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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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 Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:20 am Post subject: What Can I Do on a Tourist Visa? |
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Haven't' gotten the offers I think I deserve for next contract. I want to come here on a tourist visa and live of the 'charity' of various amigos. I don't forsee more than a month of 'slumming it' without the storied e-2 but maybe it could be longer. I want to know what the deal is...
Can I:
use and charge my PPS phone?
Maintain the bank account I've currently set up?
Register and live at a goshiwon/residence house?
Meet and bed fabulously hot Korean women (and maybe smell their hair)?
all with a lowly tourist visa?
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Css
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: South of the river
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:28 am Post subject: |
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Smelling hair voids visas of all types, not just tourist visas.
other than that, i think everything is OK... |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:47 am Post subject: Re: What Can I Do on a Tourist Visa?H |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
| Haven't' gotten the offers I think I deserve for next contract. |
How am I not surprised?
Time to go home jkelly. You can whine about how much you hate Korea/Koreans to the other people in unemployment lines. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Css. But a very special thank you to madoka. Very constructive! Besitos! BTW you forgot to call me a racist.
I've actually gotten a great deal of offers, a few of them good. But I want Chicago time, at least three weeks worth, and they wont' budge on the starting dates. C'est la vie. ' |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject: Re: What Can I Do on a Tourist Visa?H |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
Haven't' gotten the offers I think I deserve for next contract. I want to come here on a tourist visa and live of the 'charity' of various amigos. I don't forsee more than a month of 'slumming it' without the storied e-2 but maybe it could be longer. I want to know what the deal is...
Can I:
use and charge my PPS phone?
Maintain the bank account I've currently set up?
Register and live at a goshiwon/residence house?
Meet and bed fabulously hot Korean women (and maybe smell their hair)?
all with a lowly tourist visa? |
I've been on a tourist visa for about three weeks now and have successfully used my bank account and charged my pay-and-talk phone. I've been a charity case for longer than three weeks now (left my stuff here and went home for Christmas) so I don't know about housing.
I also found a good job that I definitely would NOT have gotten without an in-person interview here in Korea. I recommend this visa! Completely worth the extra expense as far as I'm concerned. (I assume you're back home right now?) |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
| But a very special thank you to madoka. Very constructive! Besitos! BTW you forgot to call me a racist.' |
Hey, no problem man! You can always count on me. You've been a good boy lately, so there's no reason to call you a racist. Perhaps realizing that you voluntarily signed up for another year has helped work out some of your entitlement issues. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject: Re: What Can I Do on a Tourist Visa?H |
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| Draz wrote: |
| jkelly80 wrote: |
Haven't' gotten the offers I think I deserve for next contract. I want to come here on a tourist visa and live of the 'charity' of various amigos. I don't forsee more than a month of 'slumming it' without the storied e-2 but maybe it could be longer. I want to know what the deal is...
Can I:
use and charge my PPS phone?
Maintain the bank account I've currently set up?
Register and live at a goshiwon/residence house?
Meet and bed fabulously hot Korean women (and maybe smell their hair)?
all with a lowly tourist visa? |
I've been on a tourist visa for about three weeks now and have successfully used my bank account and charged my pay-and-talk phone. I've been a charity case for longer than three weeks now (left my stuff here and went home for Christmas) so I don't know about housing.
I also found a good job that I definitely would NOT have gotten without an in-person interview here in Korea. I recommend this visa! Completely worth the extra expense as far as I'm concerned. (I assume you're back home right now?) |
I'm actually in Korea, and work PS so I don't really have time to just walk around and interview during the day. My contract is up in 3 weeks and I know I want to stay here longer, and a round trip to Chicago and back is so cheap right now that I just plan on going home for three weeks and coming back.
I'm concerned about the status of my bank account and the fact that my phone makes me charge it every four weeks or the account lapses. I'm assuming that transferring money is not possible without an ARC. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| madoka wrote: |
| jkelly80 wrote: |
| But a very special thank you to madoka. Very constructive! Besitos! BTW you forgot to call me a racist.' |
Hey, no problem man! You can always count on me. You've been a good boy lately, so there's no reason to call you a racist. Perhaps realizing that you voluntarily signed up for another year has helped work out some of your entitlement issues. |
Insisting on civil behavior from an educated society is entitlement? |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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Draz:
Are you American? I've read that the new visa length is 90 days for Americans.
Also: did you have to provide a ticket out of Korea? Or did you just say you're looking for a job? |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| jkelly the bank account doesnt change or disappear just because you`ve been out of the country for 3 weeks. You can still get your sejongs. You might just want to change your address and foreigner number to the bank when you get settled in. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
Draz:
Are you American? I've read that the new visa length is 90 days for Americans.
Also: did you have to provide a ticket out of Korea? Or did you just say you're looking for a job? |
Canadian so I get 6 months. Planning my visa run for the end of Feb so I will end up using just over 1 month of that time.
I just said I was looking for a job. Immigration asked no questions, stamped my passport and sent me on my way.
I have to charge my phone every 30 days or it stops working, but I've left it longer than that without my account being erased. It works again when I put more money on. Maybe yours is different. I think my grace period is 60 days. The bank account should be no problem. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Xuanzang wrote: |
| jkelly the bank account doesnt change or disappear just because you`ve been out of the country for 3 weeks. You can still get your sejongs. You might just want to change your address and foreigner number to the bank when you get settled in. |
I would imagine it would still be there, but I'm worried as to whether the ATM card is tied to the ARC and will cease to work once the ARC has expired. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
| Xuanzang wrote: |
| jkelly the bank account doesnt change or disappear just because you`ve been out of the country for 3 weeks. You can still get your sejongs. You might just want to change your address and foreigner number to the bank when you get settled in. |
I would imagine it would still be there, but I'm worried as to whether the ATM card is tied to the ARC and will cease to work once the ARC has expired. |
Nope. Unless you tell the bank a change of employment and ARC number then they assume all is the same. Banks dont correspond with immigration to see when their foreign customers have given in their ARCs. I left in June and came back in September and my numerous bank cards still worked in perfectly fine 3 mos later. |
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losing_touch
Joined: 26 Jun 2008
Location: Ulsan - I think!
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: Re: What Can I Do on a Tourist Visa?H |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
| I'm assuming that transferring money is not possible without an ARC. |
Why don't you just do it online? I have never needed to show my ARC to my computer. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:47 pm Post subject: Re: What Can I Do on a Tourist Visa?H |
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| losing_touch wrote: |
| jkelly80 wrote: |
| I'm assuming that transferring money is not possible without an ARC. |
Why don't you just do it online? I have never needed to show my ARC to my computer. |
I don't have the Korean skills to pull this off, and I don't think Hana does this anyway. I'm considering changing banks when I come back, though. Who do you go through and is it English friendly? |
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