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UncleAlex
Joined: 04 Apr 2003
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 Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:17 pm Post subject: Watch Your Step! |
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A sign which reads the above should be posted for people who are entering
Korea and have just cleared Immigration at Incheon Airport. I have wiped
out a score of times either inside or outside in this country because of faulty
or decrepit construction. Fortunately, I have never suffered a serious injury.
For all of you here: Keep your head up so you won't ever have to "chin up"  |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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I am very sorry to hear you were injured, and in such randon sort of way. Though I am very happy to hear your school helped you out and helped you get back home.
All you can do now is heal up and return to Korea, to work at your old school or some new school. I recommend you get a letter from the school detailing what happened. This way you can show something to your next school and give this sad story a positive ending. Your commitment got you here and such a letter would help you find a new job. |
The OP should not mention to any future Korean employer of the mishap. It sounds like a negative thing for the previous Korean employer to have put up with(paying for roundtrip airfare and not getting anything in return). If the OP returns my advice would be to not say a word to any potential employer. |
However the employer could easily find out that the OP's been in Korea before and for a very short while (which would make him curious.) Remember you have to submit your passport to Immigration to get your card. If the employer has any contacts there he'd know. Or Immigration might phone the school with questions about the short stay. After all most people don't come to Korea for only 2-3 days. |
So what if they have been in Korea before? I'm sure plenty of stopover tourists or businessmen spend 2-3 days in Korea on a tourist visa. The OP (apparently) wasn't working. The only hitch I can see at immigraton is that a visa paper was issued, but the visa was not issued, since the visa run was never made. I would not explain the whole story to a future employer, but still I think there's really nothing to hide. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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I normally seem to be somewhat superstitious and a proponent of the sky-is-falling mentality. For example, I won't ski as unbeknownst safety issues could occur. Airplanes can be dangerous. I avoid swimming in open ocean waters. This is just a behavioral quirk.
I tend to avoid these potentially hazardous situations. Even hot air balloons aren't 100% safe.
Be careful while you're in Korea. Think twice. The U.S. Armed Forces 'Buddy System' works wonders. Furthermore, alchohol can greatly increase the frequency of such instances. |
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buymybook
Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Location: Telluride
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
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I am very sorry to hear you were injured, and in such randon sort of way. Though I am very happy to hear your school helped you out and helped you get back home.
All you can do now is heal up and return to Korea, to work at your old school or some new school. I recommend you get a letter from the school detailing what happened. This way you can show something to your next school and give this sad story a positive ending. Your commitment got you here and such a letter would help you find a new job. |
The OP should not mention to any future Korean employer of the mishap. It sounds like a negative thing for the previous Korean employer to have put up with(paying for roundtrip airfare and not getting anything in return). If the OP returns my advice would be to not say a word to any potential employer. |
However the employer could easily find out that the OP's been in Korea before and for a very short while (which would make him curious.) Remember you have to submit your passport to Immigration to get your card. If the employer has any contacts there he'd know. Or Immigration might phone the school with questions about the short stay. After all most people don't come to Korea for only 2-3 days. |
How does "easily" fall into this realm? Are you smoking weed? Why would Immigration call the employer? Immigration does not usually by rule call the school. They send a letter by mail stating whether the E-2 application process has been accepted.
There is NO reason to show the school your passport and would not be advised, so how can the school learn about the OP's stay? My current employer knew/knows nothing about the fact that I'm in court and was at the time of hire. Explain to the OP why the employer wasn't called and informed of this fact by Immigration. Wouldn't a court proceeding be an irresistable fact for Immigration to go tattle to the employer before(as you say) a past and simple "2-3 day stay?"
I simply suggested that informing the school of a negative thing might not be the wisest thing. Your paranoia should not be spread to the OP. "You troller!!!"
Sheeeeeeeeeeesh.  |
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margaret
Joined: 14 Oct 2003
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I am very sorry to hear you were injured, and in such randon sort of way. Though I am very happy to hear your school helped you out and helped you get back home.
All you can do now is heal up and return to Korea, to work at your old school or some new school. I recommend you get a letter from the school detailing what happened. This way you can show something to your next school and give this sad story a positive ending. Your commitment got you here and such a letter would help you find a new job. |
The OP should not mention to any future Korean employer of the mishap. It sounds like a negative thing for the previous Korean employer to have put up with(paying for roundtrip airfare and not getting anything in return). If the OP returns my advice would be to not say a word to any potential employer. |
I was also sent home for health reasons. I had a terrible asthma attack that only got worse and I still could barely breathe and couldn't work after a week in the hospital. I told my new boss about it during the interview for my current job. When she asked me why I left after 7 months I told her I got sick. I didn't go into detail.
Margaret |
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