Arriving in the country on a marathon visa...illegal employment in a fish farm

Participation in crime, including active marathon runner and former coach
Making and using invitations with false local sports association seals
In January-July of this year, 7 Kenyan marathon runners were illegally employed
Six out of seven inbound athletes leave the country...Coast Guard, track down one.

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A group of people who illegally hired foreign athletes at a fish farm after letting them enter the country to participate in a domestic marathon has been caught by the maritime police.

Even active marathon runners in Korea participated in the event, making false invitations to obtain visas.

Reporter Park Jong-hyuk reports.

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A foreign man arranges the net and moves the harvested scallops.

It is a promotional video that is convenient to work in a Korean fish farm and has a lot of wages, and it is on social networking services.

"Korea is good."

But the foreign worker in the video turned out to be a Kenyan marathon runner.

I got a visa to participate in a domestic marathon, but I got an illegal job at a fish farm.

I didn't even participate in the competition.

After that, there were people who got visas with false documents and then got them to work here after entering the country.

They are active marathon runners in their 20s and former coaches in their 50s.

He created a false invitation letter with a forged local government sports association seal to help get a visa from the Korean Embassy in Kenya.It is aimed at a loophole that foreign players often come in as a 'facemaker' in the

marathon competition.

From January to July, seven Kenyan marathoners were employed by fisheries companies such as southern coastal fish farms in South Gyeongsang Province.

The daily wage collected 34 million won from Kenyan athletes' wages in exchange for entry and employment, according to the survey.

[Hwang Chang-seop / Head of Information and Foreign Affairs Division, Changwon Maritime Police: The exchange rate difference between Kenya and Korea is about 10 times higher. If you earn about 1 million won in Korea, it's about 10 million won.]

The Changwon Maritime Police Station sent one out of three people per day to the police without detention and two others to the police without detention.

I'm YTN's Park Jong Hyuk.