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Yaya
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Location: Seoul
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I would say there are fewer expat losers and weirdos in Korea than in the old days, but then again, the number of native English speakers who come to Korea to teach English has grown exponentially so I'm thinking that more will slip through the cracks.
To Korea's small credit, it's way better than Southeast Asia. |
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alongway
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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Overheard at the Canadian embassy this morning:
Citizen: I'm here to *unintelligible* criminal record check *unintelligible* (couldn't catch if he was picking up or somehow doing one, or getting it stamped or what)
Embassy staff: *unintelligible*
Citizen: What? Why do you need my passport? why do you need to see my number? (very indignant tone) |
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detonate
Joined: 16 Dec 2011
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Show an ID at an embassy?
L'horreur! |
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alongway
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| detonate wrote: |
Show an ID at an embassy?
L'horreur! |
His tone gave me the impression that he was one of the tinfoil hat wearing nutters that really enjoyed those "how to talk to cops" lessons and probably carried around a little print out of his "rights" to stick in the face of anyone who questioned him. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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Its part of the reason I prefer to live in Korea. Koreans often have a refreshing innocence and honesty by comparison. |
On a personal level, you're right.
But just look on a business level, the corruption index is way up there. |
31/180 isn't bad at all. That puts it comfortably into the top 20% along with the U.S which is at 18/180.
http://www.worldaudit.org/corruption.htm |
It kind of makes me think of life in the West back in the late 50's or something.
But according to your link:
So Korea's only 2 points up from Rwanda? and right below Poland? Hmmm.
Not so sure that's a good thing.
But Korea is miles better than most of East Asia (except for Japan) and only slightly worse than Taiwan. |
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