Comments on: Wanted Murderer Teaching English in Korea

By: Grouch

Grouch — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:43:36 +0000

Maybe there’s a job waiting for me in Korea after all…nice site!

By: Justin Kimberlake

Justin Kimberlake — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:15:15 +0000

I didn’t realize I clicked onto the “When I got fingerprinted Thread.” Where is the discussion about heinous Korean-American murdering?

By: Johnson

Johnson — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:55:49 +0000

one more thing to #45

“Why would passengers even submit to such insanity if it did occur? Maybe I read you r post wrong?”

The threat of the ‘full body search’ buys a lot of submitting to stuff. Because there’s some places you just don’t want a stranger’s finger!!

By: Johnson

Johnson — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:52:52 +0000

#45

No, the US weirdly treats transit passengers the same as people entering the country. Numerous times I have changed planes in San Fran or LA before continuing to Canada, and each time we had no choice but to go ‘through’ US immigration. I remember one immigration official in San Francisco laughing as I answered his question “How long will you be staying in America?” with “See that gate over there? As long as it takes me to walk to it.”

By: kpmsprtd

kpmsprtd — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:22:35 +0000

Re Dave’s #40. Please tell me you mis-wrote something in your post. I know they’ve gone insane, but I cannot imagine any reason-even an insane one-why transit passengers would be fingerprinted. Why would passengers even submit to such insanity if it did occur? Maybe I read you r post wrong?

By: Bipolar Mindscrew

Bipolar Mindscrew — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:53:15 +0000

#41 - That article is dated May 2006… I was most recently in Osaka in October, so you may be right… I’ll know for certain in the next two weeks. An either case, it doesn’t bother me…

By: ElCanguro

ElCanguro — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:20:41 +0000

ArmyDog - You forgot the ‘ I’m not one to generalize, but . . . ‘ disclaimer before your little diatribe against English teachers.

Heaven forbid people might think think you’re narrow-minded and prone to ill-thought out, wide-sweeping generalizations.

By: tmc1233

tmc1233 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:13:20 +0000

#33– When was the last time you went to Japan? Just curious. The fingerprinting started fairly recently, in Novemeber of ‘07 I think. You hand over your passport, put your two index fingers on two sensors and look directly into a camera.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asi.....991448.stm

By: Benicio74

Benicio74 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:05:05 +0000

I got fingerprinted back in ‘97 and have not had it done since.

However, the whole fingerprinting thing has been useless anyway, since they have not been doing background checks. They did not get your fingerprints to run them through your home country’s or interpol’s database. None of that was ever done.
The only reason they got fingerprints was for if you committed a crime in Korea and left a print behind.

This whole fingerprinting for background checks has been a useless argument. If they had fingerprinted this guy, he would still have roamed free because they would not have bothered to see if he was wanted in another country.

That’s why they are asking for criminal background checks now because if they fingerprint us, they won’t do anything with that information.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:06:27 +0000

Interesting story about fingerprinting, I was on a flight a couple of months ago from Toronto to Hong Kong with a 1 hour stopover in Alaska to clean and refuel the plane. Even though we weren’t allowed to leave a holding area and didn’t pass through immigration, everybody on the flight, except Canadians, was fingerprinted and had their picture taken.