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korian
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 Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:34 am Post subject: when you married your korean partner in korea....... |
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when you married your korean partner in korea, what did your respective embassies give you in terms of recognition of marriage when you went there with the korean papers indicating you'd got married?
i'll be in korea for 11 days in march and i'll marry my k-gal then. i konw i have to get papers/forms etc from the oz embassy, then go down to the local gu office and do the paperwork there then return to the oz embassy with all necessary forms and documents.
as some have siad on this board already, it's at that time that you're officially married right?
so i want to know, do you get a marriage certificate from the gu office or from your embassy? and if it's from your embassy, i'm assuming it's all in english?
the reason i need to know all this is coz i'll be heading over to japan to start work in april. i want my girl to come over to live with me and we've heard she'll have to come on a dependent's visa. to get this we'll need the marriage certificate to show japanese immigration, but i've heard that if the marriage cert. is in korean we could be in trouble. english however should be ok.
anyone have any info. on this?
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:51 am Post subject: Re: when you married your korean partner in korea....... |
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| korian wrote: |
| i'll be in korea for 11 days in march and i'll marry my k-gal then. i konw i have to get papers/forms etc from the oz embassy, then go down to the local gu office and do the paperwork there then return to the oz embassy with all necessary forms and documents. |
Congratulations.
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| as some have siad on this board already, it's at that time that you're officially married right? |
When you officially register with your wife's gu-chong, you are officially married in the eyes of the Korean authority. When you get a marriage certificate, notarised by the Embassy staff and the Korean authority, you are officially married as far as your country is concerned.
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| so i want to know, do you get a marriage certificate from the gu office or from your embassy? and if it's from your embassy, i'm assuming it's all in english? |
Korea doesn't give certificates of any kind. So yeah, you get one from your embassy. Actually, the British Embassy one is a form, which I had to fill out myself, and then they put a big red sticker on it, stamped and signed by the Consulate of the Embassy and that is the certificate.. So it should be in English.
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the reason i need to know all this is coz i'll be heading over to japan to start work in april. i want my girl to come over to live with me and we've heard she'll have to come on a dependent's visa. to get this we'll need the marriage certificate to show japanese immigration, but i've heard that if the marriage cert. is in korean we could be in trouble. english however should be ok.
anyone have any info. on this?
cheers |
Even if it were in Korean, you wouldn't really have any problems because you can have the certificate translated into English, take it to a notar and have it notarised.
Not that it is required as the certificate will be in English. |
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korian
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:22 am Post subject: |
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thanks for your help. much appreciated. just one more thing. when we go down to the gu office, i think i read somewhere that we need two witnesses physically there with us. is that right? and it's ok for the witnesses to be family?
as i'm only there for 11 days i want to get on it immediately and have everything ready to go the minute i get off the plane.
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:29 am Post subject: |
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I don't know about Australia, but none needed for us - there was one section where we had to fill in names of witnesses and their Korean
ID#. Since the forms we took to the gu-chong had already been notarised by the Embassy, the gu-chong people didn't ask for the witnesses.
Just one more thing re gu-chong. When we went to, I think Sodaemun gu chong, as that was the address in my hubby's hojogdongbun, we were told they couldn't process it there because they never dealt with foreigners blah blah.. and we had to go elsewhere -i 'think' dongdaemun. I really am not sure cos it's almost 3 years ago. Just make sure your wife checks before. It'll save you a lot of time. |
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korian
Joined: 26 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:39 am Post subject: |
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good advice. thanks. i think i also read on a sticky or another thread somewhere that the jongno gu chong processes everyone's marriage regardless of actual address in seoul.
confirm or put me straight anyone?
that would be good coz the oz embassy is not far, kwanghwamun if i remember. so we could do it all quite quickly rather than have to go back up to north west seoul to her gu chong. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:42 am Post subject: |
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Don't know about that .. you have to ask.
Yes, the Aussie Embassy is in the Kyobo Building.. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:56 am Post subject: Re: when you married your korean partner in korea....... |
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| korian wrote: |
i'll be in korea for 11 days in march and i'll marry my k-gal then. |
After you're married, will you refer to her as your K-wife?
Sparkles*_* |
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teachmeenglish
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| I second tzechuk notes about the embassy. Canadian embassy gave me copies, I filled them in got them stamped by the embassy. But the process is: Embassy to get paper to prove you are single and pay money - Gu office to get married with ID's of witnesses but not living creatures - embassy to show gu record and get stamp on canadian marrage form - start married bliss together |
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korian
Joined: 26 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks for the help. i certainly look forward to having me a k-wife. then the whole process will begin to get her a dependent's visa for japan. fun fun. |
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peppergirl
Joined: 07 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| korian wrote: |
good advice. thanks. i think i also read on a sticky or another thread somewhere that the jongno gu chong processes everyone's marriage regardless of actual address in seoul.
confirm or put me straight anyone?
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We just went to the gu-office closest to my embassy, I think you can get married in any gu-office, doesn't matter if you live there or not. |
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Sage Monkey
Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:45 am Post subject: Re: when you married your korean partner in korea....... |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 5:03 am Post subject: Re: when you married your korean partner in korea....... |
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| Sage Monkey wrote: |
| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
| korian wrote: |
i'll be in korea for 11 days in march and i'll marry my k-gal then. |
After you're married, will you refer to her as your K-wife?
Sparkles*_* |
I would think that those of us who are married to Korean's wouldn't objectify our partners so much with such a term as "K-wife". Will you also call your children "K-kids" and take them to the park with your "K-dog" when the weather permits it? This "K-lingoism" is really ridiculous and offensive from someone in your position.
Sorry to hijack the thread... back to it now! |
You know I was criticizing the OP as well, right?
I've always thought Kimchi-Making Koncubine to be a much more apt title. 
Sparkles*_* |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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You know, as a woman married to a Korean man, I'd like to say that not all of us make kimchi (I know you are referring to his wife being Korean and making kimchi etc.). My strange Korean husband hates Kimchi and loves blue cheese. I laid down very firm ground before I married him that I would NEVER, EVER in my life make kimchi, nor would I slave in the kitchen hours on ends during holidays. So far, I've done neither  and I do not intend to start any time soon or in the future!
Oh one more thing. I told him I would have no hesitation in uprooting and divorcing him if I ever find out that he's been to a prostitute or even kissed a girl in room salon or whatever.
My point being that not all women (Korean or those married to Korean men) are submissive, which is what Korean TVs want to portrait.... |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:36 am Post subject: |
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I laid down very firm ground before I married him that I would NEVER, EVER in my life make kimchi, nor would I slave in the kitchen hours on ends during holidays. So far, I've done neither and I do not intend to start any time soon or in the future!
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Careful, someone's gonna file that fact away and drag it up at some point to use against you in some weird way.  |
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korian
Joined: 26 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I would think that those of us who are married to Korean's wouldn't objectify our partners so much with such a term as "K-wife". Will you also call your children "K-kids" and take them to the park with your "K-dog" when the weather permits it? This "K-lingoism" is really ridiculous and offensive from someone in your position. |
i'm guessing you have been afflicted with k-humour...
as incredibly 'ridiculous' and inane it is to have to explain things to some of you up tight posters roaming out there, i said k-gal coz it's quicker to type and immediately abrogates the need for anyone to ask if my fiance is korean or not, thus saving time and confusion.
as to my response to the person asking if i'd get a k-wife, i retorted tongue-in-cheek that i would. i guess you missed that.
anyway, thanks for all your information.
for what it's worth, why do so many threads get hijacked by people who just can't help putting in their pointless two cents? if you've got nothing to add top the topic, move on.....it's not that hard.... |
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