Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Choman10]

Why is it that when a korean website asks for my alien registration number it works half of the time? For example when I'm ordering something I click on foreigner registration, and then it asks for my alien registration number and it says its not valid. But then I go to another website and do the exact same thing it works?

[jizza]

You are not the only one. This has been exactly my experience. The ID works about 50% of the time. Welcome to life as a foreigner in Korea!

[DHC]

Some sites have installed the software that processes ARC numbers and some have not. This is also true of some local gu offices.

[jizza]

I'm pretty sure Alien ARC isn't handled the same way as Korean Resident IDs. For example I couldn't buy Starcraft 2 with my Alien ARC. It just didn't work. I highly doubt that was the case for Korean Resident IDs.

[sallymonster]

I have this problem, too. For example, I was able to register for Ticketmonster, but the other Korean deal sites said that my name didn't match my ID number, even though I checked the option for "외국인". It drives me crazy!

[cheolsu]

The last seven digits of ID numbers tell the story. For foreign men born in the 1900s, the first number of the last seven is a 5. For foreign women, that's a 6. Korean men born in the last century have a 1, Korean women have a 2. Korean citizens born after 2000 have a 3 or 4 depending on their gender.

Many websites are only equipped to handle a string starting with a 1 or a 2.

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