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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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 Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject: My trip to the Canadian Embassy |
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I needed something notarized, so I went there this morning. Their hours of service are only 4 a day, and this was not one of them (no service Wed. morning) but they gave me service anyways. Nice of them.
Well, they stamped my paper 2 times and charged me 45,000 won for it.
On the bulletin board beside me, there was a newspaper article about being in foreign prisons. Someone wrote 'bs' on it (not abbreviated) in pen. I let the lady know, and she took it down.
Somehow I expected better out of the embassy. |
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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: Re: My trip to the Canadian Embassy |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
| Somehow I expected better out of the embassy. |
 why? |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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On the bulletin board beside me, there was a newspaper article about being in foreign prisons. Someone wrote 'bs' on it (not abbreviated) in pen. I let the lady know, and she took it down.
Somehow I expected better out of the embassy.
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Maybe it had appeared quite recently and they didn't know it was there. They took it down when you pointed it out. They gave you a service on a day they don't usually.
If there was anyone to expect better from, it would be the jerk who wrote on the bulletin board article in the first place. I guess he/she thinks being in a foreign prison is OK |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:13 pm Post subject: yes |
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Actually, I was referring to the idiot who wrote the profanity.
At times, I swear like a sailor too, but I know the time and place.
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On the bulletin board beside me, there was a newspaper article about being in foreign prisons. Someone wrote 'bs' on it (not abbreviated) in pen. I let the lady know, and she took it down.
Somehow I expected better out of the embassy.
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Maybe it had appeared quite recently and they didn't know it was there. They took it down when you pointed it out. They gave you a service on a day they don't usually.
If there was anyone to expect better from, it would be the jerk who wrote on the bulletin board article in the first place. I guess he/she thinks being in a foreign prison is OK |
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canuckistan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:26 pm Post subject: Re: yes |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
Actually, I was referring to the idiot who wrote the profanity.
At times, I swear like a sailor too, but I know the time and place.
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On the bulletin board beside me, there was a newspaper article about being in foreign prisons. Someone wrote 'bs' on it (not abbreviated) in pen. I let the lady know, and she took it down.
Somehow I expected better out of the embassy.
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Maybe it had appeared quite recently and they didn't know it was there. They took it down when you pointed it out. They gave you a service on a day they don't usually.
If there was anyone to expect better from, it would be the jerk who wrote on the bulletin board article in the first place. I guess he/she thinks being in a foreign prison is OK |
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My bad, I mistook the wording in your post to mean it was the embassy's fault.
Every time I've had to go down there it's cost between 30,000 to 100,000W for whatever I needed to get signed/processed. Hit the bank up before you go for anything... The upside is there isn't usually a big wait.. sleepy little Fed gov't outpost that it is... |
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tomwaits
Joined: 05 Feb 2003
Location: PC Bong
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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b's ??
I found them (one lady in particular) to be very pleasant and helpful..Got good advice when I had an Immigration issue. Also had a problem withthe window expiring on a Chinese visa and I need a passport adjustment----they broke their own policy and speeded things up-very cool.
Having said that don't go there with E-2 and labor issues---or police matters-it ain't their job and they won't get involved. But with what they do I was always happy and never left angry. But yes-bring money.  |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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I was just there, too. Very polite and efficient, but bloody unbelievably expensive. When I needed something notorised at the Korean consulate in Canada it was something like $3Cdn. You'd think that with Canada's tax rate vs. Korea's it should be the other way round.
It was also interesting to walk by the American Embassy afterward. It's a fortress surrounded by riot police and security devises, versus ours, a simple unguarded office building with a free computer to use and a library to browse while you wait. Some things really make me thankful I wasn't born 100 miles south of where I was. |
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turtlepi1
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:53 pm Post subject: Re: My trip to the Canadian Embassy |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
Their hours of service are only 4 a day, and this was not one of them (no service Wed. morning) but they gave me service anyways. Nice of them.
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Did you write it this way on purpose or have you just been in Korea too long? 
(I once got serviced at the Canadian Embassy but that is a whole other story) (j/k) |
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