Korean Arrested in Davao City for Smoking Will Be Deported

September 13th, 2007 at 1:10 am (Davao City)

Bit Maru Hahn, a 26-year old Korean national was recently apprehended here in Davao City for smoking inside a taxicab. Before he was arrested, he allegedly harassed the taxi driver for asking him not to smoke inside the cab. Upon being apprehended by the authorities, he was allegedly disrespectful. And to make things more interesting, it was discovered that his passport expired last April 2007. Making his stay here in the city illegal. He is now facing deportation.

This is the most recent of events concerning the local government and the countless Koreans in the city. First was the local governments’ officials concern over the growing number of Koreans in the city. This is coupled by the growing number of complaints over their brashness and impolite treatment of locals.

Second, is Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s tiff with the management of the Apo View Hotel that operates a hotel manged by a Korean. The casino allegedly allows its Korean patrons to smoke indoors which is a violation of the city’s Anti-Smoking Policy.

Now this… a Korean caught smoking while aboard a taxi, harassing a local and local authorities, and found to have been illegally overstaying in the country.

Although he was not deported as a direct result of his violation of the anti-smoking ordinance, the Korean’s deportation is a clear signal to all Koreans in the city that we do not take our laws lightly. Locals and tourists alike have to respect the city and its policies. This city and our official take our laws seriously. We do not have them for show. We follow them. Not because we are afraid of our mayor or of penalties, but because the city and its people deserve to be respected.

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6 Comments

  1. Winston said,

    September 13, 2007 at 7:12 am

    yeah, I read that in the newspaper. I think Apo View Hotel did not comply with the non-smoking regulation policies. The Korean owner of the hotel even asked the city government if they could be exempted from the smoking ban. Of course the city did not agree with their request. Foreigners should get the same punishment when violating rules in our city.

  2. Seg said,

    September 14, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    Some Koreans are really rude that most of those I have dealt with have this air of swell headedness in them. Even here in cyberspace I had encounter with thinks they’re much better than us filipinos as if we should bow & kowtow to them.

    If most of those koreans who are in Davao are like this, it will be inevitable that they’d find themselves in trouble with the locals.

  3. crissy said,

    October 7, 2007 at 10:31 pm

    i think korean people are good. they just dont know our culture very well thats why they get in trouble…

  4. al said,

    June 18, 2008 at 5:39 am

    kick off all those stupid and rude koreans in our country. Their country does a lot of human rights violations to many foreign nationals in their place.

  5. al said,

    June 18, 2008 at 5:42 am

    kick out all of those stupid and crazy koreans in our country. They are pieces of shit in our lives as they continue to violate human rights of foreign nationals in their country including Filipinos whom i think are better than them.

    take these english ignorants out!

  6. peterahon said,

    June 20, 2008 at 12:36 am

    presently working here in Gwangju, ROK in a NGO, I’ve been here in 2005-2006 for 10 months internship (after my 2.5 years work in KSA). I came back in 2007 and extended after my contract ended.

    The people I worked with like me and I need to send my sister to finish her nursing course so I stayed on. Well like in any nationality there are rude and good people. And I do believe that the guy mentioned in the report is one of those rude Koreans.

    We also complained with our Korean NGO partners, when I was still working in the Philippines that there are several managers at the Cavite Export Processing Zones who are very rude. They were so ashamed of their countrymen doing business in the Philippines and maltreating Filipino workers.

    The same story here of migrant workers there are unlucky kababayan who are working with Koreans bosses who treat them like dogs (Ke- shouted at Kesekyah!) and looked upon by their relatives when returning smelling and looking dollars ( from a Pinoy I chance at the airport in Incheon).

    So may mga rude at mababait na Koreano tulad din ng mga Pilipino.

    (Hmmm.. I wonder why the profusion of hate among Koreans on cyberspace????)

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