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willardmusa
Joined: 28 May 2006
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 Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: Do your fellow teacher a favor at immigration office and . . |
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Hotpants
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:21 am Post subject: |
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| You'll not only make someone's day |
Admittedly, it may take a bit more than speeding up waiting in a line to make my day...
Personally, I'm quite happy to wait at immi (within reason). But, you sure do sound like one generous soul. Perhaps you could also buy multiple subway tickets and hand them out to foreigners during rush hour. You could also carry an extra umbrella with you when you go out. Why not pick up an extra pack of pickled radish at the gimbap shop... Then, who knows, you could REALLY make someone's day!
(Sorry, I couldn't resist this one - the post was so funny and I had an idle 10 mins!) |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:09 am Post subject: |
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| Hotpants wrote: |
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| You'll not only make someone's day |
Admittedly, it may take a bit more than speeding up waiting in a line to make my day...
Personally, I'm quite happy to wait at immi (within reason). But, you sure do sound like one generous soul. Perhaps you could also buy multiple subway tickets and hand them out to foreigners during rush hour. You could also carry an extra umbrella with you when you go out. Why not pick up an extra pack of pickled radish at the gimbap shop... Then, who knows, you could REALLY make someone's day!
(Sorry, I couldn't resist this one - the post was so funny and I had an idle 10 mins!) |
Actually, I happened to run into a former prominent poster on this board last time I was at Immigration and he was kind enough to hand me an earlier ticket, as he had taken two. |
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Apple Scruff
Joined: 29 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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Stay away from me with your dirty, ill-gotten number, honky.  |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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So now I have to wait behind both you and your new found rentboy.
Goddamn hippy. |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: Do your fellow teacher a favor at immigration office and |
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| willardmusa wrote: |
Whenever I am at the immigration office, when I pick up "my number" from the number dispenser thing, I just go ahead and pick up another one. I put both in my pocket. (For example, today I had #85 and #86).
Then, while waiting to be served, I'm sure to see another English teacher come in and pick up their number . . . and it is like 20 numbers later at that point. I go over to them and give them the extra number I got earlier - - - and it makes their day, saving them a half hour or more of waiting.
Gave #86 to a wide-eyed newbie American, when he would have gotten #103.
You'll not only make someone's day, but you'll also pass your wait time a lot more interestingly, watching out for the recipient of your random act of kindness!
Oh, but do be discreet when you give them the number; I always give it to the next "fellow English teacher" coming in. I've even waited a few minutes at the front door before leaving if I still have the extra number (and it's still good) to pass it to someone just arriving.
This idea just sort of happened naturally when once I took a number and then found somebody had left a number on a writing table that was lower than mine. So, I gave my higher number to another teacher just coming in a half hour later and used the lower number myself.
As a post-script: "In the old days . . . ." There used to be these professional line waiters in Korea! Yeah, there were these aujummas who would go early to government offices, get a number, then sell it to someone coming along later. They'd do this all day and make pretty good money. The offices tolerated them because they were poor and had no other income (similar to the way the city tolerates the street vendors still nowadays even though they clog the limited sidewalk space - - they've got no other way of making a living.) But, all good things must come to an end and eventually professional line waiters were banned. |
I think it is a lovely idea. I am a firm advocate for random acts of kindness.
Too many people are only out for themselves these days!!
ilovebdt |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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Its not kindness at all.
You're letting someone jump in front of other people.Yr holding up peoples day with yr hippy nonsense. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I would....if I ever had to go to immigration again for anything while in Korea. Which I dont. So I wont. |
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charlieDD
Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:16 am Post subject: Hmmm . . . |
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I thought I was the only one who did that. Really. I have done the exact same thing. Last month was over there and picked up a ticket about 30 minutes after I got my own. Fifteen minutes later I was finished with my visit and leaving when I gave it to a Vietnamese blue uniformed worker who I could tell was in a world of hurry. He had his Korean factory boss man breathing down his neck and cursing in Korean. Kid was probably getting docked pay to go take care of some immigration thing that his company screwed up in the first place.
Here's my take on it: There are enough things stacked against us foreign workers, including English teachers, here in Korea and in favor of the Koreans. If I can stack one in our favor from time to time, . . . .
Completely understand the other point of view, but I'll go with this one. |
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jellobean
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:50 am Post subject: |
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| For the number of Koreans and people with Koreans that I've seen just walk in and walk up to a desk without a number, grabbing an extra one for another foreigner isn't what is making the wait so long... |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| How many Koreans are waiting in line at Immigration? What are they doing there? |
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