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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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 Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: Can you be refused a phone? |
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| Gord wrote: |
| lush72 wrote: |
| Thats right! Dont you know that the good, honest Korean people ALWAYS honor the contract? They ALWAYS pay the bill, and on time to boot! Its THE EXACT SAME with credit cards! Koreans always pay on time, every time! |
But when a citizen defaults, they can take steps to forcibly reclaim the money owed. Non-citizens can simply return home and then the options to force a repayment are cost prohibitive.
If us foreigners really did have an excellent track record on paying past bills, then we would be getting stacks of application forms to fill out on the flight over. |
Perhaps.
On the other hand, I very much doubt that there is an accessible database of phone bill defaulters broken down by nationality. I suspect rather that it is the anecdotal belief that a foreigner, more often than not, will run up huge phone bills and then flee Korea. |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!
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| Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: Can you be refused a phone? |
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| Gord wrote: |
| What do credit card defaulters have to do with currency rates? |
As far as I can tell, nothing!
The IMF bailout was not due to currency rates, although it did influence them. |
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[email protected]
Joined: 06 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 11:55 pm Post subject: Cheaper Method |
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Purchase a pay as you go.
Purchase a phone card for Korea.
much cheaper and then just use the phone card (toll free 080) |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:28 am Post subject: |
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| ryleeys wrote: |
I've had several buses refuse to stop for me when I was the only person waiting at the stop (and yes, I did raise my hand and try to flag them down).
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Yeahh... you need a Korean co-waiter... |
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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 11:24 pm Post subject: Re: Cheaper Method |
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| [email protected] wrote: |
Purchase a pay as you go.
Purchase a phone card for Korea.
much cheaper and then just use the phone card (toll free 080) |
That's the way to go. Buy the phone, buy the time ahead, no problem. LG telecom, for one, will set you up in ten minutes. |
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