"I can't afford the containment costs"… First deportation of Taiwanese to reject quarantine

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A Taiwanese woman who came to Korea after knowing the two-week quarantine guidelines was deported because she refused to enter the country because she could not pay for the quarantine. There have been cases of returning from the airport in the meantime, but this is the first time foreigners who have already arrived have been deported for quarantine.

Reporter Kang Cheong-wan.

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The Ministry of Justice announced on the 2nd that a Taiwanese woman in her 30s, who had entered Korea alone for the purpose of travel, was forced to leave the country yesterday evening (5th).

The woman was informed and agreed to be sequestered twice at the facility when she was ticketed in Taiwan and just before entering Incheon Airport.

However, the day after entering the country, I arrived at the Jincheon, North Chungcheong Province, and suddenly refused admission.

The reason was that I couldn't pay around 1.4 million won for staying in a quarantine facility for two weeks.

[Attorney General of the Immigration Division of the Ministry of Justice: During the immigration process, I was informed about facility isolation and cost burden, but I changed my mind on the spot. Arrive.]

This is the first case that a foreigner who has passed the immigration inspection since the first day when mandatory quarantine measures were first enforced for all immigrants was deported because they refused the quarantine measures.

Eleven foreigners who were previously denied entry did not enter Korea because they refused to quarantine facilities before immigration.

Three foreign students from Gunsan University, Vietnam, who were caught in a quarantine location with their cell phones in isolation, were summoned and investigated by an immigration office yesterday.

The Ministry of Justice is also considering deportation according to the findings.

In addition, five foreign confirmers, such as the UK and Germany, who have violated the quarantine measures, will conduct a summons investigation as soon as the treatment is completed.

(Video editing: Hwang Ji-young)