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How many Kiwis in Korea?
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printme



Joined: 23 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:21 pm    Post subject: How many Kiwis in Korea? Reply with quote

Does anyone have access to any government stats that can tell us how many Kiwis are granted an E2 visa each year? Is the number rising or dropping?

Any causal observations of numbers of NZers in Korea?
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mrsquirrel



Joined: 13 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You Kiwi's are a strange old bunch, you all seem to know each other or know somebody because they have done the walk of shame or whatever it is called where the TV cameras get you walking home in the morning after your one night stand.
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aarontendo



Joined: 08 Feb 2006
Location: Daegu-ish

PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A few too many for my tastes ;p
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printme



Joined: 23 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mrsquirrel wrote:
You Kiwi's are a strange old bunch, you all seem to know each other or know somebody because they have done the walk of shame or whatever it is called where the TV cameras get you walking home in the morning after your one night stand.


What, you mean on Cow TV in Dunedin?
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mrsquirrel



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's the one, I think.

Went out on the piss years ago with a girl who had been on it at some point, lots of Kiwi's that she had never met before but had met up to watch rugby in Itaewon the majority of them knew her and her friend who had both been on at separate occasions.

Then she met my flatmate who she knew of through a friend of a friend of a sheep or something like that. Flatmate turns out knows her fathers mothers rooster.

Strange
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printme



Joined: 23 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mrsquirrel wrote:
That's the one, I think.

Went out on the piss years ago with a girl who had been on it at some point, lots of Kiwi's that she had never met before but had met up to watch rugby in Itaewon the majority of them knew her and her friend who had both been on at separate occasions.

Then she met my flatmate who she knew of through a friend of a friend of a sheep or something like that. Flatmate turns out knows her fathers mothers rooster.

Strange


Meeting people like that ("I know you through...") happens to me on a daily basis. It's nice.

Soo..... any word on the stats?
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mrsquirrel



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

more than there are sheep here.

Must make a nice change.
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samoanz



Joined: 12 Mar 2007
Location: South Korea

PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:45 pm    Post subject: Re: How many Kiwis in Korea? Reply with quote

printme wrote:
Does anyone have access to any government stats that can tell us how many Kiwis are granted an E2 visa each year? Is the number rising or dropping?

Any causal observations of numbers of NZers in Korea?


You may have to email/phone the NZ embassy here for those stats..or the embassy back home...ps: I dont think there are enough of us kiwis here! We have a great rep worldwide as teachers because most kiwis dont complain (the 'she'll be right' attitude) and just get on with the job!

There are 3 kiwis on EPIK here in Gangwondo
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printme



Joined: 23 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:50 pm    Post subject: Re: How many Kiwis in Korea? Reply with quote

samoanz wrote:
You may have to email/phone the NZ embassy here for those stats..or the embassy back home


cheers man. the NZ embassy could only direct me to www.immigration.go.kr which seems pretty odd, that the embassy doesn't keep any stats on this. Anyway it's in Korean so I'm in the process of getting someone to translate for me ......anyone bored right now by the way? I'll give you a prize.

I also have this site http://www.kosis.kr/ but again can't translate it so far.
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excitinghead



Joined: 18 Jul 2005

PostPosted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It took a while, but I finally found this post of Robert Koehler's from last year of the statistics for all teachers in Korea:

http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/11/22/weekly-chosun-on-koreas-14000-foreign-english-teachers/

It was suprising to me that there were more Kiwis than Australians here, but not really a surprise at all that there were more Canadians than Americans.
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printme



Joined: 23 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks... only 630 Kiwis on E2 visas?? Unreal. Feels like there must be thousands.
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Col.Brandon



Joined: 09 Aug 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a Kiwi but I'm on an F2.
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excitinghead



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a Brit/Kiwi on an F2 too. I don't think old-timers like us make much of a dent in the statistics though!
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kiwiduncan



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a kiwi but on my British passport. Nice photo of your son by the way.
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Cheonmunka



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Del

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