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Fishead soup



Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:23 pm    Post subject: Already have been interviewed. Reply with quote

I was hired through EPIK. I was interviewed at the Toronto Korean embassy. Will the idiots at immigration actually ask me to do this again.
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crusher_of_heads



Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!

PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I will specualte that if yo uare in Canada, yes.


I know this is a leap of faith, but if you're in Korea, no.
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tiger fancini



Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Testicles for Eyes

PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

crusher_of_heads wrote:

I know this is a leap of faith, but if you're in Korea, no.


Well lets hope not, anyway. Whether re-sigining at a place, changing jobs, going travelling for a month or 2.... I still think this would be a ridiculous sanction to impose, and can't possibly see how this measure would reduce the number of unqualified/pedo/druggie/whatever-else-we-are-assumed-to-be's from getting a job here.
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Whistleblower



Joined: 03 Feb 2007

PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:10 pm    Post subject: Re: Already have been interviewed. Reply with quote

Fishead soup wrote:
I was hired through EPIK. I was interviewed at the Toronto Korean embassy. Will the idiots at immigration actually ask me to do this again.


What questions did they ask? Did they do a background check? Was it productive?
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Fishead soup



Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:18 pm    Post subject: Re: Already have been interviewed. Reply with quote

Whistleblower wrote:
Fishead soup wrote:
I was hired through EPIK. I was interviewed at the Toronto Korean embassy. Will the idiots at immigration actually ask me to do this again.


What questions did they ask? Did they do a background check? Was it productive?


The questions were pretty standard job interview questions.

I hope they did the background check. I have nothing to hide and don't want to do it again.
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mrsquirrel



Joined: 13 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You do realise that you are going to have to go back every year for the same interview don't you.

After all you could over the space of a year develop a strange sexual fetish or maybe even a dislike for Korea.
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halfmanhalfbiscuit



Joined: 13 Oct 2007
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Details please.How was it organised(and why so soon?)What questions were asked?

Frankly,I think this is BS.
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hari seldon



Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Incheon

PostPosted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:42 am    Post subject: Re: Already have been interviewed. Reply with quote

Fishead soup wrote:
Whistleblower wrote:
Fishead soup wrote:
I was hired through EPIK. I was interviewed at the Toronto Korean embassy. Will the idiots at immigration actually ask me to do this again.


What questions did they ask? Did they do a background check? Was it productive?


The questions were pretty standard job interview questions.

I hope they did the background check. I have nothing to hide and don't want to do it again.
Wouldn't it be more cost effective to simply put the same questions in writing on a job application?
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chronicpride



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:04 am    Post subject: Re: Already have been interviewed. Reply with quote

Fishead soup wrote:
I was hired through EPIK. I was interviewed at the Toronto Korean embassy. Will the idiots at immigration actually ask me to do this again.


Just so I understand. The employer interviews over the phone, agrees to hire you, you sign a contract, THEN you have to get an interview at the embassy and answer some of their job interview questions? Hmm. Somethings not right. Can't seem to put my finger on it, though. Rolling Eyes

Talk about the mother of all slam dunk interviews. Which embassy clerk is going to bother causing a huge rift by overruling the employer's take on the interview and communication that they've had with the teacher, reject the visa, effectively nullify the contract, and give a big setback to an employer with a teacherless classroom and a dwindling student enrollment?


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halfmanhalfbiscuit



Joined: 13 Oct 2007
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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SirFink



Joined: 05 Mar 2006

PostPosted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Posts like this confuse me. The new regulations (including the consulate interview) don't go into effect until Dec. 1 or later ("sometime in December" according to some) so why was the OP even required to do it?
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crusher_of_heads



Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!

PostPosted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SirFink wrote:
Posts like this confuse me. The new regulations (including the consulate interview) don't go into effect until Dec. 1 or later ("sometime in December" according to some) so why was the OP even required to do it?


If a mistake is made at either end, they are not left holding the bag.


They are saving face.
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