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[luckylady]

[Troglodyte]

[stew1988]

Troglodyte, I have just one question...are you naturally a complete *beep* or have you been taking lessons?

[stew1988]

make of that beep what you will

[YTMND]

[Zyzyfer]

[Troglodyte]

[stew1988]

Everyone did not tell me to just get on a flight and come to Korea. This was not the best option at the time and the most sensible of responses suggested doing exactly what I did. It would have most probably have worked out if things had not conspired against me. What exactly is so hard to believe about my story?

1. I don't have a great deal of money and thus I wanted to do the most sensible thing. Sure I want to go out to Korea, but I didn't just want to go out to a hornets nest of a situation. If I found a job from the UK then that would guarantee me a job, a place to live and a reimbursed or prepaid flight. I was told by immigration that it WAS NOT them who rejected me and thus led to believe that if I found a supporting prospective employer then I would be home and dry. This was always the best option, much better than arriving in Korea with no job, a set of documents and a bit of hope. I would have to have maintained myself for however long it took to find a job, I would have to have paid my own flight and I faced the danger that it may still have not worked out. Seeing as immigration does not return documents then I would have been left in a terrible situation.

Now I find myself writing messages to idiotic mugs that go by the name of Troglodyte on an Internet forum...that about sums my life up at the moment.

I have the money to fly to South Korea, I always did. By all good decency however, one would have assumed I would have got back in by now the way I did things. Whilst what I write may sound unbelievable and the way things have panned out may seem dangerously unlucky, bordering on the fantastical, quite frankly, I don't give a damn.

So what have I gained by coming to these forums? Well very little in terms of the abuse and utter bollocks spouted by apparently very angry characters like YTMMSPMT or Troglodyte...I have however been able to write and retell my story which has been helpful. I've also received some actually handy advice along the way too.

I can't really see the point of continuing the discussion anymore. I will indeed fly to Korea, it seems as though I have little choice. I will also continue to work in the UK until I can sustain myself financially upon arrival.

I'm glad I've entertained you over recent times with my posts, it's been a pleasure.

[Baron]

I did a runner on my previous job around a year ago.

I went back to my home country for a while and came back to Korea with a set of new documents and managed to secure a new job within a couple of weeks.

My employer discovered however when I applied for my visa (at a different immi. office than the immi. office where I had my previous visa) that I had done a runner from my previous job.

I had and still have a great relationship with my current boss so he just asked me about the problem. I told him the truth about what happened and he had no problem with processing the visa.

He told me that my previous employer had put in a complaint to immi. and that he had to write a note explaining he was fine with my previous transgression and immi. would process the visa. The visa was duly processed with the minimum of fuss.

I took it that it was immi's role to inform my prospective employer of my previous transgression but not to deny the visa.

It was a very lucky outcome for me. My only issue now is applying for a new job when my contract is finished.

I'm still a little worried that my previous runner will be brought up with all prospective employers in the future.

Good luck to you in your search anyhow! Be persistent and I'm sure something will turn up!

[YTMND]

[isitts]

[stew1988]

Yeah, his abusive, sarcastic and often absurd advice has been very helpful to my cause...you will see how I have thanked those who have assisted, and rightfully mocked the angry little sect of life that co-exists on these forums.

Allow me to appease your sect and that will be the end of it...enjoy...

- Yes, I got deported. Following the almost fatal instance with the pizza cutter during morning playtime, I found myself on the run. I was just driven to the edge and there it was, the pizza cutter just starring at me beside a steaming bowl of ddakdoritang...I hold no regrets...in a futile attempt to escape by boat to Jeju and set up a new life for myself and my pregnant wife, I was caught and apprehended by the many men of Suwon immigration (what they lacked in size they made up for in sheer numbers). Without my pizza cutter at hand, the numbers game was too much for the best of us!

- They handcuffed me and placed me in a small, dark and dank room back at the immigration centre. Bread and Kimchi was the order of the day. I was interrogated intensely in a language that I could not understand until one day, out of the blue, I head an almighty bang...my wife had come to break me free. She is a black belt in Tae Kwondo and overpowered the men with ease. She tied them up, we stole the officers uniforms and set off for Busan. Slinking across to Japan by ferry, we laid low with one of my friends in Osaka for a few days. Some how, some way, Korean immigration had found us, employing some form of Yakuza headhunters to track us down...At the front door, we sleuthed out of the Fire escape and ran for our lives. The eventualities between that point and arriving in the UK are very dark indeed and I fear, too horrific for the PG rating of these forums.

Cheers

[stew1988]

Hi Baron,

cheers for that. Your situation sounds similar, however immigration pointed out to myself and my prospective boss the essential difference. With your situation, you got back in to Korea on the first attempt. You came to an understanding with the school and immigration gave you the number...they provided me with the same option the first time around, however the school were having none of it...

The man at Incheon immigration told me that Ansan Immigration may have rejected me because of my failed attempt to get back in via Incheon immigration. Ansan essentially consider this a rejection by immigration and this will go against me with future applications. Essentially, immigration find it very difficult to give a visa number following another immigration branches rejection. So my error was not being honest from the outset with my first attempt. The man at Incheon also said that he was powerless to influence the decision at Ansan in anyway.

Good luck with everything and I'm sure you will have no problem when reapplying. You were never rejected by immigration so no problem, probably...

[hogwonguy1979]

I think stews problem may be he told his employer and immig that he was planning to bring a pot-bellied pig to Korea.

[stew1988]

If only I had known about their well documented hatred of pot bellied pigs! You live and learn...