Overview
- Tuesday night Si Woo Kim followed Google Maps to a similarly named Korean barbecue across the Detroit–Windsor crossing and realized only after paying a roughly $9 toll that he had entered Canada.
- He did not have a passport and a U.S. officer told him he could not turn back on the one-way approach, so he drove into Canada to speak with officials there and waited about 45 minutes in line.
- On re-entry agents questioned him, searched his courtesy car and called in additional officers—Michael S. Kim’s social post says as many as eight agents were involved—before clearing him to return to the U.S.
- Michael S. Kim first posted the episode on X and Si Woo Kim later confirmed details to reporters at the Rocket Classic; there are no reports of formal enforcement action and he remained in the tournament field.
- The episode highlights how one-way border approaches, passport rules and duplicate business names can turn a GPS error into a stressful security stop and shows how social media quickly amplifies human-interest travel mishaps.