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Maxboss
Joined: 24 May 2006
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What you said about the 10,000,000 is BS.
Up until a few years ago you could send home up to two-thirds of your salary as long as you brought along your payslips and some other documentation from your employer.
For the last 2 or 3 years we have been able to send all of our documented pay. Sounds more than reasonable to me.
The 10,000,000 limit is for money you can't document.
I have heard this from 3 different banks in 3 different cities and friends who are married and been here for 10 years and know this country like the back of their hands tell me the same.
As for labor law discriminating against us what laws are you talking about? |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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You might be able to get a credit card on a one year visa in the US but that does not make it a good thing. |
Please show me proof (or at least explain) why this could be a bad thing. I seriously doubt that there are hordes of 1 year visa holders in the U.S. reneging on their credit card bills. If there was such a problem, the U.S. credit card company would be all over it like white on rice.
Or is this a pointless, bash the foreigner thing? I'm American but I could swear that the only time some Americans like Foreigners are when they are picking their fruits and vegetables.... |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| It's their country, not ours. If it's so bad then leave. I can think of a lot worse things than not having an international ATM card. |
However Korea constantly craves international approval and recognition. It can't have this and institutionalised racism at the same time. |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| waynehead wrote: |
| It's their country, not ours. If it's so bad then leave. I can think of a lot worse things than not having an international ATM card. |
However Korea constantly craves international approval and recognition. It can't have this and institutionalised racism at the same time. |
Plus it's so inconsistent. You can send your money have way around the world with little to no fuss but you can't physically go half way around the world and have access to that exact same money through an ATM machine...What's the point or logic in that? OH! This is Korea: Where logic comes to die...
But to be fair, many people have proclaimed on Dave's that they have fully functional international ATM cards so this may simply point to the awe inspiring inconsistency that gives Korea that distinct sheen of ineptitude... |
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JZer
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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If there was such a problem, the U.S. credit card company would be all over it like white on rice.
Or is this a pointless, bash the foreigner thing? I'm American but I could swear that the only time some Americans like Foreigners are when they are picking their fruits and vegetables.... |
It is hardly foreigner bashing. US banks are giving out a lot of bad loans these days. The amount of credit cards that foreign students obtain is small compared to the amount of bad business loans given out. Despite that your reasoning is weak. US companies do give out bad loans and it is a growing problem.
If you read a little you would quickly learn about how in debt the US is! 
www.businessweek.com/.../jun2007/pi20070629_617383.htm? |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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If there was such a problem, the U.S. credit card company would be all over it like white on rice.
Or is this a pointless, bash the foreigner thing? I'm American but I could swear that the only time some Americans like Foreigners are when they are picking their fruits and vegetables.... |
It is hardly foreigner bashing. US banks are giving out a lot of bad loans these days. The amount of credit cards that foreign students obtain is small compared to the amount of bad business loans given out. Despite that your reasoning is weak. US companies do give out bad loans and it is a growing problem. |
And what exactly do bad business loans (and let's not forget Home loans) have to do with students on 1 year visas having access to credit cards (that being what I was talking about)? Apples and Oranges, isn't it? I must be missing something here, please fill in the blanks... |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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If there was such a problem, the U.S. credit card company would be all over it like white on rice.
Or is this a pointless, bash the foreigner thing? I'm American but I could swear that the only time some Americans like Foreigners are when they are picking their fruits and vegetables.... |
It is hardly foreigner bashing. US banks are giving out a lot of bad loans these days. The amount of credit cards that foreign students obtain is small compared to the amount of bad business loans given out. Despite that your reasoning is weak. US companies do give out bad loans and it is a growing problem. |
And what exactly do bad business loans (and let's not forget Home loans) have to do with students on 1 year visas having access to credit cards (that being what I was talking about)? Apples and Oranges, isn't it? I must be missing something here, please fill in the blanks... |
On the day that Korea lost its bid to host a second Olympics yet again perhaps they might consider bringing in such elementary international conveniences as bank machines that will handle Interac and Plus system cards. |
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JZer
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Location: South Korea
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I am an idiot!
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JZer
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| And what exactly do bad business loans (and let's not forget Home loans) have to do with students on 1 year visas having access to credit cards (that being what I was talking about)? Apples and Oranges, isn't it? I must be missing something here, please fill in the blanks... |
The point was not whether business loans and personal loans are the same. Alyallen, you seem to think that banks would not give out bad loans but they obviously do. The problem is with your reasons. |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| And what exactly do bad business loans (and let's not forget Home loans) have to do with students on 1 year visas having access to credit cards (that being what I was talking about)? Apples and Oranges, isn't it? I must be missing something here, please fill in the blanks... |
The point was not whether business loans and personal loans are the same. Alyallen, you seem to think that banks would not give out bad loans but they obviously do. The problem is with your reasons. |
What are you talking about?? When did I say that banks do not give out bad loans? When did I talk about good loans? You must have me confused with another poster because I did not state anything to that effect in this thread at all. |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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I just came back from my bank (Standard and Chartered) where I talked to the manager. He didn't have any idea of a national law or anything else having to do with international bank cards. Bank policy, with regards to little things like issuing bank cards, is dictated by the bank, not the government. He told me that my card will work overseas.
The OPs bullsh!t story continues to not hold any water. People should contact their own banks to find out what the deal is. Don't simply ask some dumb-assed teller. Speak to someone in charge.
Why do morons persist on this forum posting such obvious misinformation? Shut the *beep* up, you idiots. Go outside. Stay away from the computer. |
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normalcyispasse
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Location: Yeosu until the end of February WOOOOOOOO
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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South Korea did not bid to host an Olympics. That was North Korea. |
So what was this fuss about the 2014 Winter Olympics being lost to Sochi? Are you confusing Pyeongchang (South Korea) with Pyeongyang (North Korea)? |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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South Korea did not bid to host an Olympics. That was North Korea. |
So what was this fuss about the 2014 Winter Olympics being lost to Sochi? Are you confusing Pyeongchang (South Korea) with Pyeongyang (North Korea)? |
Again, morons on this board. Absolute know-nothing morons who would do well to shut up. And these people are in charge of other people's kids. Frightening. |
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The_Conservative
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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I. Bank policy, with regards to little things like issuing bank cards, is dictated by the bank, not the government. .
Why do morons persist on this forum posting such obvious misinformation? Shut the *beep* up, you idiots. Go outside. Stay away from the computer. |
Well said sir. Yet some people will insist that this is an example of Korean institutionalized racism, even after some people have pointed out that they have Korean issued international bank cards. Some Korean banks give out these cards, some don't. Most Korean banks only handle domestic affairs. For example there are about a dozen banks in my area of town, yet ONLY ONE handles overseas transactions, the rest deal strictly with domestic transactions. |
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jeffkim1972
Joined: 10 Jan 2007
Location: Mokpo
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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Someone just made the mistake of confusing North and South Korea as a candidate Olympic host.
That pretty much sums up the thread here... |
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