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superacidjax · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Location: Seoul

In Korea, marriage is a civil affair involving a trip to the Ward office to get a document stamped.

If the ward offices are closed on the weekend, how can one actually have a legal wedding date that falls on a weekend?

I'm not talking about a "ceremony," I'm talking about the "legal date of marriage."

Any ideas on how one can get the official date of marriage on a day that's a weekend?

Atavistic · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:12 pm Post subject:

Get married on Friday and next year is will most likely fall on Saturday.

Ta da.

superacidjax · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Location: Seoul

Richard Krainium · Joined: 12 Jan 2006

You can't.

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Guess you have the ceremony on sat and go file it at the proper office on Monday...Asians aren't sticklers on this sort of thing...once you have the ceremony, you're married.

winterwawa · Joined: 06 May 2007

Have you actually seen a marriage register that says the date is a Saturday? I got married on June 26th, but it was not registered on my wife's family registry until July, 4th. So, that could explain the descepency. Just a thought.

seoulman1 · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Location: Jamsil

WHY SATURDAY?

superacidjax · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Location: Seoul

Atavistic · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:16 am Post subject:

I was trying to make a joke. Sigh.

Can't you just lie? Look, register the damn thing on a Friday, have the big public ceremony on the 7th or just tell people that's your date. Who's going to care? If you two want to make it 070707 make it 070707.