Deported Thai man returns to Korea under new name, gets suspended sentence

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A Thai man who changed his name to evade a permanent ban on entering South Korea has received a suspended prison sentence, a court said Friday. The Busan District Court sentenced the man, in his 40s, to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for violating the Immigration Act. He had been deported in April for overstaying his permitted period of stay and permanently barred from reentering Korea. About three months later, he changed his name, obtained a passport under the new name and retu