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Cojax90
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 Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 3:10 am Post subject: Returning to Korea as tourist after abandoning phone contrac |
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Last year when I finished a two year employment contract I abandoned my phone contract after two of its three years and did not pay to finish or cancel it. Just emptied my korean bank account and left the phone behind. I want to return now for a visit under a tourist visa but wonder if there's an outstanding bill immigration would know about and give me a hassle for? Serious answers please. Thanks.
Also I've searched for a post about the same situation but couldn't find one. If it's been talked about, please feel free to copy and past a clear answer from it. |
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toonchoon
Joined: 06 Feb 2009
Location: Gangnam
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You don't deserve an answer. It's people like you that make it harder for the rest of us to get contracts, loans, etc.
Hope Kimmi knows about it, and quarantines you at ICN  |
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earthquakez
Joined: 10 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 4:40 am Post subject: Re: Returning to Korea as tourist after abandoning phone con |
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| Cojax90 wrote: |
Last year when I finished a two year employment contract I abandoned my phone contract after two of its three years and did not pay to finish or cancel it. Just emptied my korean bank account and left the phone behind. I want to return now for a visit under a tourist visa but wonder if there's an outstanding bill immigration would know about and give me a hassle for? Serious answers please. Thanks.
Also I've searched for a post about the same situation but couldn't find one. If it's been talked about, please feel free to copy and past a clear answer from it. |
Given every apartment I lived at in Korea had literally hundreds of bills delivered to people who had left the apartments without a forwarding address to the point where the apartment managers had special mailboxes for those continual stacks of undeliverable phone and other bills, I can't see why you should be a particular concern.
If Korean Immigration even starts concerning itself with such trivia as unpaid phone bills by foreigners, I hope they think to sign a reciprocal agreement with the UK/Australia/Canada/New Zealand so that all the Korean phone bill, housing rent and car loan dodgers can also be dealt with by our countries.
I'd say from what I've personally seen and heard that Koreans and Chinese, especially students, are among the biggest bill dodgers in the UK.
Your unpaid phone bill will simply mean a bad reference on your credit record and other Korean phone providers will most likely have been given your details.
While I don't encourage anybody not to pay their bills, I find it a joke that Asian countries such as Korea act all high and mighty about terrible foreigners not paying their bills when their own countries' citizens do the same abroad and quite possibly in higher numbers given the easier time they have of obtaining credit and other privileges. |
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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| Theft is theft. But I'm sure the phone company deleted your bill and forgot all about it because you are such a nice guy. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:52 am Post subject: Re: Returning to Korea as tourist after abandoning phone con |
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| I find it a joke that Asian countries such as Korea act all high and mighty about terrible foreigners not paying their bills |
Just wondering, who's acting all high and mighty? Korean individuals? Companies? Immigration?
Companies just want the money. I don't see them putting out ads in foreign papers telling temporary workers in Korean to pay their bills. |
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mr_thehorse
Joined: 27 Aug 2013
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:13 am Post subject: Re: Returning to Korea as tourist after abandoning phone con |
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| earthquakez wrote: |
| I find it a joke that Asian countries such as Korea act all high and mighty about terrible foreigners not paying their bills |
Just wondering, who's acting all high and mighty? Korean individuals? Companies? Immigration?
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nobody except him. |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:22 am Post subject: |
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| Some of you live in a world full of anger and resentment. It's quite sad really. |
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earthquakez
Joined: 10 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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Do us all a favour luv and stop attaching yourself to posts instead of participating in real discussions. Resentful, angry trolls are sad.
Yeah, yeah we get that your F Visa gives you a sense of entitlement. I'm glad for you that you have one as I recall in one of your posts you stated "I have a F visa". With the inability to understand child-level English in putting 'a' instead of 'an' no wonder you can't compete with E-2 visa holders in Korea.  |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| earthquakez wrote: |
Do us all a favour luv and stop attaching yourself to posts instead of participating in real discussions. Resentful, angry trolls are sad.
Yeah, yeah we get that your F Visa gives you a sense of entitlement. I'm glad for you that you have one as I recall in one of your posts you stated "I have a F visa". With the inability to understand child-level English in putting 'a' instead of 'an' no wonder you can't compete with E-2 visa holders in Korea. |
This is a real discussion?
OP simply asked if he would have issues coming to visit Korea because he has an unpaid phone bill.
Then you spin it to be about Koreans and Chinese not paying their bills in the UK? And how Korean immigration should sign a recirocal agreement with the UK/Australia/Canada/New Zealand so that all the Korean phone bill, housing rent and car loan dodgers can also be dealt with by our countries.
Right...this isn't the rantings of a bitter, unstable person.
If this is a real discussion, why aren't you answering jvalmer's question?
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| Just wondering, who's acting all high and mighty? Korean individuals? Companies? Immigration? |
Let's get a real discussion going. Who's acting high and mighty about foreigners not paying their bills?
Or are we just making up issues again in our head? |
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earthquakez
Joined: 10 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| Ooooh, I love it when you get all hot and bothered. But after all, you ARE on 'a F Visa'. |
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Koharski
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Seriously, grow up or find another cafe. We do not want this kind of garbage here.
Koharski |
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FriendlyDaegu
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| Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:52 am Post subject: |
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| earthquakez wrote: |
Do us all a favour luv and stop attaching yourself to posts instead of participating in real discussions. Resentful, angry trolls are sad.
Yeah, yeah we get that your F Visa gives you a sense of entitlement. I'm glad for you that you have one as I recall in one of your posts you stated "I have a F visa". With the inability to understand child-level English in putting 'a' instead of 'an' no wonder you can't compete with E-2 visa holders in Korea. |
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| Ooooh, I love it when you get all hot and bothered. But after all, you ARE on 'a F Visa'. |
Give it a rest.. you have 10 mistakes just on this page.
OP, if you do get into the country, I'd go in to SK or whoever and pay the bill. Can't fault you too much since I might've done the same 20 years ago, but you'll feel better about yourself going forward if you pay what you owe. |
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Cojax90
Joined: 06 Jan 2013
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| Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| Well that was interesting. But I didn't ask for self righteous opinions of right and wrong. Just if anyone actually knew if there'd be tourist entrance visa stamp complications or not. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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| FriendlyDaegu wrote: |
| earthquakez wrote: |
Do us all a favour luv and stop attaching yourself to posts instead of participating in real discussions. Resentful, angry trolls are sad.
Yeah, yeah we get that your F Visa gives you a sense of entitlement. I'm glad for you that you have one as I recall in one of your posts you stated "I have a F visa". With the inability to understand child-level English in putting 'a' instead of 'an' no wonder you can't compete with E-2 visa holders in Korea. |
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| Ooooh, I love it when you get all hot and bothered. But after all, you ARE on 'a F Visa'. |
Give it a rest.. you have 10 mistakes just on this page.
OP, if you do get into the country, I'd go in to SK or whoever and pay the bill. Can't fault you too much since I might've done the same 20 years ago, but you'll feel better about yourself going forward if you pay what you owe. |
This is sound advice, except it's not like they make it easy to pay a phone bill in Korea. More than likely if he goes to an SK branch he's going to be told that he can only pay on the second Saturday of the month and has to go to the other SK branch in order to do so. Chances are that they won't even be able to track down his information, particularly if he no longer has his Korean ID.
OP: you're fine. The worst this can do is affect your (Korean) credit. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 9:09 pm Post subject: Re: Returning to Korea as tourist after abandoning phone con |
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| Cojax90 wrote: |
Last year when I finished a two year employment contract I abandoned my phone contract after two of its three years and did not pay to finish or cancel it. Just emptied my korean bank account and left the phone behind. I want to return now for a visit under a tourist visa but wonder if there's an outstanding bill immigration would know about and give me a hassle for? Serious answers please. Thanks.
Also I've searched for a post about the same situation but couldn't find one. If it's been talked about, please feel free to copy and past a clear answer from it. |
And why couldn't you pay off your contract? I just heard foreigners can no longer get contracts due to folks doing this. I don't have one. I go month-to-month since I wasn't sure how long I wanted to stay in Korea. That said, I doubt you would have a problem. I keep getting a bill in my box at home for some unpaid bill that a Korean needs to pay. |
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