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[bababooey]

I have an MA, no BA. I was granted a Baccalaureate Equivalent by the school I was looking at getting a BA from because they assesssed my previous four years at two other schools as equivalent to what would be required for a BA with them. The two choices presented to me at the time were spend one year taking classes towards a BA with their name on it or accept the equivalency and take 2 years with them towards a Masters. This is not too common in Canada though it might be in the UK, which is why people here might have a problem with it.

Not sure if much has changed since I was in Korea 2001-2008 but I had no problems getting good jobs with just my MA when I was there. Aside from my first year cutting my teeth in a hagwon I had the standard 12 hour a week, 6 month a year uni gigs with all the privates I could handle.

Immigration might handle things different now, I don't know, but it never presented a problem when it was explained to them, just make sure you speak Korean well enough or have someone else who does to explain the situation to them as you go through the process.

The only place I really experienced a problem with this was in Canada where an opportunity for promotion required a BA and there was a lot of red tape to having my "stand alone MA" accepted, it all worked out in the end though.

So, good luck and please post the outcome of your situation, who knows maybe sometime in the future I'll be knocking on the doors of Korean Immi again with my stand alone MA.

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