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| Are you teaching on a tourist visa? |
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| not now but i used to in the past |
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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 7:56 pm Post subject: Are you teaching on a tourist visa? |
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| Anonymous poll here. Are you teaching on a tourist visa? Be honest! |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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I hope no one admits to this publicly.  |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 4:12 am Post subject: |
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Shawn, I worked on a Tourist Visa.
BERLITZ hired me and 3 other teachers from Japan to teach for them in Seoul.
We didn't know at first until one of the 3 teachers realized that our visas were not legal for working in Korea.
BERTLITZ only got us Tourist Visas - LOL!!
In fact, when I entered Korea, the Immigration officer at the airport took my passport, inspected it and then asked me what I intend to do in Korea. I was honest - I told him I was going to teach English. The guy gave me a dirty look, handed me my passport and let me enter the country.
BERLITZ was visited by the Immigration Dpt., the teachers arrested and deported and I would infer that some bullsh*t money was paid under the table so that they could continue their operation.
They continued to hire teachers on Tourist Visas even afer this. Relationships between big companies like BERLITZ and the goverment are quite deep it seems. |
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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:59 am Post subject: |
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I have a C3 tourist visa. It's the official tourist visa. Still, I only get 90 days at a time, but it's good for 5 years. I've had this one 1 year. So far so good. Anyone ever get questioned on a C3?
Of course I'm now working though 
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:04 am Post subject: |
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| Did that when I first came to Korea, but that was a long time ago. Had a friend who did it so often the immigration people in Fukuoka knew him personally. |
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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| I find it hard to believe the results here. When I lived in in Seoul I met many Canadians on tourist visas. Hmm... |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 5:59 am Post subject: |
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| does the month I spent waiting for my school to send me on my visa run count? |
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