K-pop girls sent home!

[Randy W]

Both from the U.S. to South Korea, and China to North Korea!

 

 

K-pop band sent home from LAX not sex worker suspects, just lacked work visas: report

Immigration official quoted as denying claim by agent for South Korean girl band Oh My Girl that they were apparently detained as suspected sex workers, instead saying they lacked performance visas for show

 

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Band members were seeking to enter under a programme that allows South Koreans to travel in the United States for up to 90 days without a visa, the official said. But when customs agents went through their luggage and found costumes and props it was clear that they had arrived to perform.

 

The US agents denied the young women entry because they lacked the required performance visa.

“We were doing what we do every day,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Times. “We send people back all the time.”

 

 

 

North Korea's Spice Girls leave China without singing a note: Kim Jong-un's favourite girl band cancel 'due to communciation problems'

 

The band's shows are cutting edge in North Korea. Photo: AP

 

"We just received a notice that the three days of concerts were all cancelled," an operator with the centre's hotline said when reached by the Sunday Morning Post at 6pm - 90 minutes before the performance was to start. Censors removed most reports of the cancellation.

 

On Sunday, State-run Xinhua quoted people from relevant departments as saying that the performance was cancelled because of “communication issues at the working level”, without further elaboration.

 

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About 20 members of Moranbong Band were seen departing for home from Beijing's international airport at about 1pm on Saturday.

 

 

[dnoblett]

Yep, their promoter in the states totally dropped the ball and did not file an application for a P-1 visa for them.

 

http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/employment/temporary.html

[Dennis143]

A recent article in the LA Times about LA's Koreatown nightlife...

 

How LAPD vice is cleaning up K-town's less savory side

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Here's a couple," the sergeant says, motioning toward two young women shuffling past with doll-like makeup, perfectly coiffed hair and dresses clinging tightly to their petite frames.

There's another scurrying into the club in a black corset dress with a lace-up front, then another, in a dusty-rose number.

They're "doumi" girls, Los Angeles Police Sgt. Julia Vincent tells me...

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ktown-nightlife-20151130-story.html

Edited December 14, 2015 by Dennis143 (see edit history)

[Randy W]

They are but pawns in Kim's little games!

 

 

Kim Jong-un ordered his girl group home after learning Xi Jinping wasn't planning on attending their performance

 

Reasons for the abrupt and shocking cancellation of the official DPRK girl group's performances in Beijing may now have come to light. Reportedly, the Moranbong Band's visit to China was terminated once North Korea learned that Chinese President Xi Jinping would not be attending their concert.

 

According to a Chinese government official spilling the tea to South Korea's Yonhap News, Kim Jong-un was disappointed by a change of plans that would see attendance from a mere lower-ranking official from the Communist Party's politburo.

 

Strangely enough, said plans were purportedly changed on Thursday when Kim Jong-un announced his country's new deployment of a hydrogen bomb.

 

Official Chinese media are neither confirming nor denying grounds for the concerts' cancellation, with state-run Xinhua News modestly describing the whole kerfuffle as "communication issues at the working level."

 

Among such "communication issues" may have included China's requested lyrical changes in one of the pop group's more propagandist numbers.