After his fan meeting successfully concluded on 3rd November (Monday), Lee Jong Suk was scheduled to take a flight back to Korea. Unfortunately, he and his team were detained at Jakarta Airport for 2 days.
On an Instagram post, which has been deleted, the star stated that they were detained due to tax issues on the local organiser’s side. However, CNN Indonesia revealed that the group was denied access due to visa issues.
Jong Suk’s earlier Instagram post read:
“The promoter [for the fan meeting] in Jakarta, yes24, had reported lower profits from the fan meeting than what they had actually made to the local tax authorities. Though my staff and I have no involvement in this, they took our passports and have not returned them. I hope that yes24, and their agencies The Cre8tive Lab and Yumetomo resolve things quickly.”
The actor and his staff members were due to leave Jakarta on 4th November, but a problem arose between the Indonesian organiser yes24 and the authorities. Their passports were then confiscated, which meant that they couldn’t leave the country.
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Fortunately, the issue was resolved today due to help given by the Indonesian embassy and Jong Suk and his team has left for Korea. In a long statement, A-Man Project explained that their side were confused too, due to the various different explanations given by different parties.
“First, we heard that the local representative of yes24 took the actor and staff’s passports without any reason and disappeared. A few hours later, the local representative was detained by Indonesian tax authorities because they did not pay taxes. Their explanation changed and they said that the passports of the actor and staff in the local representative’s possession were taken away during this process. A couple of hours later, a local media outlet also reported that yes24 had not applied for a short-term work permit and that a visa issue also occurred because of this,” the statement, which was released on Instagram, read.
As there still isn’t a concrete explanation from yes24, they plan to take legal actions. They also updated fans about Jong Suk’s well-being and whereabouts, revealing that he was concerned about his upcoming drama’s filming schedule and has boarded a Seoul-bound flight.
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