I have said this before and I’ll say it again, when will Koreans take personal responsibility for their own US visa problems?

Seventeen out of 22 students who were set to be educated in the U.S., including Lee, did not receive U.S. visas. Among them, 12 gave up going to the U.S. and are currently studying in other countries as Lee did.

It was identified that the U.S. Embassy in Korea did not issue visas for a number of college students who even had letters of guarantee issued by the Korean government.

The KITA stated on September 5 that the U.S. Embassy in Korea refused to issue visas for 17 Korean college students, who applied for visas for tourism (B1) to attend internship training in the U.S. as part of the KITA college student overseas training program, on the grounds that their documents were ¿not properly filled out.¿

Since 2000 when the training program was launched, a total of 227 students have received internship training in the U.S. until last year. This is the first time ever that trainees¿ visa applications have been rejected, said the KITA.

¿It is incomprehensible why the U.S. Embassy in Korea this year is suddenly refusing to issue visas to college students, whose return to Korea is guaranteed by the Korean government,¿ said a KITA official. ¿What makes us more frustrated is that they are not giving a clear reason for all this.¿

The US embassy did give you reason!  You filled out the wrong paperwork.  You can’t go to the US on a tourism visa and then expect to attend a college internship.  You need to fill out a visa application for a student visa.  It sounds like to me that whoever organized this internship program on the Korean side filled out the wrong forms so instead of accepting responsibility for the mix up it is easier to blame the Yanks with an outrageous conspiracy theory:

Some KITA insiders analyze, ¿As the visa waiver negotiations for Koreans have begun, the U.S. embassy might be stricter in applying the conditions for visa issuance so that they could maintain a visa rejection percentage of three percent.¿

In order to join the U.S. government¿s visa waiver program, a country needs to meet the condition that the visa rejection percentage for its people should be below three percent for two consecutive years.

Could it be that the reason Korea has such a high US visa rejection rate is contributed to idiots like this guy who can’t fill out the paperwork properly and instead of doing a self analysis and educating others about properly filling out the forms, it easier to blame everything on a evil US conspiracy theory to prevent Koreans from coming to the US.  People wonder why the US wants out of Korea, here is another example for you; the US is only willing to be a punching bag for every problem in Korea for so long.