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what is going on with this immigration crackdown??
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junkmail



Joined: 08 Jan 2005

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:50 am    Post subject: Re: Clampdown Reply with quote

Cohiba wrote:
Korean Immigration couldn't catch the clap in a
South African brothel.

Most immigration don't care on a personal level, but that said they will act on information that's brought to them. There's a lot of people giving each other up.

Let's be careful out there.
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NearlyKorean



Joined: 15 Mar 2003
Location: Phoenix, AZ

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lawyertood wrote:
I'm just waiting to hear if immigration busts a certain poster who advertised looking for a roommate on the Buy/Sell/Trade Forum--not smart what he put in the ad IMO.


I was wondering about that, too....
He/She/It doesn't sound like the sharpest tool in the shed.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lets say immigration busts an agency and that agency gives them all kinds of info on me. what can immigration do about it now if i worked illegally several months ago? (which i would never do of course because it is illegal). Are they looking for those who are working now? or would they come after those who havent done it in a while, butdid do it say... a few months ago?

any more news on the crackdown? are they busting people out there? i havent heard much. is there any rhyme or reason to the heat being turned up right now? how hot is it?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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any more news on the crackdown? are they busting people out there? i havent heard much. is there any rhyme or reason to the heat being turned up right now? how hot is it?


1- It is still going on.

2- they are busting people and it is normal we do not hear about it constantly.

3- The reason for the crackdown seems to have been government pressure because of the report on illegal teachers. The problem of illegal teachers was portrayed badly in the media but it remains a real and bad problem that needs to be adressed. This is what immigration is doing, addressing the issue.
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Joined: 01 Feb 2005

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:42 pm    Post subject: WTF Reply with quote

hellofaniceguy wrote:
You "teachers' doing privates illegally....why come to another country and break the law? Is it so difficult for you to get a visa? No degree? You planning to continue to go through life screwing over others and skirting the law whenever...
I would never go to another country and knowingly break the law. No matter how minor it may seem to me.
Immigration problems within the ESL industry exists partly because of illegal foreign teachers.
When I hear or see a FT teaching illegally...I have absolutely qualms about turning them in. None at all!
I think all you legal teachers should be doing the same...let's clean up this mess and get the heat off.
Those of you who see wrong and do nothing are just as guilty as the person breaking the law.
I just don't get it...maybe I'm just a dumb SOB...but it is NOT your country!?! Why break the law?



I wasn't going to reply to this, but this person is just so STUPID:

1/ "why come to another country and break the law?"
Duh, I tried teaching English privates in the US but it meant
I would have had to move down south. So I quit.

2/ "Is it so difficult for you to get a visa?"
Duh, I have a mastercard.

3/ "No degree?"
Duh, I have a degree.

4/ "You planning to continue to go through life screwing over others"
Duh, I'd like to know who I am screwing over. My kids love me.
The mothers love me. Everyone love me! (I'm Raymond)

5/ "I think all you legal teachers should be doing the same...
let's clean up this mess and get the heat off."
Duh, I think we need to pack losers like this into a rubber
plane and then straight into a rubber room where ever he/she comes
from.

6/ "Those of you who see wrong and do nothing are just as guilty
as the person breaking the law."
Duh, didn't you see the last episode of Seinfeld! This is true!!!

7/ "I just don't get it...maybe I'm just a dumb SOB"
Duh, I'm sure there are a great many things you don't get. And yes,
you are.

8/ "but it is NOT your country!?! Why break the law?"
Duh, this one I really don't get. How are these two things related?
So if Korean criminals break laws in Korea and US criminals break
laws in the US, everthing will be in perfect harmony???


I'm taking the day off. This guy has fried my brain. Confused
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SweetBear



Joined: 18 May 2003

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I find it more unfortunate that the " law" in this country seems to be regarded by many Koreans that I have met as " just a guideline" for them to behave. To quote a Korean friend " we know it's wrong but we still do it anyway" when refering to running red lights and the fact that a foreigner got killed in the process. Remember it's okay for Koreans to break the law here, they can often buy their way out anyway. I have little respect for the rights and wrongs of this situation. Maybe the government should focus on crackdowns against the corruption and bribery that takes place every day here by Koreans. Bring on Mr. Real... Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Homer wrote:
3- The reason for the crackdown seems to have been government pressure because of the report on illegal teachers. The problem of illegal teachers was portrayed badly in the media but it remains a real and bad problem that needs to be adressed. This is what immigration is doing, addressing the issue.

Yes it is illegal, but the VISA system is flawed and needs to be changed so that teachers are not endentured to their employer. The Japanese system, while not perfect, is infinitely better than the Korean one.

Immigration is not addressing the illegals situation, they are addressing a bad PR situation.
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Joined: 22 May 2005

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SuperHero wrote:
Homer wrote:
3- The reason for the crackdown seems to have been government pressure because of the report on illegal teachers. The problem of illegal teachers was portrayed badly in the media but it remains a real and bad problem that needs to be adressed. This is what immigration is doing, addressing the issue.

Yes it is illegal, but the VISA system is flawed and needs to be changed so that teachers are not endentured to their employer. The Japanese system, while not perfect, is infinitely better than the Korean one.

Immigration is not addressing the illegals situation, they are addressing a bad PR situation.


quite right, superhero, but i am still more than a little befuddled as to HOW doing a sweep of star tower in kangnam and busting a posse of well heeled salarymen's early morning english teachers helps with the "bad PR situation".

but then again trying to guess the logic behind the korean government "system" will result in nothing more than a migraine.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SuperHero wrote:
Homer wrote:
3- The reason for the crackdown seems to have been government pressure because of the report on illegal teachers. The problem of illegal teachers was portrayed badly in the media but it remains a real and bad problem that needs to be adressed. This is what immigration is doing, addressing the issue.



Immigration is not addressing the illegals situation, they are addressing a bad PR situation.


quite right, superhero, but i am still more than a little befuddled as to HOW doing a sweep of star tower in kangnam and busting a posse of well heeled salarymen's early morning english teachers helps with the "bad PR situation".

but then again trying to guess the logic behind the korean government "system" will result in nothing more than a migraine.
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Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fancypants wrote:
SuperHero wrote:
Homer wrote:
3- The reason for the crackdown seems to have been government pressure because of the report on illegal teachers. The problem of illegal teachers was portrayed badly in the media but it remains a real and bad problem that needs to be adressed. This is what immigration is doing, addressing the issue.



Immigration is not addressing the illegals situation, they are addressing a bad PR situation.


quite right, superhero, but i am still more than a little befuddled as to HOW doing a sweep of star tower in kangnam and busting a posse of well heeled salarymen's early morning english teachers helps with the "bad PR situation".


Because they have quotas to meet on this one, before they release the crackdown results to the press. Cracking down on the agencies that recruit for privates and the teachers that they enlist is a great way to get those numbers en masse, because it requires less rocks for them to look under. This whole thing will be officially winding down when they release the overall numbers to the press, like in every past crackdown that they've ever done in every other illegal aspect of Korean society that received bad press. Rest assured that no less than 10 teachers here will start threads with a link to the article on the crackdown results, as soon as it hits the net. Until that time, sit on your hands and wait.
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just because



Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964

PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you are working with an agency at the moment you are an idiot....quit, trust me there will be a job for you there when this all winds down...probably by end of August which is the end of the summer camp season when plenty will be caught and quotas met...the government wanted the quotas met by the end of the summer

As Chronic said quotas have to be meet...nothing has changed, just that immigration have to make numbers and this is the easiest way to do it....

BTW...privates are illegal, don't do them....of course Wink
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