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[jdog2050]

Hey guys,

Bad news, that whole voice acting prank last weekend in Hongdae may have actually been a sting op for one of those stupid "foreigners behaving badly" news programs. I have to confirm it but my girlfriend heard it from another voice actor who works for KBS (contacting her now).

[pkang0202]

Prank? Voice acting?

What are the details?

[eIn07912]

I know some people that did this a few years ago.

There was a legitimate voice acting gig one weekend. The next weekend, immigration used the same location and paid out the same amount, and I think got the phone numbers of the waegooks that went the first time. When they showed up expecting to earn their 50,000 won for 5 minutes of talking, they booked 'em.

Luckily though, most of the people I know that did it the first time gave false names, made up phone numbers, and bogus emails and ID numbers.. easiest 50 bucks I... err.... they ever made.

[eslpete]

I heard about this too. Supposedly there were hidden video cameras taping the mob of foreigners who were there "to break the law".

Supposedly the footage will be in an upcoming news report.

[jdog2050]

[jdog2050]

[eIn07912]

[Old Gil]

Foreigners milling about in Hongdae? What the hell does that prove other than it's Friday?

[Captain Corea]

[jdog2050]

Ok, my friend just got back to me with this info.

In regards to the "sting" operation:

"This is what my colleague (an actor, who DOES work occasionally with KBS and was scheduled to do THAT SPECIFIC animation job) told me. I had responded [to the ad] myself. She attended the thing too as she was in the area, and she told me that KBS previously told her that the project had taken an "uncontrollable shift in politics" and was delayed for unknown time as a result.They also told her to ignore whatever she heard in terms of the job. They appologized and told her they couldn't share more. She went, and told me that the assumption was that this had to do with some kind of immigrtation related attempt to catch teachers trying to do under the table work. It all bothers me..."

Uhh, this is starting to really freak me out guys. Like, was this a KBS show? Was this immigration [if so, I'd think they'd have busted people on the spot]? If it's immi, did they just save all the info and are combing through it to see who they can arrest?

What's triply irritating is that there ARE C4 and E7 visa's which could support this type of thing, so there isn't even evidence that we had intent to break immigration law.

[is so delicious]

I saw an ad somewhere (I think it was worknplay) advertising for a quick 50,000W for GPS voice-overs. I think it gave directions and times, as well as a phone number.

I hadn't heard about this KBS thing and texted for directions. Just hope that doesn't come back to haunt me. Anyone else hear about this one?

[koreastories]

This sort of thing is so immoral.

[eIn07912]

I think it's just a sign of the times. Korea is not the wild west it was a few years ago. Back then, people taught their privates out in the open, did acting or commercial work, essentially, anything to make the won.

With the influx of teachers lately, because of the rotten North American economies, there's no longer the perpetual shortage of teachers there'd always been. Before, any teacher could have 4 or 5 schools ready to throw a contract at him. If it was a her, she could just about write whatever she wanted into it. Now, I've heard of schools turning people down. It's an employers market.

With all these extra teaching piling up, immigration can stop slagging off and actually do their jobs. They're taking every opportunity to kick us dirty waegooks out of the country. Random drug tests used to be unheard of. Now they're popping at schools, at bars, even peoples houses for Pete's sake. A talent agency my "friend" used to do some work with cut my "friend" off completely. They said words gotten round that they're looking at all foreign actors and models, and if they find someone that's illegal, the agency is going to get levied with massive fine that's sure to drive them out of business.

The good times are over mates. It's time to get your paper work in order and get on the permanent resident status, marry a local, or get out of dodge.

I hear Taiwan's lovely this time of year. A solid 10 years behind in the visa game as well. Hmm, makes me wonder....

[bassexpander]

Who was that poster who was misrepresented on TV here and sued for big bucks? It's a true story.

If this ends up burning legal F-2 holders, then this could make a good lawsuit.