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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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 Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:46 am Post subject: Foreign Actors From "The Host" Deported |
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From The Marmot's Hole:
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The Dong-A Ilbo reports that immigration authorities have handed down deportation orders for actors David Anselmo and Clinton Morgan, both of whom appeared in Bong Joon-ho�s blockbuster �The Host,� for violating Article 20 of Korea�s immigration law, namely, that you must get government permission before engaging in activities other than the ones specified in your sojourn status.
Morgan, an Australian, was on a English teaching visa and employed at a university in Suwon, while Anselmo, a Canadian, was on a 90-day tourist visa.
Good news for the both, however. If they pay a 1 million won fine and leave Korea, they can return anytime they like. If they fail to pay the fine, however, they would be forcefully deported and barred from reentering the Land of the Morning Calm for 3-5 years. Which would suck.
Mr. Morgan, however, was still pretty pissed. He told the Dong-A (warning: retranslating from Korean here), �Restricting activities besides those marked on your visa is a narrow-minded policy� I don�t want to come back to Korea.�
My advice to both�next time you engage in activities outside of your visa status in Korea, make sure you�re married to the American ambassador.
Actually, I feel bad for the guys. I can see how they might have to pay a fine, but a deportation order? For appearing in, what, the highest grossing film in Korean cinema history? You�d figure just for their contributions to Korea�s film industry the authorities would go easy. Guess not. Hope they get some good legal help.
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:32 am Post subject: |
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It does suck that these guys got to do something pretty memorable, and then get punished for it. Still, they're probably victims of their own success now that they're so visible, being in of Korea's biggest films.
The Immigration Dept. couldn't miss that one. Mr Morgan shouldn't be so surprised with the way things worked out.
Really, they're still getting preferable treatment. I have a friend who violated his visa - he got the exit order, the big fine AND he's barred from working. |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:36 am Post subject: |
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I never bothered to see it.Thought it looked like a Korean version of a standard Hollywood monster eating the populace flick.
How were the foreign actors though?JSA and Welcome to Demako were pretty,well,wooden.
I hardly think it'd matter too much to Koreans though. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:55 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a little foggy on Article 20 of Korea’s immigration law. What does it say about, oh, running a "Me No Yankee" T-shirt retail business on a visitor's or teaching visa? Fer instance. |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| If those foreigners were generic white people playing US military roles, HA-HA. I hope da monster bites you head off |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:49 am Post subject: |
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| dulouz wrote: |
| If those foreigners were generic white people playing US military roles, HA-HA. I hope da monster bites you head off |
Looking at the link these guys have been in a series of high profile movies playing generic whitey. The Canuck guy's making good use of the 6 month tourist visa working non-stop for four years.
Did he have work visas for all of this time? If not it's kinda taking the pees. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| rothkowitz wrote: |
I never bothered to see it.Thought it looked like a Korean version of a standard Hollywood monster eating the populace flick.
How were the foreign actors though?JSA and Welcome to Demako were pretty,well,wooden.
I hardly think it'd matter too much to Koreans though. |
it's not the standard hollywood monster flick. i mean, it's got elements of that, but it's really a unique little flick (and I use the word 'little' because it doesn't have some pretentious 'epic' quality to it. it's more about one family and how they deal with their missing daughter). it mixes slapstick comedy with dark horror and manages to pull off both when most movies can't even get one or the other right (that would be my quotable line if i was a movie reviewer). the white actors are once again very wooden but thankfully their appearances are brief. |
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GEOM
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Which characters did they play as? |
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Merlyn
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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I never bothered to see it.Thought it looked like a Korean version of a standard Hollywood monster eating the populace flick.
How were the foreign actors though?JSA and Welcome to Demako were pretty,well,wooden.
I hardly think it'd matter too much to Koreans though |
I didn't think it was that great at all. The monster parts were really just at the beginning and a little at the end. More time was spent dealing with the boring plot of contamination. I thought the foreigners stuck out like a sore thumb and ruined the believability when the monster first attacked. Seeing them running around the Han river side with the other Koreans and attempting to fight the monster, just seemed phoney. Should have been only Koreans, would have been better that way. The first scene in the movie was kind of funny when the foreign army officer tells the Korean to dump the chemicals. The Korean trys to convince the army officer not to do this, why? Not because it would be bad for the environment and would pollute the river, not because it would kill off fish and contaminate drinking water, but simply because. "This is the Han River". And I think the response to this was "Mr. Kim the Han river is so broad, so you must broaden your mind." Funny. And then the next scene when they first see the monster. All the Koreans start throwing all their garbage into the river to feed it. And I'm not talking like bread to feed a duck, or even a cookie perhaps, but plastic bottles of water and plastic bags of potato chips and all others sorts of garbage you can imagine. But it is the Han river. Let's not dump chemicals into it because you're a foreigner, but let's throw all of our own garbage into it and it is fine. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Merlyn wrote: |
| I thought the foreigners stuck out like a sore thumb and ruined the believability when the monster first attacked. |
Does it get any better than this? |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| I'm a little foggy on Article 20 of Korea�s immigration law. What does it say about, oh, running a "Me No Yankee" T-shirt retail business on a visitor's or teaching visa? Fer instance. |
Yeah I wondered about that, too. I thought any money-making venture aside from what's listed on your visa was to be considered illegal and reprehensible.. |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Way to be a bad 'host', Korea.
ZING! |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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A lot of the comments on the Naver page are saying that most countries have the same policy. Another person said, "냄새나는 양키님."  |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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Netizens are the equivalent of talk-back radio.
Faceless and idiotic. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| A lot of the comments on the Naver page are saying that most countries have the same policy. Another person said, "냄새나는 양키님." |
Most countries do have the same policy, but acting on it is another story. Some countries would see that this is a time to exercise leniency.
Im totally not surprised by this. I rejoice more in my decision to move to Japan every day. |
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