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mithridates · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:32 am Post subject: Should I continue my petition?

I assume most everybody knows about the petition I started to change the resident registration system so that foreigners and gyopos abroad who don't have numbers can register online like all Koreans can? I would have done it just for us, the foreigners living in Korea, but since there's quite a number of gyopos living abroad who won't be coming back to Korea any time soon but still use Korean internet sites a lot, a mere recognition of our numbers won't solve the problem.

Anyway, that's not the point of this post...I'm back in Korea in two days. Foreigners in Korea aren't supposed to engage in political activities and I wonder if this counts as one. I assume it does, so should I keep looking for signatories while I'm there or just let it lie for a while? We've already amassed 1634 signatures so far so there's quite a bit of interest. I started this back in August if I remember correctly.

I searched around a bit for the penalties incurred as a foreigner engaging in political activity but couldn't find anything.

tommynomad · Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Location: on the move

fandeath · Joined: 01 Nov 2004

Sorry, I doubt the petition will ever be considered some sort of 'threat' nor will they have a file on you like the FBI does.

That is my guess.

rawiri · Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.

Hey...i just took 2 minutes out of my life to sign it...don't let me down there man.

funplanet · Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Location: The new Bucheon!

keep it up

ladyandthetramp · Joined: 21 Nov 2003

I think that political activity by foreigners ban was directed more at the illegal immigrants who protest their work conditions regularly...not completely sure, though.

A petition to make websites more accessible to non-Koreans so that Korean companies can possibly make more money is unlikely to piss anyone off too much.