thai tutor 'Why the antipathy between the Thais and the Chinese' 'Because they say we are lazy and stupid' she replied. 'Poot jing nit noi chai mai?' I replied.

And no, I personally won't be 'boycotting S.Korea' because they have a problem with your Thai girlfriend.

[theoldgit]

Duplicate topic, I'll close this one.