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[Zed]

Can't say that I can relate. My Russian girlfriend has the requisite number of toes.







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[mack the knife]

Yeah, but your girlfriend probably wasn't wearing pants that practically split her in half, a slutty top that pushed her boobs out all over the place, and gaudy, over-sized costume glasses. Oh, and stiletto heels, naturally.

I'm sure this is somebody's fantasy woman.

[lush72]

[jaderedux]

[Mashimaro]

Last trip to immigration I spent the 2 hour hour wait studying korean.
What I assumed to be a korean prostitute and her 'mama san' were telling me all the mistakes I had made. I was chatting to the girl for a while, she was really friendly. Can't say the same for the sour ajumma.

She seemed really young.. about 17 or 18. Of course I don't know if she was a 'working girl', she had no business with immigration, she came with her friend she said. The way she was dressed and her slight wariness of the ajumma just gave me that impression.

Really hope I was wrong.. seemingly a very sweet girl.

[SuperFly]

[eamo]

My second last trip to the immigration office was a bit late in the morning so I hit their lunch-break.

My friend and I decided to do the what the romans were doing so we left the office and walked around Omokyo looking for a restaurant.

I swear, no joke, every restaurant in the area had closed for lunch!!! Restaurants closing at lunchtime!!! It was then I realized something was seriously amiss with this country.

I've never seen this in other areas. Just Omokyo.

[paul]

I love the "go back to your own country, commies" thing. Let's call a spade a spade, right?

I mean, forget that it revealed the ignorant, red neck in your otherwise worldly personality. I just love it when people forget about silly things like where they are when they are observing humanity in motion.

And the Russian *beep* thing was priceless; Yep, why let them come in and suck the Koreans dry at $200 for two hours of cold, impersonal sex? Hell, they could go to their own for that for much, much less.

And how dare that Korean immigration officer not speak perfect English! I mean, you would almost think he was an Asian person in some Asian country or something!!

The nerve of some people! They should all get out of our way and let us get on with our lives hassle-free.

[crazylemongirl]

I'm going out there next thursday. Grrrrrrrrrrrr. I hate dealing with immigration.

[Mashimaro]

Can't believe noone has mentioned the squat toilets yet! I couldn't believe they had no western style toilets. So much for making a good impression on foreigners, I guess they don't care too much about the DDD workers, hookers and english teachers

[mindmetoo]

Once while waiting I was overheard some American woman teacher just ripping her Korean boss/director a new one. Too weird. She correctly sussed out he was not just trying to hiring teacher but higher himself a fancy American girlfriend. When she didn't immediately play patty cake with him, he started getting weird on the job. She spent most of the waiting time lisiting all the things he was doing to make her feel uncomfy.

Not sure if she was there to get her alien card or to process her exit work so she could get away from the guy.

[captain kirk]

The immigration office is a funny place, isn't it?
Last time I was there was with my boss and it felt like a trip with Mom to the department store to buy me some pants. I had to nag 'Mom' to get the ARC card before the three month deadline. While 'Mom' was in getting my card I met a very nice American woman. She was trim, and hard-headed and sexy in the way of heroines from 40's movies. Catherine Hepburn-ish. While I was enjoying talking with this woman a big, fat foreigner with red hair and a florid face appeared and told us about his ff'n Korean hagwon boss. Using the occasional vulgarity he described how the boss had made him pay a million won to get a release letter. They'd been on each other's nerves for half a year already, like a drama with hammers. So he 'had to vent'. He assumed we all wanted to kill our bosses. 'Catherine Hepburn's' cool reaction to this, when her prim and proper female Hagwon boss appeared after getting her charge's ARC card, was to say 'just ignore him', and off they went like members of a club for distinguished ladies. The 'boor' announced he was heading into battle with an immigration representive, and lugged up some stairs.

[Butterfly]

[dnamkung]

that was one of the funniest rants i've ever heard in my life.

[mack the knife]

A lot of folks must be wondering what the heck this thread is about. Here is the original post which had been temporarily detained in Guantanamo for questioning...


Do you ever get the feeling when you approach the immigration building in Mok-dong that you're entering an area of Seoul where the normal rules don't apply? I mean, even for Korea this place is way up there on the Richter scale of social turbulence.

First, when you're still a quarter of mile away you hear some cacophonous garbage being blared over loudspeakers that were surely manufactured in the DPRNK. Trust me, they're not selling garlic.

Second, as you near the building you will find yourself swarmed by dozens of jerks trying to push their crappity calling cards on you. "W10,000 for 2 1/2 hours!!" Calling where? Kenya? Get outta my face.

Third, upon entering the dilapidated building which any slum lord would be proud of, one immediately gets jostled about like so much flotsam in the stream of 9,000 Chinese immigrants. They even have a separate line for Chinese. Why in the hell do Chinese want to come to this place? (don't answer that!!). China's the future! Not Korea! Get back to the motherland, and stop bothering me, commies.

Fourth, when you finally get to talk to the English-challenged immigration officer two hours later (eventhough you're in a separate line from the commies), he is brusque and pretentious, like you just took a dump all over his chair or something. Bastardo. I almost forgave him when he jumped down the throat of some loser from a poor country who cut in line. But screw it. Why suffer mercy for those reprobates?

And finally, enough Russian whores already. I mean, can't Korea get some fresh blood from say, America or Mexico or somewhere where every third woman doesn't have an extra toe? Yes, yes, they're here to work in the "entertainment industry". Yeah, and I'm here to trade stocks on the Kospi. Go back to your own country, commies.

In short, regardless of your mission (mine was a fairly simple E2+F2 deal)you will undoubtedly come away from this place feeling a cornucopia of negative emotions including, but certainly not limited to:

Hate, misery, fear, loathing, hautiness, horniness*, confusion, disillusionment, discontent, disenfranchisement (and all the other dissus), prejudice, depression, pessimism, and probably a mild case of TB to boot.















*No, horniness is not inherently negative. If, however, you're wearing thin shorts and boxers...