Chinese Tourist Trespasses Elementary School; Na Calls for Visa-Free Policy Review

Rep. Na Kyung-won of the People Power Party urged "Acting President Lee Jae-myung to immediately conduct a comprehensive review of the indiscriminate visa-free policy and announce special measures to address foreign crime and public safety gaps."

Her call comes after a Chinese tourist recently entered an elementary school in Jeju without authorization and took photographs, prompting demands for government-level countermeasures.

According to political sources on Tuesday, Na wrote on her social media account that "an unbelievable incident occurred where a Chinese tourist illegally entered a classroom at an elementary school in Jeju and unlawfully photographed our children."

"It's fortunate nothing happened, but it's chilling and heart-stopping. How shocked must the parents and teachers on site have been?" she said. "Is the Lee Jae-myung administration's reckless expansion of visa-free entry for Chinese nationals acceptable? Are they waiting to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted?"

Na stated this was "clear evidence that the long-existing loophole in visa-free entry has finally reached our children's classrooms," adding that "even on the day the national computer network was paralyzed in October, cruise passengers from China entered without even recording their addresses."

"Six people disappeared within a day. There are now more than 10,000 illegal Chinese residents in Jeju alone. And now they have entered elementary school classrooms," she emphasized.

She also criticized the Democratic Party and Progressive Party for "proposing a bill to prohibit forced deportation of illegal residents, claiming to protect them," asking "whose country's lawmakers are they? Do they intend to turn Korea into a paradise for illegal residents?"