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JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Yeah, yeah... no plastic strip. But don't you rest easy, don't you dare rest easy. Because I've got two words -- no, three words for you. Money-sniffer dogs.

Yep, they've got 'em. Training starts when they're just pups. Simple stuff first. Like butt-sniffing. Then they move up to crotch-sniffing. And then they try the more challenging material. Challenging, but rewarding. Drug-sniffing. They like that. And if they show real promise, it's straight to money-sniffing school.

Eventually they graduate and earn their Sniffer-Dog badges. They're generally deployed in teams of two: a keen-snouted canine who can catch the scent of a single greenback at the bottom of a jar of kimchee. He's that good. The other dog is a rottweiler, and all he can smell is human fear. And he doesn't like it.

So there you are, slithering through Incheon passport control & security like you haven't a care, and suddenly BAM!! These two are ON you! Oh, these two are DOUBLE-DOGGING your ass!!! I tell you, they're good-dog/bad-dogging you for a fool, fool!!

Oh yeah, that money's safe in your money-belt or up the donkey hole, ooooohhh SUUUUUUUURE it is! Twisted Evil

stumptown · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:32 am Post subject:

pegpig · Joined: 10 May 2005

stumptown · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:35 am Post subject:

Actually those little magnetic strips can be removed quite easily. I did one once for a friend that tried to scan the code, but at the same time, I wonder if you did that if that would de-authenticize the bills' legitimacy.

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

I think getting a korean friend to send it out for you seems to be a good idea, I know a few who have done it that way.

Equally i know of several people who have just taken it out in cash in their bags- 20 M won or more. They generally don't search, although it is a risk i suppose.

What about putting it all on your korean credit card (some people have them), then withdrawing it the other end?

The problem is that you can't really wire out it out fast enough, or enough of it , if you have a substantial amount saved.

stumptown · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:04 am Post subject:

stumptown · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:11 am Post subject:

Could you really trust a Korean with your money especially with them knowing the fact that you aren't coming back? That one sounds risky to me

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

If there is an expenses limit of say, 10 M won every time you leave Incheon, maybe you could fly out/ferry to japan and back several times, taking more every time. There are presumably no restrictions on taking money out of japan. (Thats why its such a successful, open economy).

stumptown · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:19 am Post subject:

Ok, but does that explain wiring money home from Japan as to Korea. What are the costs and processes there? What do you need for documentation to send money from Japan to the US/Canada/Oz/Kiwiland?

turtlepi1 · Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Just change it and DO claim it.

There are no restrictions on how much money you can bring into your home country. The restriction is how much you can bring in without filling out a form.

I'm taking a money draft for $20000 canadian home when I go.
Telling them I am paying off bills with it.

hari seldon · Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Location: Incheon

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

PolyChronic Time Girl · Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Location: Korea Exited

What is the limit amount of money you can take on the plane without declaring? I thought it was cash less than $10,000?

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

I don't mean to be a bore, and I realise this doesn't address the "how do I...?" question.

But if people remit funds through a bank as they go along (all nice & legal), they won't have these massive piles of cash that they don't know how to repatriate legally. Is it just a "can't be bothered" thing? Since most of us are here primarily for the money, it would seem very much worth the bother. Or am I missing something?

FWIW, I didn't know or care how to remit money from Korea until years after arriving, because I didn't earn enough that I could have saved anything. That changed. These days there are tens/hundreds of thousands of Chinese & other foreign labourers legally remitting money home, month in and month out. No reason why foreign teachers can't learn how.