Korean Job Discussion Forums

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

I am currently in Busan on a tourist card, looking for work. I am not doing anything illegal. I am not teaching, I am looking for work however.

I am getting a bit paranoid as I have been staying in the local yeogwan and tonight, the owner made me fill out a registration thingy..............................with my passport number, date of arrival, reason for being here etc.

I am a bit worried that immigration guys are going to show up and just claim that I am an illegal.

Can they do that? Am I just nuts?

What can I do if they decide to try this?

I am getting this really creepy feeling from the owner of the yeogwan, who up until now was very freindly. Shocked

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

if you are here on a tourist visa, and have not overstayed it's time limit, you are not an illegal.

they would have to catch you teaching illegally in order to prosecute you.

don't worry.

I_Am_Wrong · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: whatever

god...don't be so paranoid.

denverdeath · Joined: 21 May 2005 Location: Boo-sahn

Just go to another yuh-gwon...or, put in some fake info. Some places ask you to fill in the registry info and some don't. Maybe the guy had nothing to do and thought he'd do his job properly this evening? I wouldn't be getting paranoid about anything.

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

Thanks.

hellofaniceguy · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: On your computer screen!

Immigration can do whatever they want with you. It's not your country. So of course breaking the law would not sit well with them. But....sometimes no problem at all.

lastat06513 · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:48 am Post subject:

I like posts like this, because it opens a whole can of variables.

One of them is "what if the person coming to Korea on a tourist visa IS IN FACT a tourist wanting to visit Korea"?

I would love to see what would happen if immigration, on the high horse that its on right now, mistakenly arrested a tourist on false pretenses just because they were a foreigner and they had a tourist visa.

I sometimes think this law will crawl up and bite them on their arze.

mj roach · Joined: 16 Mar 2003

s/w- try the backpackers' yogwan down by the port - check "pusanweb" for the address or if you want pm me and i know a no Q's place near downtown. hang in there friend!

mj roach · Joined: 16 Mar 2003

s/w- try the backpackers' yogwan down by the port - check "pusanweb" for the address or if you want pm me - i know a no Q's place near downtown. hang in there friend!

mj roach · Joined: 16 Mar 2003

s/w - pm me for a no Q's place near downtown or try the backpackers' place near the port. hang in there friend!

ladyandthetramp · Joined: 21 Nov 2003

FUBAR · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: The Y.C.

Stay away from this site and most of your paranoia will just vanish.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

It seems my fears were well founded. 3 policemen showed up today asking questions about me. Thanks for the offers of help. I don't know if packing up and moving is such a good idea. It may only raise more suspicions. Shocked

I'm sure this isn't over. I explained to the policemen why I was here and why I have spent so much time here already without a job.

He came back with, "we heard that you are teaching, blah blah blah."

To which I told them that I was certainly not. I am looking for a job, not just any job, but one I can be reasonably happy with.

They were polite and left saying everything is OK, but I doubt it. I'm sure I am being followed now. Confused

Oh well, they can follow me to the PC room, then to the subway, then to whatever hagwan I decide to check out.
then back to another PC room, then to a kimbab restaurant, then to ..... Laughing

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

I'd just be careful if they follow you into a hogwan or adult academy where you're interviewing.

I would check up on one thing, however - a rumour, and so far as I know it's just that, that immi is giving trouble to people applying for an E2 after they've been in the country on a tourist visa for more than 30 days. I got my E2 after being on a tourist visa about 5 weeks, so it's obviously not a hard rule or anything, but it's still worth checking out to be sure.