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StephannieK · Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Location: Gyeongbuk-do

Now that the 'cat is coming out of the bag' we'll soon see how the dust settles in the ROK.

Of those who are now going through the process ....

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

I have submitted the required documents more times than I care to count over the last 7 years. They have been checked, verified, certified, notarized, sealed, and sent as official documents.

In any other country and you only have to do this ONCE. Here I have had to do it more times than I can count.

AND they just get stupider and stupider. I can't be bothered arsing around with them anymore.

I have no faith in the intelligence or efficiency of Korean officialdom.

I'm packing my bags.

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Zyzyfer · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:42 am Post subject:

I'd be willing to go through with it *once* provided I don't have to run back to my home country for the CRC/Apostille issue and wait X number of months for that to go through. If I have to go back home that long, might as well just stay there or go somewhere more suitable.

Hank the Iconoclast · Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Location: Busan

I'm gone.

smilesalot · Joined: 24 Nov 2007

So gone, I can't wait to be out of here, only 5 months left!

garykasparov · Joined: 27 May 2007

Probably going to Taiwan or Singapore. I can't go to Russia or Putin will throw me in jail.

articulate_ink · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 2:41 am Post subject:

What is the difference between Preparing to leave (just in case) and the third one, Leaving for friendlier places? Is it like thinking about leaving versus definitely leaving? Just curious.

I'm in the latter category, as if that needed pointing out again. No later than next summer, when my visa expires. Preferably much sooner.

Cliffhanger · Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Location: Anyang

I'm gone. I'll probably go to Taiwan. In a way I'm kinda glad this happened because I probably would have stayed, but I know I didn't really want to stay here. This was the last straw. Only two months to go...

mehmeh · Joined: 23 May 2007 Location: South, South Korea

Where's the "I'll throw the dog a bone while I laugh all the way to the bank" option? That's got my vote.

So what...I got to go back home and jump through a few hoops? It seems to me that they're not asking for anything more than a similar job back in our home countries would ask for. Even preschool/daycare workers have to go through this c r a p in most states. The apostillization is the only thing I can see that would be above and beyond standard western procedures and it really isn't that painful of a process.

normalcyispasse · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:20 am Post subject:

I'm out.

Unless some school offers me at least 3.5 and DAMN nice accomodations for my wife and myself, I'm gone.

agentX · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Location: Jeolla province

I looked over the new rules and changes. Since I'm already here, I won't have to deal with this until October. So it's only the renewal parts that I'm concerned with. Which from what was translated, seems to be fairly simple.
Visa runs to Japan/China/Whatever they meant by 3rd party countries is still around, and since I work at a PS, no criminal check.
It's much too early to say whether I'd stay or go at this point.
But I won't base my decision on the E2 visa rule changes.

Funny story: the E2 rule changes reminds me of a blog post from Taiwan I read on a Footprints-associated blog. The English teacher in question was stopped and arrested for DUI. It was a justified DUI, since he was drunk and driving. Under the old rule, there was no arrest (I think). But the day he was arrested, the rule/law in question was changed to include an arrest. Anyway, the teacher was stressed about the upcoming trial for many weeks, and even more stressed from what he learned about the Taiwanese legal system.
So, instead of running (which was his lawyer's advice), he decided to report to the courthouse for his trial. He got there. No trial. Huh? After speaking to some Taiwanese friends and the clerk at the court, it seems the law was canceled because of too many complaints. He stressed out for nothing.

Point is, if I plan my course of action based upon how the rules are now, b y the time I'm ready to act on it, the rules will probably be different. This is, what? The 10th version of the rules changes we've seen on this board? Now watch; by next week, the MOJ will post something different. Who knows, maybe they'll require us to get teardrop tattoos next to our eyes. Or we'll all have to wear red bandannas (ah, 1996 all over again).

babtangee · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:54 am Post subject:

fruitcake · Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Location: shinchon

nautilus · Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

There is no such thing as a concrete decision with Koreans. Everything can easily be changed to suit or inconvenience the person, usually at the last minute.

I have no faith that these new changes will be final.

They will simply turn round and hit us with some new lunacy after a few months. Because this is the way its been here for the past 4 years. An unending trail of silly surprises.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003