A Russian woman was deported from South Korea for not knowing the sights

Ulyana, a resident of St. Petersburg, was held in a deportation room in South Korea after she could not name the country's attractions in Korean. The girl told about it on October 7 in a conversation with Izvestia.

"The flight was from St. Petersburg. When I got to Korea, I filled out the declaration. I had all the documents. <...> The tickets were bought, the hotels were fully paid for. No one returned a ruble to me, the tickets were lost, the money for the hotels was also lost," she said.

According to Ulyana, she was purposefully "bombarded with questions" at passport control, trying to find a reason for deportation. She added that Korean border guards often took Russians out of the queue for an additional interview. According to the girl, it asked questions that "anyone would hardly have answered."

After several hours of interrogation, Ulyana was not released for a long time and was placed in a deportation room, where she spent four days. The room, according to her, was stuffy and small — about 18 square meters. m. There were more than 30 people in it, the girl notes.

The Russian woman was banned from entering South Korea for several years. Ulyana suggested that the reason for the deportation could be political motives or South Korea's attempts to deal with migrants. She also stated that many other Russians found themselves in a similar situation, and the reason for the refusal was almost always the same — ignorance of Korean cultural sites.

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