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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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 Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:38 am Post subject: People you meet on a visa run |
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i have met some real idiots and also some nice people..
i generally hook up with some people i meet at the consulate.. we have lunch together and hang out.. maybe, go out at night if it is an overnight job.. say there are 5 of us, a lot of the time it is only 1 or 2 people that seem easy going.. the rest are just there cuz we met up together and cuz its bloody rude to ditch somebody in a foreign country..
this time... i met a nice canadian girl and a finnish software designer on the ferry on the way home.. cool lad.
i hung out with a gi last night, nice guy.
all the other foreigners i met were tools..
just wondering what happens on the ol visa run with other people..
do you meet nut jobs or people in general seem cool enough.. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:42 am Post subject: |
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I've wondered how a visa run would be like.
Signing on for a third year at the same hagwon doesn't lend itself to visa run experiences.
But if I ever do, I'm interested in hearing about Japanese and Thai visa run experiences. Hong Kong too (for a fun jaunt to Macau). |
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Bunnymonster
Joined: 16 Mar 2004
Location: Tokyo
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:29 am Post subject: |
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yeah my visa run was an experience. A very very interesting day where we very nearly missed our flight back to Korea, had to avoid being provoked by a drunken idiot and very nearly got kicked off the bus back from Incheon for singing bad country songs. Oh and someone acquired a floatation device from the airliner. I'll dig up the report one of the crew wrote after the event later on.
*EDIT* and here it is thanks to David for this story which sums up most of the day pretty well |
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marista99
Joined: 05 Jun 2004
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
I've wondered how a visa run would be like.
Signing on for a third year at the same hagwon doesn't lend itself to visa run experiences. |
So you only need a visa run if you change hagwons? I thought you always had to leave the country every 12 months if you were on an E2, even if you were staying at the same school.
I met a really nice Irish girl in line at immigration in Osaka. We navigated our way to the embassy together and then went for lunch. It was nice not to be by myself. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| marista99 wrote: |
| So you only need a visa run if you change hagwons? I thought you always had to leave the country every 12 months if you were on an E2, even if you were staying at the same school. |
You don't have to leave the country again, at least I didn't.
We just went to the same immigration/registry office locally here in Korea where I initially received my photo i.d. work card (whatver it's called). They had me sign new forms and put a sticky on the back with a revised date, paid a processing fee, and that was it.
Not having to do a visa run was a huge plus.
But if there's a lot of great visa run stories then maybe I'm missing out.  |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:58 am Post subject: |
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can go either way
lots of flakes out there in EFL land, though. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| Visa runs are good, because you can meet cool chicks. The first one I chatted to a really cute American girl on the plane. I met her again in Geckos a few months later and ended up snogging her. Unfortunately her boyfriend wasn't too happy about it, and they broke up over it. Long story there. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:55 am Post subject: |
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| rapier wrote: |
Visa runs are good, because you can meet cool chicks. The first one I chatted to a really cute American girl on the plane. I met her again in Geckos a few months later and ended up snogging her. Unfortunately her boyfriend wasn't too happy about it, and they broke up over it. Long story there.
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Not to be a *beep* here Rapier as you seem to be OK but what goes around comes around hey.
All this complaining you do about two timing commitment-phobe K-girls and you are just as bad as them.
You know the saying old son, don't throw stones at glasshouses.
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osangrl
Joined: 04 Nov 2003
Location: osan
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| Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:51 am Post subject: |
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Ive been on two visa runs... first one met a british guy in that british pub across from the embassy, drank with him all nite and gotta a lil cozy and the next day we went sex shop shopping. It was really fun.
Second one, i met this guy and we talked and talked all the way to the embassy, weird looking guy.... then we went shopping at the gap, where he was shopping in the women's section. Turned out it was a weird looking girl.  |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:14 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
I've wondered how a visa run would be like.
Signing on for a third year at the same hagwon doesn't lend itself to visa run experiences. |
So if you sign on another year.. you don't have to leave the country and come back? |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| My visa runs have been to Bangkok. there are mixed up with end of year vacations. The embassy isn't downtown but there is a new subway sort of near Kao San Rd. Its about $3 round trip and requires a next day pick up. |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:29 am Post subject: |
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I always go to Bangkok for my visa runs as well.
I was there last June and left the same day they were opening the new subway system - how is it? |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| Its delightful. Very new and nice, very Seoul subway like. Square and stony. Heavy AC and no bathrooms. Its lets the poor of BKK live well and be dignified for a few minutes. |
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superhal
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:26 am Post subject: |
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| i only met one foreigner on my visa run. he was a pretty nice guy, and we had lunch together at the museum in fukuoka. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Last visa run I went was feb 04. As it was the last business day before the school year it was really busy at the osaka embassy. There was a freaky waygook there that kept flicking my hair |
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