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[ThingsComeAround]

Soon this thread will be locked due to 3 pages of rant.

Edit:
I'm disappointed because I really hope this guy can work out a solution and let us know what he decides.

[CentralCali]

What solution? There really isn't much of a choice there:

1. Come over here unmarried, work illegally in any field that'll take him.
   
2. Come over here married, find a job that will sponsor him without him having a university diploma.
   
3. Come over here married, spend the whole year unemployed.
   
4. Get hired by a US firm which will immediately send him to their Korea branch under their sponsorship.
   
5. Find somewhere else to go.

In order, the problems and realistic value of each of those options:

1. It's illegal. He will get arrested, detained, fined, and deported with a DNR order. Not a realistic option.
   
2. Legal to come here with the spouse as a sponsor. Absent the diploma, it'll be kind of hard to get a job and changing visa type. That's not to mention that knowing nothing of the language will be an incredible setback. Not a realistic option.
   
3. Completely legal. Might be very boring, though. Realistic option.
   
4. In my experience, US firms generally do not send new hires, especially those with (a) no degree or (b) no experience in the target country, overseas. First, they expect the new hire to get used to the way things are done at the firm's US office. That, of course, can very well take longer than the one year contract the significant other has in Korea. Not a realistic option.
   
5. Completely legal and has none of the intricacies involved in getting legal employment in South Korea. Realistic option.

OP: Essentially, your most realistic option is to get your SO to go to another country. Either that or tough out the year apart.

[crescent]

The OP said the thread has been amusing, but they have decided to pursue another option.

[gigure]

Hi All,

Hopefully the war in this thread has come to an end. Thank you for all your helpful and sometimes terribly blunt advice. But, that's what I needed. We had doubts that this would work, but wanted to give it a try. As crescent said, we have come to the realization that Korea isn't for us. We are looking into other options - one being headed up to Northern Canada. My fiance taught up there for two years and the money is good. Cost of living is high though. From the bit of investigating we've done so far, there is a much higher demand for labourers either in mining or the oil sands. One way or another we're going to bank some cash!

Once again thank you for your advice and suggestions. Hopefully the captain and the crescent can make amends.

Annye-eh kaseo! (my woman says)

[Captain Corea]

Good luck to ya, man. Stay warm!

[peregrinejones]

Well that was interesting.