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big_fella1
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
Fair point about who runs the household! 
I understand your challenge and how hard it can be to make the decision. I guess my situation was different as we always had lucrative options in Korea (long term) and Canada. We had no intention of moving but what I will call an unusual set of circumstances led us to end up moving to Canada.
I am aware our situation was more favorable than that of many other expats, then again I had done my best to hedge my bets and leave myself lots of professional options.
Best of luck to you! |
Thanks, thinking of who is the boss makes me think an inabilty for the wife to communicate with me would ease my selective amnesia.  |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 6:08 am Post subject: |
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Side topic but I will say that one of the biggest challenges we have had and still sometimes have as a multi-cultural couple is the issue of and the approach towards education of our kids.
We both had to concede on some points and to compromise. Since we moved to Canada, the onus is on us to maintain the link with Korea and Korean heritage and culture, while in Korea it was Canadian culture ans heritage that had to be valued and maintained.
The approach to education is also a topic of discussion in our house. Our son attends elementary school and how we deal with his education is a point of debate (quite normal) and we both compromised for what we feel is a happy medium for him and us.
In order not to sidetrack this thread further, if this is a topic you wish to discuss, feel free to pm me..or heck there could possibly be an old thread on this!
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 6:30 am Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| Ginormousaurus wrote: |
| Captain Corea wrote: |
As far as I know, Canada has no income requirements for sponsoring a spouse while overseas. If, however, you are sponsoring from Canada, I think there is one - just so we have that smidgen of information added in.  |
I'm in the final stages of sponsoring (from within Canada) my fiance for permanent residency. There were no income requirements for either of us. I am a full-time student and she came immediately after graduating university. |
It will vary from province to province. Also your sponsorship agreement makes you completely financially responsible for your fiance for a certain number of years.
The form I linked earlier does have a section that requires you show how you will support your spouse financially. |
While they did not specifically ask how much money I make, there was a section where I provided a detailed outline of how I will financially support the two of us. The info I provided must have been sufficient because I was approved to sponsor her.
We're expecting to hear the outcome of the application any day now. Over a month ago we were informed that "a decision has been made and [they] will contact us soon". I have no reason to suspect that she will not be granted permanent residency. They have already given her a two-year work visa. |
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chungbukdo
Joined: 22 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| The ease of the TOPIC level 1 is exceptional. Back when I signed up for the KIIP prior to applying for citizenship I tested at level 4 - 5ish and I do not consider myself to be fluent in Korean |
How did you test "level 4-5ish" when the 3-4 TOPIK test is different from the 5-6 TOPIK test? I find it suspect that you can't even abbreviate the test name properly, especially since the K stands for Korean. I think you did not take the TOPIK test and are just posting useless and misguided information. |
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big_fella1
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| chungbukdo wrote: |
| tob55 wrote: |
| The ease of the TOPIC level 1 is exceptional. Back when I signed up for the KIIP prior to applying for citizenship I tested at level 4 - 5ish and I do not consider myself to be fluent in Korean |
How did you test "level 4-5ish" when the 3-4 TOPIK test is different from the 5-6 TOPIK test? I find it suspect that you can't even abbreviate the test name properly, especially since the K stands for Korean. I think you did not take the TOPIK test and are just posting useless and misguided information. |
tob55 is Korean now.
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chungbukdo
Joined: 22 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| big_fella1 wrote: |
So suppose I'm a Korean who majored in Vietnamese at University and worked in Vietnam where I met and fell in love with a Vietnamese nuclear physicist who is fluent in Vietnamese, French and English. She will then be required to pass a Korean test to get a marriage visa for Korea, even though we'd speak in Vietnamese at home.
Is there anything else the state would like to regulate, like how we have sex? |
While I lived in the countryside, I took a KIIP class with foreign brides. I was the only male to register. Anyway there was one girl in my class who was not purchased. She was Filipino, spoke excellent English, and her husband was a Korean English teacher. They met in the Philippines, fell in love, and communicated in English. Her job in Korea? English teacher at her husbands hakwon. Therefore, in order to go about her daily work activity, relationship, and most moments of her day she could rely on English. The only exception is if she wanted to talk to the uneducated, old and dying population of our little town, for whatever unknown reason. |
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tob55
Joined: 29 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:16 am Post subject: |
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| big_fella1 wrote: |
| chungbukdo wrote: |
| tob55 wrote: |
| The ease of the TOPIC level 1 is exceptional. Back when I signed up for the KIIP prior to applying for citizenship I tested at level 4 - 5ish and I do not consider myself to be fluent in Korean |
How did you test "level 4-5ish" when the 3-4 TOPIK test is different from the 5-6 TOPIK test? I find it suspect that you can't even abbreviate the test name properly, especially since the K stands for Korean. I think you did not take the TOPIK test and are just posting useless and misguided information. |
tob55 is Korean now. |
Thanks big-fella1, I suppose the misspelling of the acronym is minor in light of the fact that as you said I AM a Korean citizen now after going through the training process and taking the test prior to it. So, comments are just comments, and I have no interest in agruing points with anyone on the forum. However, I would like to thank chungbukdo for pointing out the spelling error though. I tend to be up in the very early hours of the morning before going to work and sometimes my fingers don't want to cooperate with the keyboard.
As for the thread, take the TOPIK test, sign up for KIIP and you will not regret it. It was a great experience for me and really helped when I went through the application and interview process for my citizenship. |
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