More foreigners caught trying to make illegal trip to mainland
Visa not needed for Jeju, but required for rest of country


Authorities are catching a rising number of non-Koreans for attempting to take advantage of Jeju’s visa waiver program in order to stay in the country illegally.


Airport officials say they had caught 74 foreigners through the end of October this year for trying to make it to the mainland, where a visa is required. That’s more than double the 36 who were apprehended during the January-to-October period in 2015.


Airport police plan to increase the number of checkpoints for foreigners at the airport and introduce a new automated passport scanning system that can detect forged travel documents.


공항 무단이탈 외국인 적발 건수 크게 늘어


불법 체류나 무단 이탈을 시도하는
외국인 적발 건수가 크게 늘고 있습니다.


공항 자치경찰단에 따르면
지난달까지 공항에서 적발된
무단이탈 시도 외국인과 불법체류자는 74명으로
지난해 같은 기간 36명 보다 두 배 이상 늘었습니다.


자치경찰단은
공항내 외국인 심사대와 인력을 늘리고
여권자동판독 시스템을 도입해
위조 여건에 대한 심사를 강화하고 있습니다.