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plattwaz · Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Location: <Write something dumb here>

Has anyone else had the census folk by their apt? The lady came by my house just now, and she doesn't speak a word of English, and the forms are in Korean only. She's insistent that foreigners have to complete them too (which makes reasonable sense) but they didn't print any forms in any languages other than Korean!

She wouldn't leave the form for me to take into my school to have someone help me do it, she insisted that it has to be done with her (or so it seems, my Korean is good for day to day life, but not for a situation I've not encountered)...so she left -- quite unhappy that I didn't fill in the form that is not in a language that I speak, and not translatable by the people whose job it is to have the forms filled in.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I had the same experience last week. The census lady brought by a huge form all in Korean, of course. I told her I would have a chin-gu help me with it. She agreed. Unfortunately, my chin-goo was too busy. So the census lady left in a huff and came back a day or two later with a much smaller form printed in a variety of different languages, one of them being English. It took about 3 minutes to fill it out.

Try to persuade your census lady to get the other form.

JungMin · Joined: 18 May 2005

Wow....i just filled one out 10 minutes ago!!! Takes no time, but the lady insisted on looking in my apartment - guess she thought i was lying about how many rooms i have, or too dumb to count!!!

Ekuboko · Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Location: ex-Gyeonggi

I just had a visit from a nice Census lady... she's coming back tomorrow night with an English version, although she did attempt to start filling out the form in Korean!

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

I had a census left on my door, I got it when I came home. I guess if I have time I'll have someone at work help me figure it out, unless I can find a form in English. Maybe I'll call and ask tomorrow about that.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:40 am Post subject:

I filled out the English form at work - two pages, one minute.

Wangja · Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan

Lady popped round last night: 2 minutes, all done.

Laughing

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

i got a big brown envelope in my mailbox. all the forms are in korean.

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

I got my census in my uni mailbox. Written in about 10 different languages! Took less than 5 minutes to complete. Someone around here is pretty good at taking care of us foreigners!!

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

A Lady came round this morning and told me to fill one out - I said, OK. I am waygook, but husband is hangook, so he will fill it out.. she said ok... left me with a huge korean form and a sample form filled out and a brown envelope...

Husband is sleeping on it right now (literally, on the sofa).....

Dugsby · Joined: 24 May 2003 Location: Ulsan

My boss filled mine out (English copy) after I directed the nice lady who gave it to me to my hogwon (three floors below my apartment).

hogwonguy1979 · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den

my upstairs neighbor whose daughter is bilingual filled out mine, worker just went up there and told them to do it for me.

Gwangjuboy · Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Location: England

If anyone has been over here for more than 9 months they shouldn't be complaing about the fact that the form is in Korean. The questions were very easy to answer. I don't know if that applies to people here, but if you have been here for more than 9 months and can't answer those questions in Korean it is a sorry state of affairs.

desultude · Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:45 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I got mine in English, too. The English version has a picture of the nice looking waspy waygook couple on it.

I guess I had better fill it out today.

Wangja · Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan