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[bry0000000]

So I was going over the application for an E-2 visa when I noticed that 'countries' is spelled 'countris.' How silly is that?

Actually, this thread was just an excuse for me to let the world know that I finally got my visa number and can now schedule an interview with the Korean consulate.

[Rex Jacobs]

From what I gather the English on documents in Korea doesn't mean crap. It's 우리말 that holds sway over these lands my friend.

[DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP]

You could write your visa application form with a snickers bar in Korea and they'd still accept it lol.. I kind of love the casualness here.

Contrast that with my experience trying to get a replacmeent passport at the British Consulate in Seoul last week..

First time they turend my appplication down because the first letter of my signiature went a millimetre outside of the box! Lol...

Second time they didn't like the way I write my capital 'G's' and the photo was a millimetre too small in width and breadth lol...

[bry0000000]

I wonder if the American consulate is that bad...

[Teelo]

That document is like a century old. And that isn't the only typo on it either.

[Cheonmunka]

The other day took my kids out and there is some English camp thing, in Busan actually, with 'Soports' classes and even a 'Mothers Revwie' class.

But hey, it's like me in Korean, I don't bother checking a dictionary so it's real easy to get things muddled, 세계-새계, 글씨-굴씨, 데-돼, those sort of things which glare out to the native.

[bluelake]

The form that still bugs me is the one you have to fill out at the post office when you mail a package. No matter where you live in the country, on the return address it ends with Seoul, Korea. I always cross the Seoul out.

[schwa]

The immi sticker in my passport reads: "The period of sojourn is extented until ..."

[DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP]

[Teelo]