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skeptical
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
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 Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject: Incheon to confirm renun. of Kor. Citizenship? Where? |
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Can anyone tell me where I can go in Incheon to confirm the renunciation of my Korean citizenship?
Also, where I might apply for a new VISA (uhm, the F4 visa).
Just thought I'd post here, 'cause the response might possibly be quicker here than, say, from the EPIK staff or other teachers I know.
Thanks. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| City Hall or immigration would be the best bets. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Are you a male?
I would be very careful about what you do. If you are a male, a Korean citizen, and you are IN country, you are eligible for military service. |
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skeptical
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:47 pm Post subject: thanks |
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gonna try immigration--wherever it happens to be.
ps- I know my Korean citizenship was automatically cancelled when I acquired a Canadian one, and so I think I'm just going through some bureaucratic nonsense as I do this. hence, I'm quite sure I won't have to be drafted--and if I am--well, then so be it. just yet another fiasco in the 'land of the morning calm.'  |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:57 pm Post subject: Re: thanks |
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| skeptical wrote: |
ps- I know my Korean citizenship was automatically cancelled when I acquired a Canadian one, and so I think I'm just going through some bureaucratic nonsense as I do this. hence, I'm quite sure I won't have to be drafted--and if I am--well, then so be it. just yet another fiasco in the 'land of the morning calm.' |
Canada will no longer recognize your Korean citizenship, but Korea still does.
Otherwise, you wouldn't have to renounce it, after you've gotten you Canadian citizenship. |
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bundangbabo
Joined: 01 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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If you are on the family scroll - you are a citizen - thats what I know about it and thus eligible for conscription.
I'd be careful if I were you. Or your disrespect for authority will come crashing down with a thud!  |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| If you become a Korean citizen, am I wrong in assuming that your Canadian citizenship will be cancelled? |
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skeptical
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I just spoke with Immigration, and they assured me my Korean citizenship is already annulled. I happen to have the paper which proves it also.
And don't get me wrong--I love Koreans--I love its culture, its history, for example. It's just a shame that much of Korean high culture has been annhilated by internal and external powers, such as the "pragmatic-thinking" school of thought (Silkhak), and the Japanese, who often did everything they can do eliminate every last trace of Korean high culture.
The bourgeouis revolution has only so far allowed the vulgar classes to triumph here--that's why things are so vulgar here, in my lonely estimate.
so I don't blame them, -- I just despise them, that's all, feel sorry for them, and pity 'em. what a terrible state of affairs, really.
and I've met top-act Koreans also-- though they often are not recognized in the shuffle, such decent humans they are.
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If you are on the family scroll - you are a citizen - thats what I know about it and thus eligible for conscription.
I'd be careful if I were you. Or your disrespect for authority will come crashing down with a thud! |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| skeptical wrote: |
Well, I just spoke with Immigration, and they assured me my Korean citizenship is already annulled. I happen to have the paper which proves it also.
And don't get me wrong--I love Koreans--I love its culture, its history, for example. It's just a shame that much of Korean high culture has been annhilated by internal and external powers, such as the "pragmatic-thinking" school of thought (Silkhak), and the Japanese, who often did everything they can do eliminate every last trace of Korean high culture.
The bourgeouis revolution has only so far allowed the vulgar classes to triumph here--that's why things are so vulgar here, in my lonely estimate.
so I don't blame them, -- I just despise them, that's all, feel sorry for them, and pity 'em. what a terrible state of affairs, really.
and I've met top-act Koreans also-- though they often are not recognized in the shuffle, such decent humans they are.
| bundangbabo wrote: |
If you are on the family scroll - you are a citizen - thats what I know about it and thus eligible for conscription.
I'd be careful if I were you. Or your disrespect for authority will come crashing down with a thud! |
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Have you thought about using your Canadian citizenship to become a Canadian government employee? With your work ethic you'd fit right in as an auxilary staff member at a hospital or university.
(Unfortunately your rather damning analysis of modern Korean society is somewhat too sharp to rebut very much.) |
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skeptical
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:15 am Post subject: |
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C'mon! Enough, already. I'm not that bad. Just because I show up right on time for class doesn't mean I do a half-ass job. There's a difference being there mentally, and showing up an hour early yet not being-there-at-all.
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| skeptical wrote: |
Well, I just spoke with Immigration, and they assured me my Korean citizenship is already annulled. I happen to have the paper which proves it also.
And don't get me wrong--I love Koreans--I love its culture, its history, for example. It's just a shame that much of Korean high culture has been annhilated by internal and external powers, such as the "pragmatic-thinking" school of thought (Silkhak), and the Japanese, who often did everything they can do eliminate every last trace of Korean high culture.
The bourgeouis revolution has only so far allowed the vulgar classes to triumph here--that's why things are so vulgar here, in my lonely estimate.
so I don't blame them, -- I just despise them, that's all, feel sorry for them, and pity 'em. what a terrible state of affairs, really.
and I've met top-act Koreans also-- though they often are not recognized in the shuffle, such decent humans they are.
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If you are on the family scroll - you are a citizen - thats what I know about it and thus eligible for conscription.
I'd be careful if I were you. Or your disrespect for authority will come crashing down with a thud! |
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Have you thought about using your Canadian citizenship to become a Canadian government employee? With your work ethic you'd fit right in as an auxilary staff member at a hospital or university.
(Unfortunately your rather damning analysis of modern Korean society is somewhat too sharp to rebut very much.) |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:47 am Post subject: |
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| It's just a shame that much of Korean high culture has been annhilated by internal and external powers, such as the "pragmatic-thinking" school of thought (Silkhak), and the Japanese, who often did everything they can do eliminate every last trace of Korean high culture. |
Interesting. What is/was high culture? |
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