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[mindmetoo]

Right so my visa expired Feb 28. A Thursday. I wanted to fly home on the weekend, not a 2 am after my last class. Most sane nations have a grace period. You have a week or two to get out. Hell, I've even seen the foreign help center make this claim after a call to immigration.

But no probs. You go online and you can extend for a few weeks. Just fill out an online form and send them a photo of your ticket. Took a bit to figure out the web site but whatever. So after your approval, you need to print out a document (and of course load another exciting Korean code module to do what would appear to be already handled by File | Print).

Anyway. Printed the document. Put it with my passport.

Okay so I get to the NW check in desk. The woman says my visa expired and I need to get a stamp from immigration. She won't give me my boarding pass until I get the stamp. I show her the print out from immigration. No I need a stamp. Are you sure? What is this paper for? No I need a stamp. Alright. So I trundle off to immigration. It's early. I only wait about 5 minutes. I show the immi person my passport and the paper I printed out and tell her the airline desk said I needed a stamp. The immi woman seemed very irritated. You don't need a stamp. That's why you got this paper. I say well that's what I tried to tell the airline woman. I got the immi woman to write a note.

I went back to the check in desk and showed her the note. I also showed her the form and tried to educate her about the form. She looked about as interested in learning how to do her job properly as any of my former students looked when I was trying to explain the tricky concept of putting an S at the end of a noun to make it plural.

Ah, a final taste of Korea before I left. At least no one bashed me in the shins with their luggage cart.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

I find most of the Koreans who work behind the desks of check-in counters to be retards, unrivaled in their knowledge, or lack thereof I should say, of the most mundane aspects of the visa process. For about the sixth time since coming to live in that godforsaken swamp, I checked in at the desk, only to be told I had no valid visa. This was despite opening my passport to the appropriate page and putting my ARC on top of said document. Honestly, why the powers that be continue to allow these bumbling spaznauts to continue their employ, let alone steal the very oxygen normal folk breathe, is evidence, to my mind, of a vast conspiracy designed to give jobs to people whose only other useful purpose on this earth would be as fertilizer.