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tob55
Joined: 29 Apr 2007
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littlelisa
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 11:10 pm Post subject: Re: Been here 9 years! and can't get a Long Term Resident Vi |
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| World Traveler wrote: |
| swashbuckler wrote: |
| It's actually quite shocking that you've lived here for nine years but still can't pass level 3 TOPIK. |
The overwhelming majority of Westerners who have lived in Korea for nine plus years wouldn't be able to pass it. I've met A LOT of lifers. Very very few can converse even halfway decently in Korean. It's a hard language. And adults can't learn languages as well as children. Certainly not as quickly/effortlessly. |
I've passed level 3, and I've only taken two three week intensive classes (rest was self-study, talking with friends, and learning from things around me). It's not easy, but I don't think that the majority of Westerners living here for 9+ years couldn't do it. I've been living here for less time than that.
Actually, I find it relatively easy to get residency here. I got the F2-99 visa, and should get my F5 next year. From what I hear, residency visa + time gives you an almost automatic F5. And to get the F2-99 was quite easy too. They just want proof of a job and enough money to support yourself and minimal Korean proficiency, that's it. If you have the 5 consecutive years of working here, the rest is very easy. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| kimchi_pizza wrote: |
Gotta appreciate the complexity of it all. For a good reason. Nothing more damagin to
local and national economy than money invested or earned here only to be spent elsewhere.
Say an expat lived here for 15 years~ great. Where will that retirement be spent? Thailand?
Philippines? More concern is spent maken sure you stick around long enough that your income is back on the Korean table rather than say a questionable character lookn to leave once that pot has been swept in.
A single resident? No big deal. But a hundred expats? Several hundred? A thousand? Ouch~~ Korean income spent on foreign soil? A painful pimple on any economy that can eventually become an abbess.
But with one country lookn to catch up on Japan? The belt tightens... |
Retirement on a beach in another country? Well, I've paid into the Korean pension. It's not much, but it's mine and I can spend it where ever I want. |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Who's Your Daddy? wrote: |
One can get permanent residency in Hong Kong after 7 years.
I think the points visa is too restrictive. I think the visa was designed to placate the UN, and Korean government doesn't really want anyone to get it. |
No No No...it's NOT the korean government....it's some guy working for immigration who has power and convinces others to go along with what he wants...
we all "blame" the government for whatever....has nothing to do with government....it's people who get a hair up their rear ends.
Somewhere, someone...pissed off this immigration person and messed it up for everyone.... |
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