**Jeju Immigration and Foreigner Office Begins Search**
Some of the Vietnamese group tourists who visited Jeju on a visa-free (no-visa) entry did not board their return flight.
According to the Jeju Immigration and Foreigner Office and Jeju Tourism Organization on the 3rd, out of the 80 or so Vietnamese who entered Jeju from Nha Trang, Vietnam, on a Vietjet Air charter flight on the 14th of last month, 38 did not board their flight back home.
These Vietnamese tourists were last contacted at a tourist site on the 17th of last month before their return flight, after which they suddenly cut off communication and disappeared.
The period they are allowed to stay in Jeju without a visa is 30 days; after the 14th, they will be classified as illegal residents.
As a result, all six Vietjet Air charter flights scheduled from the 25th of this month to February 13th next year have been canceled.
A representative from the Jeju Immigration and Foreigner Office stated, “We are conducting a search based on the possibility of illegal residency by checking CCTV footage, etc.” and added, “On the 14th, we plan to form a team to apprehend those who have violated their visa-free status and begin a full-fledged operation to capture them.”