Tourist group missing in SK
By Li Qian |
January 5, 2013, Saturday
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A GROUP of 19 Chinese tourists were still missing almost a week after they arrived in South Korea last Saturday, the Chinese Embassy in Seoul said yesterday.
According to South Korea's Yonhap News, the group took a cruise ship from the coastal city of Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning Province on December 28 and arrived in Incheon Port in South Korea the next day.
However, they were reported missing after spending one night in a local hostel, Yonhap reported.
Online reports said all of them are male and from Shanxi Province, it's their first visit to South Korea, and their visas would allow them to remain in South Korea for up to 15 days.
However, the provincial tourism authority denied it yesterday, saying none of them is from Shanxi Province, China News Service reported.
South Korea's exit-and-entry department is investigating whether any middlemen were involved in the group's disappearance, the Yonhap report said.
South Korean officials also have started tracing the group's whereabouts and have banned them from leaving South Korea, the report showed.
Some people believe the group that is missing might be intending to work illegally in South Korea, where it is possible to earn higher salaries, according to the Southern Metropolis Daily.
On October 17, 2010, a total of 44 Chinese tourists, from Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other provinces, deserted the Italian cruiser Costa Classica upon arriving at South Korea's Jeju Island.
Twelve of them were later repatriated to China while the rest were missing.
On May 14, 2012, a ring of five people who had arranged their smuggling and earned around 510,000 yuan (US$81,855) from it received jail terms from two to 10 years in Beijing.
According to South Korea's Yonhap News, the group took a cruise ship from the coastal city of Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning Province on December 28 and arrived in Incheon Port in South Korea the next day.
However, they were reported missing after spending one night in a local hostel, Yonhap reported.
Online reports said all of them are male and from Shanxi Province, it's their first visit to South Korea, and their visas would allow them to remain in South Korea for up to 15 days.
However, the provincial tourism authority denied it yesterday, saying none of them is from Shanxi Province, China News Service reported.
South Korea's exit-and-entry department is investigating whether any middlemen were involved in the group's disappearance, the Yonhap report said.
South Korean officials also have started tracing the group's whereabouts and have banned them from leaving South Korea, the report showed.
Some people believe the group that is missing might be intending to work illegally in South Korea, where it is possible to earn higher salaries, according to the Southern Metropolis Daily.
On October 17, 2010, a total of 44 Chinese tourists, from Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other provinces, deserted the Italian cruiser Costa Classica upon arriving at South Korea's Jeju Island.
Twelve of them were later repatriated to China while the rest were missing.
On May 14, 2012, a ring of five people who had arranged their smuggling and earned around 510,000 yuan (US$81,855) from it received jail terms from two to 10 years in Beijing.
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