Kids, gotta love 'em

[Scooter]

Child draws all over dad’s passport, dad gets stuck in South Korea

A four-year-old boy showed his talents as a budding artist in this nice drawing he did… all over his dad’s passport. The child got busy during a recent family trip to South Korea, where he took to the back page of his dad’s Chinese passport with a black pen and drew some really nice pictures of people, animals, and – obviously – added a bit more hair to his dad’s face. Classic. The only problem is that now his dad is stuck in South Korea because of his unrecognisable documentation, and authorities have warned it is likely he won’t be able to travel home with his son, and the rest of his party. The picture was originally posted on social networking site Weibo by the father, known only as Chen, alongside a plea for help.

Sounds like he might be spending the rest of his holiday on the phone to the Chinese embassy. Let’s just hope he invests in a nice colour by numbers for his son next time…

[Long Run]

Too bad it didn't happen here. He could get a passport on his own timeline:

[BoSoxGal]

That was a colossally stupid move - leaving his passport within reach of his kid, I mean.

Maybe he doesn’t want to go home to China?

[RayThom]

Child draws all over dad’s passport, dad gets stuck in South Korea

Duplicate, verified, documentation is on secure government servers. That's why he was able to get the original passport in the first place. All this guy needed was some of the visible information to be ascertained, and he should have been good to go.

Had he been a well known person he would have been screened and approved, and made his flight. Of course, with the promise of applying for a new passport.