Name: Was this flight ban unfair?
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In 2007, three young Chinese women were prevented from leaving South Korea, even though they had all the correct documentation and had not done anything wrong.

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And in 2007, three young Chinese women were prevented from leaving South Korea, even though they had all the correct documentation and had not done anything wrong.

I like the practical, physical, it's not the correct answer, but I like it.

Yeah, but you'd kick them out if that was the case, surely.

Maybe they were suspected of doing something wrong, but even then, I feel like the question is like, no, this is a weirder reason.

Am I right in thinking there's no border shared between South Korea and China?

The clues in South are North there, really, isn't it?

So this is probably going to have to be taking part at an airport or something like that, because how are they...

Does it say where it's taking place, Sean?

But they had the right to travel on the route that they wanted.

Did they ever get to travel on the route they wanted?

Were they carrying illegal things, like that border control programme?

But we know they haven't done anything wrong, and that would be on arrival.

If they're too young to travel on their own, they might have documentation that allows them to leave, but they might not have an adult that is allowed to leave with them.

Maybe their mother was taken ill or something, so isn't around to be able to shepherd them onto the train or plane or something like that.

I know that it says they were Chinese, and this is in South Korea, but in my head, they're like K-pop stars, and the crowd is just stopping them physically leaving because they are such fans of them and do not want them to go.

But I think I've got the countries the wrong way round for that.

You should have a whole episode that's just K-pop themed.

The women have chosen to go to South Korea for a specific reason.

You don't need to go to South Korea for that.

Oh, for some ridiculous trial, drugs trial or something, or medical intervention.

If you are flying, then one of the things you can't do in the 24, 48 hours before that is scuba dive or do something like that because the pressure difference is too great, and you could end up with an injury.

I suspect not many people go to South Korea for scuba diving, but could it be some medical thing that they've done that means they can't get on the plane that it's for their own safety rather than something they've done?

So you, Ruth and Tom, you're both warm with this idea of a medical aspect, but they weren't divers, Tom.

Have they done something or been exposed to something?

But your train of thought is heading in the right direction, I believe.

I think we're going to need another hint here, Sean.

Actually, this does clarify the earlier question.

Airport staff, so we are in an airport, were unable to carry out one very specific stage of their job.

Were they wearing something they shouldn't have been wearing or that meant they couldn't get frisked or in that weird machine?

No, they couldn't prove their identity for some reason.

Well, I was going for fingers, but faces is better.

They'd gone to South Korea for plastic surgery.

The faces had changed so much that airport staff didn't think they were the same people.

No, Tom, I need to explain to you about plastic surgery.

You won't know what your new face looks like.

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Was this flight ban unfair?

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