Korea To Fingerprint & Photograph Foreign Visitors

[nottu]

Originally Posted by alicia454

Nice to know that the South Koreans can be as xenophobic, racist, and stupid to innocent foreign visitors as are the Japanese, Americans, and British.

Best to vote with your wallet, and whenever possible, boycott all of these fingerprinting countries that treat law abiding visitors as criminals. There are still lots of other countries that still genuinely welcome visitors, international business, and tourist dollars.

Did you have these feelings when you got your passport? It would seem that anyone concerned with "xenophobia" and "racism" would have some problems with the standard passport photo. Fingerprints don't indicate race, but photos give some immmediate insights. Wouldn't it be preferable, with your concerns, to have passports with fingerprints rather than photos?

[Greji]

Originally Posted by nottu

Did you have these feelings when you got your passport? It would seem that anyone concerned with "xenophobia" and "racism" would have some problems with the standard passport photo. Fingerprints don't indicate race, but photos give some immmediate insights. Wouldn't it preferable, with your concerns, to have passports with fingerprints rather than photos?

Hey, never thought about that. Interesting come-back Nottu....

[Kuang_Grade]

I think some folks don't necessarily have a huge issue with respective host government getting/having fingerprint data for their own respective reasoning but rather have issues with that data then being transferred to 3rd parties for no good reason at all/being transferred to 3rd parties with zero certainty that the data will not be compromised along the way. After all, it is not like problems didn't pop up even under supposedly rigorous law enforcement controls....God knows what is happening now and what data is being comingled with your name and then being transmitted to the US gov.....The J gov has done a shit job protecting their own citizens data, so you can only imagine the complete lack of concern they're going to show for FG data.

[hundefar]

Originally Posted by nottu

Fingerprints don't indicate race

Except if the person in question is one of the dangerous jews, of course. His fingerprints will look like that of the gecko because it makes it easier for the money to stick.

[Christoff]

I would say it is worse in the us. Not only do they now fingerprint all incoming visitors, they also take photos of you and will soon be requiring biometric passports. It doesnt really surprise me about the photo thin in korea considering you need to give out you national id number is you want to be part of many korean message boards, such as Duam, by far the most popular.

[sublight]

Originally Posted by Mulboyne

Diplomats and government officials will be excluded from the obligations.

Odd that they exclude the two groups most likely to be doing something illegal.