导读:按照法律规定,持有中国签证的人可以在韩国济州岛面签停留30天。国庆期间,100多中国游客被济州岛边检以各种理由拒绝入境,并且没收了护照和回国机票,100多人在机场“小黑屋”了睡了5天地板。
More than 100 Chinese tourists were reportedly turned away after trying to enter South Korea’s Jeju Island during the recent seven-day Chinese National Day holiday, the Beijing News reported Saturday.
本周六据《新京报》报道,国庆黄金周期间,100多名中国游客入境济州岛被拒。
Some of the tourists arrived at the airport on Oct. 2 and have remained there ever since, undergoing confinement for more than five days. Their activities and movements were largely limited to a room lacking furniture or facilities, with the exception of electrical outlets. The tourists sat and slept on a bare floor, with nothing offered to keep them warm. They ate simple food provided to them by the airport for 50 yuan ($7.50) per meal.
部分旅客10月2日就抵达了济州岛机场,从那天开始就滞留在那里,在一间小屋子里呆了五天。这些旅客们的活动范围被限制在一个小房间里,没有家具或者其他什么设施,只有电源插座。游客们坐在光光的地板上,没有什么可以用来保暖的东西。机场只提供给他们非常简单的食物,却每餐收费50元人民币(约合7.5美元)。
According to the law, Chinese passport-holders can stay visa-free for 30 days in Jeju Island. Nevertheless, a number of cases of border officers denying entry to Chinese tourists have recently been in the news.
按照法律规定,持有中国护照的人可以在济州岛面签停留30天。但是,近来新闻报道了多起韩国边检官员拒绝中国游客入境的新闻。
One visitor, surnamed Zhang, said he and his wife had signed up to travel as part of a tour group, which arranged their hotel bookings and travel itinerary. Upon arriving at Jeju International Airport on the morning on Oct. 6, a border officer refused Zhang and his wife entry, allegedly because they hadn’t prepared a hard copy of their hotel booking record. The officer confiscated their passports and their tickets back to China.
据一名姓张的游客透露,他和妻子签约跟团旅游,旅行团为其安排酒店住宿和旅游行程。在10月6日早上抵达济州岛国际机场时,韩国一名边检官员拒绝他们入境,据称原因是因为他们没有准备一份酒店预订记录的书面文件。这名韩国官员随后没收了他们的护照和回国机票。
“They [the border officers] told us we could either book [an earlier] flight from the same airline back to China, or else wait in the airport for our original flight,” Zhang said.
张先生表示:“这名边检对我们说,我们要么从同一航空公司定一架早一点的航班返回中国,要么就在机场等我们原定的飞机。”
A visitor surnamed Feng said she and her husband were rejected because they happened to be traveling with another three passengers from the same hometown. The border officer therefore questioned them on suspicion of illegal immigrantion and then denied them entry.
一名冯姓旅客表示说,她和自己的丈夫也被韩国边检拒绝入境,其原因是因为他们碰巧和其他三名来自同一个地方的人一起旅游。韩国边检怀疑他们非法移民,因此拒绝入境。
On the afternoon of Oct. 7, the Chinese consulate in Jeju told the Beijing Times that they had contacted relevant departments in South Korea to convince them to do something about the situation.
在10月7日下午,中国驻济州岛领事馆告诉《新京报》说,他们已经联系了韩国有关部门,说服他们就此事采取一些行动。