Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Tremac]

Hey, just wondering if you guys know anything about foreigners joining the ROK army.

I called the Korean Embassy in Canada and they told me if I immigrate and become a Korean citizen, I'll be required for 2 years service.

However, I read elsewhere that only full blooded Koreans are accepted for the minimum 2 year service.

Does anyone know anyone who joined? Or can anyone give me some information on Immigrating please?

[Bulsajo]

So, how's Vedder X-ing these days? River still flood every Xmas?

We might as well talk about where you're from, because there's nothing else seriously worth discussing in your post...

have you tried here?
http://www.recruiting.forces.gc.ca/engraph/howtojoin/eligibility_e.aspx

or checked the classifieds here?
http://www.sofmag.com/home.do

But now that you have our attention, I suppose you could tell us why you are interested in joining the ROK Army?
Make a difference?
Be all you can be?
In Front of Them All?

[Paddycakes]

What's the matter, the Canadian Forces wouldn't take you, tabernack...

[mindmetoo]

Until recently, half koreans were banned from service. See full blooded Koreans can't be trusted to be civil to mixed Koreans in the barracks.

But I believe they've decided young Koreans are civil and worldly enough these days to accept mixed Koreans into their barracks.

Huzzah.

[Bulsajo]

Is it a joke?
World class naïveté?
A serious disconnect with reality?

[Wrench]

[Tremac]

I don't see why everyone here is so offended. Korean training is supposed to be really intense. I read on CNN that atleast 10% of the new recruits kill themselves rather than stay in the army.

In the Canadian army, I'd either sit around twiddling my thumbs all day or take fire from Afghan terrorists.

So getting back to my question, can anyone give me some information on immigrating to Korea please?

[Bulsajo]

I'm always a sucker for biting the hook, but anyway:

Go Rambo go!

Offended?
No.

Flabbergasted at your ignorance?
Yes.

What exactly do you see yourself doing in the ROK army?
Commando missions?
Sneaking into KJI's harem and 'interrogating' a few of them?

Anyway you wanted some info:

How is your Korean?
It's a citizenship requirement.
How many years have you lived in Korea?
Not a requirement but I'm sure it will come up in the interview, which I imagine will go something like this:

"Hey foreigner, you want to become a Korean citizen?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"To join the ROK Army."
They'll probably throw the straightjacket on you at that point, or maybe just laugh you out of the room.

I have friends and relatives (by marriage) who have served in the ROK army (as I'm sure a lot of us on this forum do), and you have to be certifiably insane to want to join.
Even if it were possible.

Would you spend the next 5-10 years of your life trying to get citizenship in order to do a 2 year stint in a conscript Army? Get real.

The Korean embassy might have been too polite to say
"grab a clue you crazy jackass"
but lucky for you we're not so diplomatic around here.

Or troll somewhere else (probably the more appropriate response).

[bellum99]

To become a Korean you have to take the immigration exam and it is very hard. Koreans couldn't pass it without serious study. You will not be accepted into the military. This seems like a very weird thing to ask when you could just join the Canadian army, which I was a member of for a short time.
The American Marines will accept you and then you can apply for citizenship in the Marines if you really want to be a part of a fighting armed forces unit. The Korean armed forces don't actually do any fighting you know...they just walk next to a long fence and look at North Koreans in the glasses.

[jinju]

Immigrating to Korea?

Find a girl, marry her, become a permanent citizen, get fluent in Koreana nd become an expert on Korea culture/history, pass a hard test and become a Korean. You wouldnt even be accepted into the army but if you were you wouldnt learn anything, tough guy. Well maybe how to get beaten on by your elders and how to drink soju and clean toilets.

[Tremac]

hmm.. Any idea as to why immigration is so difficult?

I did the Canadian test and passed, but we let anyone in here

I read that the more military-oriented countries were allowing non-citizens into their army and was hoping for some kind of luck, but I guess not today.

[Bulsajo]

What do you know about Korea, besides the fact that the Army is tough?
(if you knew more about Korea and Koreans then you might have a clue why immigration is difficult).

And so you've 'taken the test' for the Canadian Armed Forces.
That's the easy part.
How do you even know you can get through basic if you've never done it?
Physically you may be fine but this whole thread would leave anyone wondering whether mentally you would be suitable for the RCA...

If you want a rigorous regimen, go here:

http://www.foreignlegionlife.com/

I hear they'll take anyone, including delusional Canadians.

[caniff]

French Foreign Legion, perhaps?

[Porter_Goss]

[Wrench]

The American armed forces recruit Canadian soldiers all the time. Americans have a profesional army and most profesional armies hire Mercenaries.