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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:00 am Post subject: Best Bank To Use When Sending Money Home? |
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I just got home from my usual ordeal of wiring money home. It always seems to take 30 minutes or more. This has been the case at 3 different banks that I've used. The latest is KB Bank.
Do other banks do it faster or is it the same marathon process everywhere. I've spent so much time in banks in the past year that I feel like I work in one.  |
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Homer
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| Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:29 am Post subject: |
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Depends I guess.
It takes me all of 10 minutes at my bank....but been going there for years so they know me well.
That can most likely affect the time it takes. |
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Zoobot
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I go to the post office. It's cheaper, and if you remember to bring your receipt from your last visit, it's 15 mins or so. Plus they give me gifts, like a 3-pack of Kleenex, and the male staff are all trying to hook me up with the remittance lady. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| actually in Korea it comes down not just to banks but individual branches and tellers. I would hazard a guess that the downtown branches that are used to dealing with foreign businessmen would be the place to go. I've rarely had a problem with banking in Gwanghwamun. Bumblephuk Gyeonggido is another question entirely. |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Takes literally 5 mins when I go to my bank to send money home.
I just give her the receipt from the last transaction and tell her I want to send the same amount again and I am done.
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vox
Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Location: Jeollabukdo
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| Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: Best Bank To Use When Sending Money Home? |
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| Dev wrote: |
| Do other banks do it faster or is it the same marathon process everywhere. I've spent so much time in banks in the past year that I feel like I work in one. |
My process is probably more weird than it needs to be but it works. I use a very local bank (never thought they'd be cosmo enough to do a lickety-split job but they're fast) but I met the manager on the first day, with a Korean friend, and kept that rapport. I also make sure that every time I go to that bank to wire, I have a good suit on and speak as much polite Korean as I can.
Laugh away. It is truly silly from a Western point of view. I've always found the suit thing silly, actually. But the result is that whenever I come in for a wire transfer, I am instantly ushered to the desk, and one or another senior staff member (not one of the desk clerks) comes over and asks me for the amount and does the whole thing in 5-10 minutes. Oh, and no ID. Just my bankbook. They suggested I keep my first wire transaction slip and show it each time (so the information stays the same and the transaction is faster.)
Holy crap, I think that's service.
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edit: Maybe the local banks try harder..? |
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trinity24651
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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Vox, when I translated the Korean on Babel Fish, it said
"When about about above and above it dawns, it dawns, green onion Rang it dawns" What does it really say? |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Takes me two minutes as I do it w/ my ATM card at KEB bank, 24/7. Just get registered (give them to receiving bank info) only 8000 per wire, too! Now they have a telephone you can buy and you can do it from that 24/7 for 3000 per wire. It's 80,000 for the phone (sky, i think) Also, this is a regular phone that you use like any other. I would have gotten the phone but I have two already... |
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vox
Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Location: Jeollabukdo
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:41 am Post subject: |
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| I'm on my US Windows computer today and the Hangeul isn't coming up but I think I wrote wi-yeo, wi-yeo, paran se-ya (away, away, bluebird?) which is the opening line to a beautiful (but sad) old Korean folk song ("Se-ya, se-ya") Shooing or urging a bird to return to its homeland - a metaphor for Koreans wanting foreign occupiers to return to their homelands (I think - at least that's what my Korean singer friend told me in a drunken confession after our choir sang it.) |
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trinity24651
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Well at least we're referred to as bluebirds...not vultures!! |
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buymybook
Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Location: Telluride
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| vox wrote: |
| I'm on my US Windows computer today and the Hangeul isn't coming up but I think I wrote wi-yeo, wi-yeo, paran se-ya (away, away, bluebird?) which is the opening line to a beautiful (but sad) old Korean folk song ("Se-ya, se-ya") Shooing or urging a bird to return to its homeland - a metaphor for Koreans wanting foreign occupiers to return to their homelands (I think - at least that's what my Korean singer friend told me in a drunken confession after our choir sang it.) |
Must have been what a past employer who fired me illegally was saying. My students were told to tell me to go home when I was conducting my 1 man demonstrations.
Instead, I stayed and won in court and am now receiving my money. Almost 50% last week and hopefully 1 million Won monthly payments for 7 + months. 
Oh, I now have money to send home too.  |
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