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Konglishman
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Nanjing
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
To be fair, what Steve wrote is not entirely accurate.
It's not technically illegal for a foreigner to own and run a business in Korea,
but depending on who/where/ and when you have to deal with various gov't
officials, they will go out of their way to make life difficult for you.
To those of you who've made it,
Bravo!! Good on ya!  |
Plus, it just came to my attention that this particular Steve Schertzer is an infamous personality in the ESL world. So, take anything that he says with a grain of salt. In fact, now that I think about it, it seems likely that poster whom I was arguing with, was likely Steve's sock. |
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Xylox
Joined: 09 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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| This place strung me along for 3 weeks my first time round in Korea, sent them docs and everything, never heard from them again. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
To be fair, what Steve wrote is not entirely accurate.
It's not technically illegal for a foreigner to own and run a business in Korea,
but depending on who/where/ and when you have to deal with various gov't
officials, they will go out of their way to make life difficult for you.
To those of you who've made it,
Bravo!! Good on ya! |
There are thousands of foreign owned businesses in Korea and the number keeps increasing every year.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90778/90861/7421966.html
If it were as difficult as you make it out to be...the number would be decreasing not increasing.
As of 2009 the number of foreign owned firms was 9,075...three years on it's likely to have increased. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:55 am Post subject: |
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As difficult as I made it out to be?
Well, please let me clarify then;
I said depending on where you are, who you deal with etc.
I doubt that is as simple for someone in some small city as it would be for someone in Seoul, that's all I'm trying to say.
And furthermore, it's probably a lot easier for Chinese to set up shop than
Canadians (for example). The language barrier being the greatest issue. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
As difficult as I made it out to be?
Well, please let me clarify then;
I said depending on where you are, who you deal with etc.
I doubt that is as simple for someone in some small city as it would be for someone in Seoul, that's all I'm trying to say.
And furthermore, it's probably a lot easier for Chinese to set up shop than
Canadians (for example). The language barrier being the greatest issue. |
Simply hire a translator. The U.S (which for the main part speaks the same language as Canadians) has the second biggest presence in foreign owned businesses in Korea...well ahead of the Chinese.
The language barrier doesn't seem all that much of an issue. Nor does it seem an issue for the Japanese who have the biggest share of foreign-owned business here.
So it doesn't appear like the Koreans are particularly going out of their way to make things difficult for them. |
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