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muffintop · Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Location: SK

Has anyone's public school asked to see your social security card or asked for the number recently? School wants mine.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:54 pm Post subject:

It's perfectly normal - some countries have tax treaties with the ROK and some don't. Either way, 'big bro.' is always watching... and enquiring minds (yes, governments have minds Rolling Eyes

) want to know.

dimnd · Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: Western USA

I understand..but has anyone else had to show theirs is the question?

moosehead · Joined: 05 May 2007

ChinaBoy · Joined: 17 Feb 2007

Give them a phony number.

muffintop · Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Location: SK

Thanks, Moosehead and other posters.
I will let the days go by and if they persist say exactly that. It is my number for my country only and personal and private. ARC copy or passport copy is all that they are entitled to. Heck..they got everything else on us...diplomas, CRC's, enough to open a vault...

lifeinkorea · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Location: somewhere in China

Mine is 8675309

cruisemonkey · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject:

saw6436 · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Daejeon, ROK

There is ABSOLUTELY no reason for your PS (or any other SK agency) to need your SSN. Just say no.

Forward Observer · Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Location: FOB Gloria

yeremy

It's a very odd request from a Korean (public) school, which is not normal nor necessary. All they need to know or see is your passport which will prove your nationality for tax purposes. A second reason is that your SSN could easily be stolen from your school and used for no good just by someone calling and asking for it. Once a former school gave someone my home phone number just because they asked for it. There is no real sense of privacy or information security, especially in a public school, so I suggest that you politely refuse. It is not a normal nor acceptable request, even in Korea.

And what you should ask of your school is a summary, like a W2, of your yearly earnings for tax purposes.

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

OK, at first I thought this was the ARC number. A public school wants a social security number? Why? It must be about taxes.

Tobias · Joined: 02 Jun 2008

I wouldn't give it. Who knows what they'll do with it. I've seen school workers walk away and leave people's passports sitting on copy machines like it's no big deal.

Tell 'em NO.

Ut videam · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do

Rory_Calhoun27 · Joined: 14 Feb 2009

On a related issue, what are you SUPPOSED to give the school to show your exemption from taxes?

It's like the keystons cops with my elementary school- 10 months in, I'm told by my SECOND coteacher to show a "proof of residency" or something similar to avoid taxes..... of course, they havent been paying them for these 10 months, but I was told last summer all fees were being deducted by my FIRST coteacher.

Mind you, the first one is also the one who repeatedly said we were not a team, said "*beep* you" and gave me the finger whenever she wanted, and gepik refused to do anything about it, including the possibility of a transfer. mercifully, she finally had to change schools, and I've had decent coteachers since then....

Logic tells me a passport SHOULD be enough for this matter, but knowing Korea, logic is sometimes more a liability than asset. Anyone have ANY idea what the proof they want is? My current coteacher doesn't know what the office wants, nor do they, I'm starting to think.