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[Hotpants]

Can anyone help?

I'm trying to sign up on a Korean website, but keep failing because I'm not entering the correct number in the field for 'Joo Min/Meen Dong Rok Bun Ho'. I was guessing it was my alien registration number. But, doesn't seem so.

[bobbyhanlon]

its impossible, i'm afraid. 주민 is citizen, and since we are not, we cannot sign up. some sites are waygook-in friendly but many are not. you'll have to get a korean friend to sign up for you.

[Hotpants]

Aaaahhhh. Okay, now I understand. Thank you.

[Smee]

No Kart Rider






























and not much of anything else.

[tomato]

They don't care, either.
I sent a message to the webmaster of a Korean forum, asking if there was any way I could get in.
He never wrote back.

There was a petition going around against that sort of thing.
I wish I could give you the link.

[Smee]

Yeah I can't find the sticky. I guess the conclusion of that thread was that it would cost too much time to redesign the sites to allow foreigners' IDs to work. I think the problem is that we have one extra digit. And since we're a small percentage of the population, and since a small percentage of us would actually use the sites, there's no incentive. Out of curiousity, why don't they just redesign our ARC cards to give us the proper amount of numbers?

[skdragon]

My ARC number used to work until the government changed the numbers. It keeps freaking out the Koreans who need to print 'official' documents for me, as I often have to give the old number as well as the current one if I want all the information pertaining to me (such as docs from the tax office and so on). The juminbonho is a number that Koreans get for life, and it never changes so they really are surprised when I tell them I have two of these citizen numbers!!!