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northway · Joined: 05 Jul 2010

I know a few people who've been arrested and were able to renew their visas. Offenses include punching a cab driver in the face, knocking out a gyopo's tooth at Harlem in Gangnam, and being so drunk the guy couldn't remember why he ended up at the police station in the first place.

Koreadays · Joined: 20 May 2008

northway · Joined: 05 Jul 2010

decolyon · Joined: 24 Jul 2010

This is way off topic, but it reminds me of a story I heard a few years ago.

There was this foreigner teaching down on Jeju. He was a large guy. Over 6'2''. Tipping 300+ pounds. Really big, intimidating guy. But taught kinder down there, so he was just a big teddy bear.

Anyways, he and his friends were out drinking one night during the summer at the local pubs. Of course, like most weekends, he was really over doing it. Just getting hammered. They had the good idea around 2am to head down to the beach for a skinny dip. Some how some people got lost on the way and others decided to turn back. Only big boy and a few others made it to swim. They strip, but being so wasted, they get separated in the water and big guy, still hammered drunk, heads back to shore. (Don't worry, no one drowns or gets hurt.) So after a while, the guy is still drunk and can't find his clothes. All he can locate are his boxers. He decides it's no big deal, hops on his scooter and takes off, headed home. Still drunk, swerving the streets, the 300 lbs soaking wet waygook is straddled this tiny scooter in his underwear just cruizing.

He makes it back to (what he thinks is) his apartment. The door was unlocked and so he barrels in. Goes to his bed and low and behold, there's some strange Korean guy in his bed. Big boy flips out! Starts screaming and yelling, picks up this tiny Korean dude, drags him by his collar and heaves him out the front door. You can imagine what that poor guy must have been thinking. He's all asleep in his bed, it's the middle of the night, and suddenly this hulking foreigner screaming his head off his tossing his ass out of his own apartment. The foreigner goes back inside and passes out on the bed. The Korean guys calls the cops, and they show up, but knock on the door for hours, and can't get the guy to come to the door. Morning rolls around and big guy has finally sobered up enough to realize he has no idea where he is. Still in just his boxers, he stumbles out of the apartment to find the Korean guy and one of the cops still waiting in the hall sleeping. Why they just waited there is anybodies guess. The Korean guy catches him before he gets too far and the rest of that day they held him at the police station, trying to figure out exactly what the hell happened last night.

I mean, I've heard some pretty epic drunk stories, but that sticks out in my head. It cracks me up to imagine that poor dude being ripped from his slumber by a beligerent 6'2'' 300 pound gorilla screaming god knows what at him and then tossing him out of the door.

Died By Bear · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 1:10 am Post subject:

Damn, that's one for the record books deconlyondude. Very Happy

bushell1212 · Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Location: Bucheon - South Korea

If the police arrested you but you paid money to the car owner in question then I take it that you took a signed letter from said party to the police station??

After this the police will ask you to write a statement because an arrest has occurred and once started has to go through the full process. It goes to the prosecutors office who then decide whether to further the case or not. As sounds in your case, this is as far as it went. The prosecutors office send you a letter stating that the case is being taken no further and no criminal charges are being brought.

With regards to then applying for and receiving a new visa, you will encounter no problems from the CRC or from immigration. The problem may simply arise in that the school could choose to not renew your visa if they know the situation and take umbridge that it happened under their employment.

PatrickGHBusan · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:10 am Post subject:

r122925 · Joined: 02 Jun 2011

There's a lot of conflicting information and speculation being tossed around here. Can anyone point to an official source of some kind? Say a government website maybe? In either English or Korean? What does and does not show up on a Korean record check? And what constitutes grounds for refusal of visa renewal? To the original poster, it may be something to worry about but I would try to get some real information from someone that knows what they're talking about before you start packing your bags. Why not go to a police station and get a record check yourself to find out? It can be done in a few minutes, doesn't take months like back home.

I'll add an anecdote of my own. I worked with foreign teacher several years ago who was arrested for drunk driving. He had to pay some fines and had his license suspended for a few months. He's still in Korea, has renewed his E2 multiple times since then, and as far as I know his employer never found out about it. I don't know if his employer ever asked for a check, but surely immigration would be able to find out about it. So, either this guy slipped through the cracks somehow, or these checks aren't as big of a deal as some are making them out to be.

On a side note.... I find it ammusing that if you got arrested for drunk driving in your home country you would never be able to get a visa to come here in the first place, but if you do it here they'll let you stay.

PatrickGHBusan · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 3:24 am Post subject:

Official source for the OP: call the cops and ask about the record. Talk to immigration and ask about the impact of this.

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Koreadays · Joined: 20 May 2008

even if he pays the money to the other driver it doesn't mean the government will drop the case.. NOT AT ALL!
a crime has been committed. he was caught DUI!
so he has been finger printed.. which is protocol anyway for anything now.
so he will be charged for driving under the influence, and what ever other charges the police have sited him for.
so the prosecutor will be charging him no question about that.
he will be charged for DUI, depending how over the limit he is will depend on the amount of money he pays for the fine to the city..
and of course he will loose his license for x amount days. there wont be jail time for a first offence.
but he is being charged for DUI.. you can bank on that.