Korean Job Discussion Forums

flummuxt · Joined: 15 Mar 2007

Why exactly to Korean e-mail services block e-mails from non-Korean accounts?

Do they want to discourage Koreans from communicating with non-Koreans?

This would be pretty ironic considering all the trouble and expense Koreans are going through to learn English. But if most Koreans try e-mailing a person from an English speaking country, they get ... nothing. And vice versa. No failure notice. Nothing.

The message this sends to Koreans, especially students, it seems to me, is it's OK to use your English in a school setting or with other Koreans, but don't use your English to communicate with foreigners.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I got in trouble last week because of this. I sent my boss an e-mail (he's on yahoo.co.kr) and it bounced back to me. Unfortunately for him, I was asking for a day off, and I took his silence to be tacit approval.

Julius · Joined: 27 Jul 2006

Its an old ajosshi trick.

Its designed to prevent korean women from communicating and forming relationships with foreigners.

Don't ask for emails. just get phone numbers.

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

Is this true? I had a failed email delivery earlier this weeK when replying to someone. I use hotmail, and now that I think about it this has only happened when answering a Korean email account.

WTF?

agentX · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Location: Jeolla province

That's slightly inaccurate.
The e-mail service called hanmail.net is incompatible with Microsoft's Hotmail.
http://wiki.galbijim.com/Hanmail

As to why that is, I have no clue. Perhaps it's a Protocol level incompatibility.
But, you'd figure this would be fixed by now. One of my co-teachers told me of the workaround for this; they all have non-hanmail accounts. I've never heard of a problem with Naver e-mail, but perhaps someone here has.

Sometimes, the person may have the spam filter up too high. God knows how many messages have been lost worldwide because of that. Here they even get spam text messages on cell-phones.

But I've gotten e-mails from Naver accounts and other in-country accounts.
Maybe it's a governmental thing.

flummuxt · Joined: 15 Mar 2007

caniff wrote:

ryouga013 · Joined: 14 Sep 2007

I didn't have problems with my American account to a Korean account but damned if my Japanese account was stopped on multiple occasions.

cunning_stunt · Joined: 16 Dec 2007

Bollocks...never had this problem at all .

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

I've emailed many people in Korea... only had troubles between my Hotmail and their Hanmail.

Boodleheimer · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:09 am Post subject:

same as Captain Corea.

edit: no, wait. one time i had a bounce-back when i emailed a hanmail account from yahoo.com as well. i've only had one or two hotmail emails actually get through to hanmail.

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

I regularly receive emails from hanmail to my gmail account. I'm curious, if you try to send an email to a hanmail account, and it doesn't work, does it get sent to you with a "delivery failure" message? Or does it just get lost?

flummuxt · Joined: 15 Mar 2007

Smee wrote:

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Justin Hale · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Location: the Straight Talk Express

Perhaps I'm being rather dim and have fundamental misconceptions about what this thread is about, but I communicate with Koreans on a daily basis via a non-Korean server.