Comments on: Korean Immigration Is Still Pretty Mellow . . .

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:22:32 +0000

…or better yet, when they start using such common names as an alias?

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:21:08 +0000

“Perhaps prospective parents should check this “no-fly” list before naming their babies . . .”

LOL. Yeah, but what do you do when terrorists catch on and start calling their kids with common ‘American’ names like ‘John Smith’, ‘James Smith’, and ‘Robert Johnson’?

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:09:12 +0000

I couldn’t make this nonsense up.

Here is a four-year-old who is on this “no-fly” list. As per this article, the director of “Terrorist Screening Center” says:

it’s a regrettable inconvenience for those with these names to have to go through heavy screening at the airport, but it’s the price people have to pay to protect national security.

Perhaps prospective parents should check this “no-fly” list before naming their babies . . .

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:18:34 +0000

I once flew into Europe, showed my passport to the Immigration agent, cover closed, back side up. He frowned, I flipped it over. He saw the Canadian coat-of-arms on the cover and waved me in.

By: babarian.

babarian. — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:39:00 +0000

So why do incidents such as those happen?

IMHO, because American resources have been stretched a bit too thinly.

By: whitey

whitey — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:54:25 +0000

American TSA employees who deal with the public could use a benchmarking mission to Japanese airports to learn manners. I salute the staff at Narita airport!

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:41:11 +0000

Cut bluejives a break — it was a funny observation.

By: mateomiguel

mateomiguel — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:00:10 +0000

It seems the Korean Government trusts me more than my own government does and I am beginning to really question my own government’s ability to act in a rational manner.

My American passport gives me little perks in just about every airport in every nation on earth, except the US. Its not just the Korean government that trusts us more than our own, its practically every country in the world.

By: Breaktrack

Breaktrack — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:46:07 +0000

Yeah Nutizen Kim, it would be like having a Korean chair a board of ethics or think objectively. Now that would be ironic.

Nutizen Kim doesn’t seem to understand that Koreans are responsible for most of the drugs that come into the country. But Korea has no mafia right?!

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:58:06 +0000

Things have really gotten out of hand regarding the issue of security in America. I still want to know why, on my last trip to the states, American Immigration wants to know where I am going and why I am in the U.S. (uhhh, . . . I was *born* there maybe) but when I get back to Seoul, no questions are asked!!?

It seems the Korean Government trusts me more than my own government does and I am beginning to really question my own government’s ability to act in a rational manner.