Korean Job Discussion Forums

Czarjorge · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:31 am Post subject:

Given it's "new", presumably though I might just be ignorant, status it is a bit extreme that in one month you'll need a doc you can't get for six months. If I can't get a visa because I'm waiting on this document that's going to be just amazing. It's like my passport all over again. Thank you political bureaucracy.

chachee99 · Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Location: Seoul Korea

I got a response from a recruiter regarding this topic.
I don't know how valid is it, but the new procedure sounds like a pain in the @ss even for current teachers. Why would Korean immigration start doing this!

I work for a recruiting company, and you are mostly correct with your assumptions. The Korean Government has issued a release with unconfirmed details. On November 11th or 12th, offical details will be released.

These are the unofficial details:

As of December 2007, the E2 visa process will be changed.

All new teachers will be required to do the following (in addition to current visa procedures):

1) A criminal background check
2) A medical check
3) An interview with a consol at their local Korean Consulate

Furthermore, for all teachers currently in Korea who want to renew their contracts:

1) There will be no more VISA runs to Japan. All VISAs must be obtained in the teachers' home countries.
2) VISA will not be renewable in Korea. At the completion of one year, if the teacher decides to stay at their current school, they must return to their home country and obtain their VISA there.
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mithridates · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:41 am Post subject:

chachee99 · Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Location: Seoul Korea

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

Ha.

Thank-you F2!

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

Do they have any idea how many Canadian teachers will now avoid the E2 all together?

If this is true, they just increased their illegal teachers working on tourist visa population by another 10,000.

Typhoon · Joined: 29 May 2007 Location: Daejeon

VanIslander · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:17 pm Post subject:

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

I'm sure they're trying to push out some older teachers whom they feel are not doing anything.

They'd rather get new blood who knows nothing, and has a higher likelihood of stealing their women away *laugh*.

The Korean consulates abroad have no staff for this.

I predict immediate failure, a massive influx of tourists from Canada, and language schools losing top students by the thousands to foreigners working on their own.

I'll still believe the gov't report when I see it.

MiniMoonks · Joined: 30 Oct 2007

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

3) An interview with a consol at their local Korean Consulate

There is no consulate in Brisbane, with Sydney 900 km away. Why not a phone interview?

ceesgetdegrees · Joined: 12 Jul 2007

Well this is all heresay at the moment though right. The whole visa run thing seems really strange though, i hope they don't go through with that.

Alexander · Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Location: Seoul

ceesgetdegrees · Joined: 12 Jul 2007

Lets face it guys, efl teaching in korea or anywhere for that matter is a road to nowhere. If all these things are true then maybe it will be the motivation needed to give some of us a bit of a boot up the bum.

Beeyee · Joined: 29 May 2007

What happens if you were arrested for something but not convicted? Will that be enough for immigration to deny a visa? This whole thing is messed up!! Evil or Very Mad