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mark.walters2
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 Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:01 am Post subject: If I entered South Korea as a tourist... |
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| for 3 months, how long before I can enter again...(as a tourist)? |
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Css
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: South of the river
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| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| Whenever you want. |
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mark.walters2
Joined: 20 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:38 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply. So does that mean I can fly off to another country (eg. Japan) for a few days and come back to South Korea as a tourist for another 3 months and keep doing this as long as I want?
Pardon my ignorance |
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mimis
Joined: 24 May 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:41 am Post subject: |
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Yes, that is indeed exactly what it means  |
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mc_jc
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I
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| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:16 am Post subject: |
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You can keep on doing as long as immigrations doesn't catch on to why you keep on entering and exiting.
But then again, that also depends greatly upon nationality. |
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Css
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: South of the river
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| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| mark.walters2 wrote: |
| Css wrote: |
| Whenever you want. |
Thanks for the reply. So does that mean I can fly off to another country (eg. Japan) for a few days and come back to South Korea as a tourist for another 3 months and keep doing this as long as I want?
Pardon my ignorance |
Yes sir.
It will renew each time you re enter the country.
Ive done it for a year at at time before with no issues. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
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If you do this often enough, Immigration may assume that you are teaching illegally without a visa at a hogwan or doing illegal private lessons. There could be consequences.
A teacher I know did this for a couple of years. Eventually, when he applied for an E2 visa for a job he really wanted he was denied. Immigration told him that he was banned from getting an E2 based on their assumption that he'd been working illegally. |
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Cohiba
Joined: 01 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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I had a friend that did this for 6 years. He told immi he was here to
play sports. Immi never gave him a hard time. Of course, he never
wanted to apply for an E2 in the future. Why slap on a pair of handcuffs
when you have freedom, right? Anyway, he made a lot of money
teaching freelance and didn't have to endure primitive, racist and
xenophobic E2 hate laws that so many English teachers here are happy
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