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[2dpigs]

I have had an F5 for maybe 10-12 years, got divorced 3-1/2 years ago (her idea), married a Vietnamese woman 18 months ago, couldn't get her into Korea, so we hung out in Thailand. Nice extended vacation, lots of English lessons, plus algebra, geometry and trig, but now it is time to return to the real world.

So I have been out of country maybe 26 months (with a return to keep F5 valid). I have read up on Korean citizenship on the Web, but the sets of official Web pages and real life may have minimal intersection.

I think I can get her into Korea now. What can I plan on (hope for) as to the citizenship. Before my travels starting a couple of years ago, I worked in Korea uninterrupted from 1990 on.

I could really use some good, practical advice, because if citizenship is really iffy, I may have to make other plans. Which would be, as they used to say, a bummer. My connection with Korea reminds me of "Unforgiven,"when William Munny says, after he learns his best friend has been killed, to the a kid he barely knows , "Don't worry, I ain't going to kill you. Right now you're the best friend I got. Which shows how much trouble I'm in."

I want to come home. Yeah, Korea is my home. Which perhaps, as Munny says, shows how much trouble I'm in. The ex got the apartment, and I want to get a new one. And feel all warm and cuddly with my new Korean passport.

[T-J]

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