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[imkaereie]

Hello all,

This is a question for all those who are currently or have previously worked for EPIK. When you received your Notice of Appointment, how did it arrive? Was it the postal mail (USPS)? UPS? FedEx?

I'm asking because I may not be home when they send the Appointment Package. I am trying to determine whether the deliverer would just leave the Appointment Package in my mailbox (great) or if they would need a signature (not so great because I might not be home).

Thanks!

[hochhasd]

I believed it is FED EX to you?
If anyone knows what does the Letter of Appointment looks like? Is it titled in english? I want to make sure I get the right thing not just a number.

[imkaereie]

hochhasd, have you participated in EPIK before?

[thinkblue]

what is the notice of appointment? i'm sorry for asking a question from your question.

[imkaereie]

thinkblue, that's OK - I might be using the wrong term for it. what I mean is the contract that you are supposed to sign and take with you to the Consulate to apply for your visa.

[hochhasd]

that's OK - I might be using the wrong term for it. what I mean is the contract that you are supposed to sign and take with you to the Consulate to apply for your visa.


thinkblue
You mail your letter to the Korean consulate in your area so you do not have to go in person for an interview. I am just wondering what it looks like. Because if you get a number you then have to go for an interview.

[thinkblue]

thanks imkaereie and hochhasd for the help! i still need to send in my documents and i'm doing that next week. hope i'm not too late for that and good luck to you both, hope everything works out.

[tonyvu]

[yeremy]

This is the title of the Notice of Acceptance from the President of the National Insitute for International Education Development (NIIED), which I got when I was accepted into EPIK. Is this what you are asking about?

No.----
합격통지서
(Notice of Appointment)

Edit: I applied directly to EPIK because I was already a GEPIK teacher, so it was mailed to me at the apartment where I lived in Korea at that time by the Korean Postal Service.

[Kurtz]

I had to go through that horrible process in Delhi, not a nice place to be stuck waiting for an important package to be delivered down some seedy back street.

The Notice of Appointment in my case was delivered to my guesthouse via Fed-Ex which had to be signed for, along with copies of the contract, and a visa application form. The NOA looked like a mini-diploma. From memory (16 months ago) the contract (or maybe the NOA) had the school's name I was to be working at which was verified by the Korean Consulate in Delhi.

Not sure about doing it in your home country, but for newbies I THINK this process can't be done from abroad.

[hochhasd]

[yeremy]

It is only for EPIK. GEPIK may have their own form, which is different, but I got into GEPIK through a recruiter in a city that runs their own loosely based GEPIK program. I hope this clarifies things.