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thaitom
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Phopphra, Thailand
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 12:34 am Post subject: |
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| thaitom wrote: |
| I live in Thailand. |
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| I have been working in Korea since 2002. |
That's quite a commute, isn't it? And you're switching between saying you live in Thailand and you're from Thailand. Have to say, I'm a little confused, too. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| isitts wrote: |
| thaitom wrote: |
| I live in Thailand. |
| thaitom wrote: |
| I have been working in Korea since 2002. |
That's quite a commute, isn't it? And you're switching between saying you live in Thailand and you're from Thailand. Have to say, I'm a little confused, too. |
Thai English teachers are in big demand don't y'know.
Koreans pay extra for a Phuket accent. |
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r122925
Joined: 02 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 6:14 am Post subject: |
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I wonder how immigration became aware of where the OP lives. Was it on your resume? |
I don't know what happened in this situation, but to be fair, every Korean immigration form I have ever seen asks for your "home address", and they won't accept your application if you leave it blank. In my early days in Korea I told the officer that I was quite flattered that he thought I was rich enough to maintain a residence in the United States, but in fact I did not have one. He said "write your parent's address". When I told him that both of my parents had died years ago he looked stumped and just repeated that I must write my home address. I made up a fake address and that was the end of it.
Now, if I had, let's say, a sister or cousin or whoever living in Thailand, I would see no reason not to write her address, as I assume this would be who they contact in an emergency or if they find your dead body or whatever. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 10:01 am Post subject: |
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[quote="Julius
Wrong.
Koreans traditionally do not keep records. In many cases. The idea of keeping records was introduced by the Japanese, during occupation. Before and after that (apart from family genealogies), Koreans basically forget what happened the day before.
They only started keeping weather records in 1998. The immigration database was only introduced in 2010. Before that they simply threw your documents in the bin.[/quote]
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That's not really true. The last time I had applied for an E2, I found that the imm
officials in Busan had records of me from my first E2 back in 2001, including where I worked, addresses, everything was there. They were however very anal
in insisting that I re-submit all the documents they already had seen before for the 9th time.
Sometimes they just want to make you jump through hoops because they
can. |
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