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steelhead · Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 7:46 am Post subject: Motorcycle questions....

Hey alll this stuff just keeps coming up but nothing is really answering my questions.

So here we go:

1) to transfer a bike/scooter to someone else what sort of paperwork do you need to do?
I just bought one and will be selling one in the future
Neither of us knew how to do it, so just wrote out a contract, and some how wordeing the transfer, signing it and getting a witness.

2) Insuring. I dont care about the cost but I am a tourist. I dont have a visa, may get one if I attend Uni in September but that is up in the air.
What do you need? license? Visa? or both.

I had some plates on my current bike and the previous owner even had insurance on it, but the friggen plate either fell off or someone took it. I would like to make it all leagal, been pulled over a couple times b4 on my scooter and its a friggen hastle.

Thanks,
PM me if you have a chance, or if somone really knows the system, give me a phone number and perhaps I coudl give you a call.

Cheers and thanks in advance,

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steelhead · Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 7:01 pm Post subject: bump...

Sorry, some of these transactions have to go down ASAP, so any help greatly appreciated....

The evil penguin · Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 7:54 pm Post subject:

wouldn't worry too much about it.... Had a bike for over a year year without plates and never had a prob. Got pulled over once but they let me just take off when they saw my foreigner nose poking thru the helmet. Getting another bike soon...

komtengi · Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Location: Slummin it up in Haebangchon

when I bought my bike second hand from a dealer, there were transfer papers that I recieved to ensure that the bike was mine.

steelhead · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 7:09 am Post subject: papers

I have the papers that come with the bike. I am sure there must be something more to do. ........ Than just giving something ans signing some where.... I am sure someone out there has transfered something.

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

I've had E2 visas all along. I don't know if you need a working visa to get a Korean driver's licence. To get a Korean driver's licence, which I think you'll need to licence a bike as its owner, it's easy. You just show them your valid licence for your country, pay twenty bucks, and its good for seven years. There is no test. Just an eyechart to read, a 'squeeze my finger' test to check your grip strength, walking a straight line, basic sort of things.

Then you go with your vehicle's papers to the local motor vehicles government office. Pay them some money. For a 125cc motorbike the fee is 125,000 won or something like that. They give you a kind of voucher to take to a sort of outlet somewhere else which hands you a licence plate.

I did this with the help of my haggie wonjonim who actually did all the talking and we went together from place to place. I've heard that anything up to 50cc doesn't need a plate. They're pretty casual, well intentioned, and accomodating the Korean vehicle authorities and it would really help if you could find a Korean, like a boss, to take you through the process. It's all just a matter of going through the formalities, and you have proper papers to prove it's your bike.

On an unrelated note, about motorbike theft, I'd get a good lock. The best you feel like lugging around, a good heavy one. Even if some adult students tonight, and I believe them, say motorbike theft in Korea was an issue a decade ago, but not so much these days. Korea was poorer then. Nowadays, maybe, everybody's better off and theft isn't worth the record, if caught, which would interfere with employment.

wspark · Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul --> Melbourne

Kinda late reply, but if you're still wondering...