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Roch · Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul

My co-teacher informed me that iimigration officials are going to go to all schools tomorrow to check out foreign teachers and their degrees.

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

"All schools"??

Don't you usually take your degree to work with you on Wednesdays?

Whatever...

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

rockstarsmooth · Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Location: anyang, baybee!

public, uni or hakwon?
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right now i'm listening to: metallica - eye of the beholder

SeoulShakin · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

Damn - that's a whole lot of school's to cover in just one day lol.

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

Immigration couldn't even cover one city in one day.

so this is a 'surprise' inspection, yet your bosses know it's coming.

If I was your boss I'd tell my illegal teachers to stay home tomorrow.

dannylelievre · Joined: 11 Nov 2006

we were notified today to prove our university was legit, bring in diplomas and transcripts tomorrow. seems pointless of course.

spyro25 · Joined: 23 Nov 2004

not heard anything in busan.

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

We gave our info in the summer. Nothing has happened. They probably saw all the papers and just said "must be good!"

Col.Brandon · Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Location: Seoul

I got called out of class today and asked why my university didn't reply to their half-assed Konglishy letter requesting information on my degree (no doubt implying that there's something fishy about my qualifications).
I told them that my country has privacy laws and the school won't just hand out a person's private details to some random clown on the internet.

They said, "Well, the government has asked us to re-verify your degree." I said, "So, you want me to give you the information that you already have again?" They said, "Yes, everyone has to do it, even Koreans, and we need it by tomorrow"... this after the Konglishy letter that was sent 6 weeks ago got no response.

Sheesh. The funny thing is I don't even need a degree since I'm on an F-2.

Sometimes I despair of this place...

shaunew · Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Location: Calgary

I'm the same way, f-2 visa so I told them I have the f-2 if they want to bug me about this I can find a new job in 15 minutes. They then went to the office and looked at the photo copy of the degree I gave them and they said sorry.

kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

Hopelessly Human · Joined: 03 Oct 2006

Immigration came to my hagwon today.

Roch · Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul

One of the Konglishey teach-uhs just told me that he does not believe that most foreign teachers are university graduates. He also said that many Canadians are child molesters. He even demanded that I show him the web sites of the places where I did my undergrad and grad work.

One of the other Korean English teachers claimed that this guy used to harass the last foreign English teacher until the instructor finally had enough of it and resigned.

I told the guy off in a polite way and asked him to stop insulting me. Really, he did not bugger off until I remembered what I'taewon Guy would have told the *beep* about The Republic of Corruption and their reputation for fraud in all areas of life.