By James Goo

Shin Eun-mi, the Korean American woman who was accused of holding a pro-North Korea lecture in South Korea, was deported from the country and returned to Los Angeles Saturday.

Shin’s arrival at Tom Bradley International Terminal inside LAX was met with a crowd of supporters and naysayers.

Shin, 54, is a California resident. Korea Immigration Services deemed her lecture series held last year — in which she allegedly made North Korea-sympathetic comments — in violation of Seoul’s National Security Law.

She will be unable to enter South Korea for five years.

She received flower bouquets from church groups and a handful of progressive organizations that came out with signs supporting “One Korea,” but was told to “go to North Korea” by opposers and members of a conservative group based around Los Angeles.

She said she felt as though she’d been betrayed by someone she loved by being deported. Being labeled pro-North Korea by Korean media was hurtful, she said.

The scene inside the terminal was one of chaos Saturday as organizations’ members verbally fought. A woman belonging to one of the conservative groups, surnamed Jang, was arrested by police for assaulting a member of a progressive group. An unidentified Korean man pushed the president of one of the conservative groups present with both hands and was taken in for police investigation.

Under South Korean law, pro-North Korean sentiment is punishable by up to seven years in prison. Critics — including U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, according to the Huffington Post — say the law “limits freedom of expression and restricts access to the Internet.”