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[MattAwesome]

I got my visa back the other day. I got accepted to SMOE and start in March. When I got it back I was surprised that it says EPIK program on the remarks. Is this a mistake? I wrote SMOE all over the application and had the notice of appointment from SMOE.

[cruisemonkey]

I can't give you any advice because I simply don't know whether a mistake has been made or not. All Korean embassies/consulates seem to do things differently (it�s the K-way). However, I can tell you the following -

My current employer is a POE and I'm under an EPIK contract. I have two, E-2 visas in an old passport and just took a look at the 'Remarks'.

The visa issued four years ago has -
MSBOXXXXXXXX(numbers).

The visa issued two years ago has -
my Provincial Office of Education (in Hangul).

If your Notice of Appointment was from SMOE I wouldn't worry. All funding for public school, foreign English teachers in Korea ultimately comes from EPIK (SMOE or any other city; GEPIK or any other province; or any individual school etc.).

You can try asking questions of SMOE; however, your questions will likely cause confusion and go unanswered.

Hopefully, someone currently working for SMOE can look at their visa under �Remarks� and respond to this thread.