55 tourists from Thailand go AWOL in South Korea

South Korean Immigration officials revealed that 55 Thai tourists have gone missing on Jeju Island.

Some 280 Thai tourists entered South Korea last week through Jeju International Airport but 55 of them have gone AWOL

Jeju Immigration Service announced that of the 697 Thai nationals who arrived at Jeju Airport from Bangkok through a direct Jeju Airlines flight between Tuesday and Friday, 417 were denied entry and were flown home.

The other 280 people who entered the country were part of a planned three-day tourism program. But 55 of them left their tour groups and disappeared and the South Korean Immigration Office announced it is trying to work out where they went.

Immigration officials revealed that Thai tourists choose to enter South Korea through Jeju as they have more of a chance of gaining entry than at any other airport in South Korea.

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