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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject: You can't get a Korean passport if you have unpaid debts? |
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| Is this really true? I found out last night that someone I know couldn't get a passport because she was a credit-card defaulter. Are the banks so powerful that they can actually prevent someone from getting a passport? |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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You mean Koreans getting Korean passports or Canadians/Americans/Kiwis getting passports in their respective countries?
I'm up to my eyeballs in debt back home but I got one no problem. I need to be here to pay it off anyway. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| If Canada had a policy like that O.S.A.P. would go broke. |
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oldfatfarang
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: On the road to somewhere.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I know of a girl in Thailand who can't leave there because she's a bank debtor. Maybe it's an Asian thing? |
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jeffkim1972
Joined: 10 Jan 2007
Location: Mokpo
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| If you owe child support, you can't get one. (in the US) |
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kat2
Joined: 25 Oct 2005
Location: Busan, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| What is the debt threshhold? If you owe $500 bucks to your credit card company, it seems ridiculous to keep you from getting a passport. If you owe 50,000 bucks. Ok, maybe. And waht about mortgages. Very few Americans who own a house, actually own it outright. Most people are still paying the bank. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| kat2 wrote: |
| What is the debt threshhold? If you owe $500 bucks to your credit card company, it seems ridiculous to keep you from getting a passport. If you owe 50,000 bucks. Ok, maybe. And waht about mortgages. Very few Americans who own a house, actually own it outright. Most people are still paying the bank. |
It's not about being in debt... it's about being in DEFAULT on the debt. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| IncognitoHFX wrote: |
You mean Koreans getting Korean passports or Canadians/Americans/Kiwis getting passports in their respective countries?
I'm up to my eyeballs in debt back home but I got one no problem. I need to be here to pay it off anyway. |
I mean Koreans getting Korean passports. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| kat2 wrote: |
| What is the debt threshhold? If you owe $500 bucks to your credit card company, it seems ridiculous to keep you from getting a passport. If you owe 50,000 bucks. Ok, maybe. |
If you DEFAULT on enough debt, all the bank has to do is ask the court to put a halt on your passport. They do it all the time, even "back home". It's up to the courts to tell Immigration to not let one out of the country. The banks themselves can't do it. |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| Don't you guys know that Korean scammers are famous for haulin ass out of the country once they've pulled their scam? It's been done to death in this country! The trick is to get the passport before you pull your scam! |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:50 am Post subject: |
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| You can't get a Korean passport if you have unpaid debts |
What other countries does that apply to?
If you owe the Brit Govt money you can't get one, also Canada is barring defaulters of child support. its probably not long before it becomes a worldwide policy. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:12 am Post subject: |
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| SuperFly wrote: |
| Don't you guys know that Korean scammers are famous for haulin ass out of the country once they've pulled their scam? It's been done to death in this country! The trick is to get the passport before you pull your scam! |
The trick is to pull the scam and get out of dodge ASAP, before the banks and courts gang up on you to keep you here. Course, here, this process is notoriously slow, and hence, the large list of scammers who are able to leave before their nat'l ID is flagged. Just look at fake-degrre holder Shin Jeong-ah: more than $100,000 in debt and still allowed to skip the country.
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CeleryMan
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: |
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| Unpaid debts are also handed down to first sons or daughters. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| Ah is that why so many young women turn to prostitution to pay off debts? I can quite imagine a lot of other things aren't available until bank debts are paid. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Ah is that why so many young women turn to prostitution to pay off debts? I can quite imagine a lot of other things aren't available until bank debts are paid. |
yep. If old ajjoshi has run up a lifetime of gambling debts, the family sacrifices their prettiest daughter to sell her as$ to clear it.
Theres a room salon near my house. I always see the limos collecting and dropping off the hookers. Some look intelligent and conservative, your girl next door type. The jaded looks on their faces is just of a trapped woman doing what she has to do. |
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