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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 2:51 am Post subject: Foreigners Caught Working Illegally |
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118 Foreigners Caught Working Illegally
Among the foreigners, Americans were the most numerous with 38, followed by 16 Canadians, five Germans, four British, four French and four Japanese. There were also people from Australia, Ireland, Italy and Spain. By job categories, advertising business hire the most people illegally at 49, followed by the entertainment sector with 40. There were 23 English instructors hired illegally and 13 were hired in the broadcasting area.
The Seoul Immigration Bureau said Monday that it apprehended the violators, while levying a total of 38.8 million won on the foreigners before deporting 38 of them. The ministry claimed punishments in many cases need to be increased because most of the foreigners were receiving huge remunerations, and will consequently consider raising the fines.
The employers and brokers were fined a total of 62.5 million won, the bureau added.
By Moon Gwang-lip, Korea Times (May 9, 2005)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200505/kt2005050917135811960.htm |
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pet lover
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 2:59 am Post subject: |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 3:05 am Post subject: |
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Wowee Zowee. A whopping 23 illegal English instructors.
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 3:22 am Post subject: |
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Nice pic, I may start posting this after every RR link buffet. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 3:49 am Post subject: |
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RR, you missed the great closing paragraph!
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| The immigration agency nabbed a famous German DJ for working illegally at Hongdae clubs, who reportedly got 5 million won for only four hours work. |
Gee now... I wonder who THAT could be  
Does Paul like Suwon Prison kimchi, I wonder
That can't really be Paul
I mean seriously, can it? |
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riverboy
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:32 am Post subject: |
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| Damn advertising ruining the %$#$% country. Deport them I say Deport them all! |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| riverboy wrote: |
| Damn advertising ruining the %$#$% country. Deport them I say Deport them all! |
Yeah! To hell with advertisers!!! 
(yipes!)
And 13 illegals in broadcasting   If at least half that number aren't gyopos, then I'm calling "RACISM!!!" (Or they'd better define what they mean by "broadcasting")
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 5:21 am Post subject: |
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Someone I know who works at Incheon Airport tells me that Immigration makes entertainment visas difficult to get. A lot of the big acts that come here from abroad end up performing on landing visas. That 4 million is nothing. Immigration could have busted MUCH higher profile celebrities if they wanted do.
Hub of Asia, right? |
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Gollum
Joined: 04 Sep 2003
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 5:42 am Post subject: |
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Notice that only a VERY small part of those were English teachers? 23 out off 110? Wow.... not much to worry about, eh?
Some MASSIVE illegal teacher crackdown (ahahahah).
This one made me laugh, too:
"The K-1 tournament for mixed martial arts (MMA) was also found to be the place where foreigners were working without proper documentation. "
Also, I'm guessing they busted a lot of people doing illegal acting on TV shows. I know for a fact that one popular foreigner show on TV was paying over 1,000,000 won per week in hush money to immigration for quite some time. Why don't they ever report this in the media? |
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hari seldon
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 5:46 am Post subject: |
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Do the Korean advertising firms use Western models or copywriters or what?
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hari seldon
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| Someone I know who works at Incheon Airport tells me that Immigration makes entertainment visas difficult to get... |
That's asinine. |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 6:06 am Post subject: |
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| Don't those Russian bar girls come to Korea on entertainer visas or has that changed? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| Cthulhu wrote: |
| Don't those Russian bar girls come to Korea on entertainer visas or has that changed? |
Russian bargirls from Uijeongbu to Busan, everyone sees them, everyone knows the score.... And who does Korean Immigration go after? People at a martial arts tournament (  ... still don't get that one), 13 people in "broadcasting", some people in "advertising", and one "very famous German DJ" -- That's who.  |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, there does seem to be a double standard at work here. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 7:07 am Post subject: |
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| hari seldon wrote: |
| Do the Koreean advertising firms use Western models or copywriters or what? |
I think more than a few English teachers have been hired as company representatives. They do PR for the company and a bit of teaching on the side (me thinks). |
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