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FUBAR
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: The Y.C.
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| Mr. Pink wrote: |
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According to dad, the first 6 digits reflect date of birth.
Up until recently, there were numbers corresponding to where you were born (certain numbers for Seoul, Busan, etc) and for gender.
These have been scrambled so that they are now pretty much completely random.
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Actually the sex of the baby is still in the number
before a 1xxxxxxx mean a boy and a 2xxxxxxx meant a girl
Now it is 3xxxxxxx means a boy and 4xxxxxxxx means a girl
They ran out of the old numbers. That is why they had to redo our ARC because our old #s started with a 3 or 4. |
Wasn't that the big deal with Harisu about a year back. He/She wanted to be issued a new Korean ID to reflect his/her altered status as women. |
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bjonothan
Joined: 29 Apr 2003
Location: All over the place
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 1:47 am Post subject: |
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| There are programs that can get you past all that. I have a sayclub id thanks to the friendly pc room guy. He just pulled the program up and pressed a button and away it went. There is probably someone cursing me here somewhere because they can't get into sayclub because their id is being used. The same happened to my wife actually. |
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bjonothan
Joined: 29 Apr 2003
Location: All over the place
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 1:49 am Post subject: |
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| Because foreigners id numbers start with a 5, that is the reason why you can't you use your own number. If you don't really have a conscience like me, then look for a bloke here than can simply find you one. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:20 am Post subject: |
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Just a note; you can post messages on my site (or any cyworld site) without a membership, but only on the visitor log (�����). Posting on the bulletin board does require an ID unfortunately.
Shakuhachi has gotten himself an ID though. |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
Just a note; you can post messages on my site (or any cyworld site) without a membership, but only on the visitor log (�����). Posting on the bulletin board does require an ID unfortunately.
Shakuhachi has gotten himself an ID though. |
It's pretty easy to get an ID, think it took me a whole 10mins...reason it took so long was accessing my pop mail was a pain  |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Mr. Pink wrote: |
| jaebea wrote: |
According to dad, the first 6 digits reflect date of birth.
Up until recently, there were numbers corresponding to where you were born (certain numbers for Seoul, Busan, etc) and for gender.
These have been scrambled so that they are now pretty much completely random.
jae. |
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Actually the sex of the baby is still in the number
before a 1xxxxxxx mean a boy and a 2xxxxxxx meant a girl
Now it is 3xxxxxxx means a boy and 4xxxxxxxx means a girl
They ran out of the old numbers. That is why they had to redo our ARC because our old #s started with a 3 or 4. |
Deja vu. You and I have had this same exact exchange before.
They didn't run out of numbers for the foreigners. Ours were a different subset, evidenced by the fact that they never worked for anything. If you compared yours with anyone elses, it was pretty clear they were sequential and there was room to grow.
Those of us who arrived before 2000 (or were born in Korea before that year) had numbers that started with 1 or 2, foreigner or Korean. The change to 3 and 4 started that year for Korean citizens. Ours were changed to 5 or 6 regardless (or whether our previous numbers were 1/2 or 3/4).
The Ministry of Justice stated that the reason for changing the foreigner ID numbers was to allow us to be able to participate in online transactions on Korean websites. Unfortunately and typically, they blew it. The only way it works for us is if and only if a website administrator downloads and runs a program that allows his site to recognize our numbers. Since there's no incentive for any website administrator to do that, it doesn't get done. It would have been so easy for the Korean government to make numbers for us that would have worked, but of course, gotta keep the foreigners different.
Anyway, as someone else noted, not only do many sites require a valid number, some require that the number match the name, which just won't happen for us. |
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IconsFanatic
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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Type in the Korean phrase for "Korean national identity number" in a search engine, and you'll find some pages (i.e. resumes) that have people's names and ID numbers.
Just use one of those, if all you need is membership on some message forum. |
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