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stevieg4ever · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Location: London, England

At this stage I am simply debating with someone who doesn't know how to read and is simply making things up as he goes along.

I don't want to restate everything with crayons because that is basically what I have to do on account of your last post so just a simple question, who is using the family brain? Come back when its your turn again and you learn how to read.

Ahh i see another apologist with corperate 'connections' haha Don't give me that bull. What a kn0b you are.

Junior · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: the eye

They should have to get apostilled & notarised national criminal record checks before they are allowed to study in the Philippines.

crossmr · Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul

BoholDiver · Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Location: Canada

This is victim blaming. The money the parents paid was sufficient to cove the cost of the visa. This is a greedy wonjang problem. Seem familiar to anyone?

NohopeSeriously · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:00 pm Post subject:

Incompetent South Korean government is so incompetent. The South Korean government should prevent their citizens (those poor kids) to land in the Philippines in the first place.

Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

I am actually curious whether they are the students I meet on the plane going over. There was a large group going to study for 2 months and they seemed to be from Seoul.

One or two of the kids english was pretty good.

BoholDiver · Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Location: Canada

That's a bit harsh. It is not their job to police for othe countries. Philippines Immigration should be asking more questions upon arrival and checking return tickets and addresses while staying in PI.

You get 21 days upon arrival in PI. These students clearly sayed longer than that. Solution? Stop issuing visa extensions in country for people who simply pay a small fee. Fine the heck out of them when they leave.

chellovek · Joined: 29 Feb 2008

Holy crap my gf was working at one of those places with some students. I haven't heard from her since just before the date of that article, maybe she was arrested Shocked

WadRUG'naDoo · Joined: 15 Jun 2010 Location: Shanghai

I think it's the Philippines' fault. If they didn't exist, there would be no problem.

Sound familiar?

Yaya · Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul

Steelrails · Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Location: Earth, Solar System

So the question is, is there some way we can make money off of this?

BoholDiver · Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Location: Canada

Most of them? I doubt that.

A large number maybe, but much less than 50%.

Yaya · Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul

This article is from 2007 and so the number of Koreans in the Phils has skyrocketed and so has the probably the number of illegals.

BI: 240,000 Koreans in RP, but only one-sixth documented

By EDU PUNAY
The Philippine Star

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said Sunday there are some 240,000 South Korean nationals currently staying in the Philippines � but only a sixth of them have been properly documented.

BI intelligence chief Attorney Faizal Hussin revealed to The STAR that based on the monitoring of their agents, over 200,000 Koreans do not have the necessary travel and immigration papers. Half of them have pending applications with the bureau while the rest are completely unregistered.

"In our records, only 40,000 Koreans have visas and permits and around 90,000 have pending applications. Now the others are illegal aliens. They are the usual tourists who extend their stay here without even bothering to register with the bureau," explained Hussin.

BI records showed some 11,000 Koreans are presently holding working visas and special work permits while 29,000 have been issued with special study permits and student visas.

The BI official stressed this number of undocumented Korean nationals could even be much lower than the actual figure, considering the continuous influx of Koreans in the country. The bureau has earlier estimated some 600,000 of them arrive here every year.

"I think it's becoming more obvious now that many Koreans are staying here. You can see them almost everywhere. The public knows about this. And we in the bureau are just doing our job of hunting down the illegal aliens," he explained.

Hussin said their intelligence information showed most of these illegal Koreans are involved in retail businesses in the country's economic centers like Baguio, Manila, Makati, Angeles, Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu and even Boracay.

The immigration official also revealed most Koreans in the country prefer to stay here "primarily because of our lower cost of living and education as compared to their country."

Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan earlier ordered a crackdown on undocumented Koreans who are engaged in illegal retail trade in urban areas across the country.

The BI chief said he would meet with local government officials and seek the regulation of release of permits to businesses in the country owned by foreign nationals.

He lamented how the growing number of foreign nationals who are working in several businesses without the necessary work permit from the bureau has become a "serious and big problem."

Libanan explained that foreign nationals who put up businesses here usually bring with them other aliens as workers without securing necessary work permits from government.

The BI chief was also particularly worried of the effects of proliferation of illegal businesses owned by foreigners on local traders, citing "unfair competition."

Under the country's retail trade liberalization law, no foreigner would be allowed to engage in retail trade unless he coughs up a minimum capital of $2.5 million.