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[Chucky]

An yong ha say oooooh!

In a few months i'll be finishing up my year over here. I might renew at the same school, or I might move to a new area in Korea.

How is the process? What docs do I need? Is it all the same? Do I need to get another crim check, transcripts and all that?

Right now I am working for GEPIK. But I would like to move to Busan or a small town and work for EPIK. How would I go about this?

Any help would be very, very, very much appreciated.

Kam sa ham ni daaaaaaa!

[ttompatz]

[kiwigirl :O)]

I renewed for a second year with my school (GEPIK)

their guidelines said I had to re do my medical check and get a new crimincal background check (from my home country not Korea)

so I did, much to my family's expense (40 for apostille, then 40 to fedex it over)

I then get to immigration in Mokdong to be told I didnt need either of those documents, just the contracts and ARC....

My advice would be to call the english speaking service at immigration and double check before you spend a lot of money getting things that are apparently not needed if you are staying at the same school

good luck

[Chucky]

Thanks for the replies.

I don't think I will stay with the same school. And if I do stay in Korea I will move out of Gyeonggi.

So I will either be working for a Hagwon or EPIK.

I guess I need all the docs again then? That's kind of a stupid rule. How am I gonna commit a crime in the US while i'm in Korea? And if I proved that I gracuated college once, why shoul I have to do it again?

Oh well, that's just how it is I guess.

[StavvioD]

It seems pretty stupid for the school to ask you for a CRC from your home country to confirm you still have a clean record since your original one - especially if you've been in Korea for the whole time!