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jester67
Joined: 16 Jan 2006
Location: saudi
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 Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject: Bailed out on my Korean credit card----anyone had problems?? |
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I left Korea in 2003 and needless to say I didn't pay off my credit card to a Korean bank. I tried for months after I left to find a way to deal w/ this but they never replied, so I just gave up! I know I'll have bad credit in Korea and I won't apply for another one if I go back. But, my question is concerning others of you who may have had a similar experience.
Is there any connection with bad debt in Korea and getting a new visa.
Do they put foreigners on some kind of blacklist? Maybe I'm just being paranoid or maybe not! Nothing surprises me about Korea!! Any info would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Is there any connection with bad debt in Korea and getting a new visa. |
If there isn't, there should be.
My guess? Probably...........not. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject: Re: Bailed out on my Korean credit card----anyone had proble |
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| jester67 wrote: |
I left Korea in 2003 and needless to say I didn't pay off my credit card to a Korean bank. I tried for months after I left to find a way to deal w/ this but they never replied, so I just gave up! I know I'll have bad credit in Korea and I won't apply for another one if I go back. But, my question is concerning others of you who may have had a similar experience.
Is there any connection with bad debt in Korea and getting a new visa.
Do they put foreigners on some kind of blacklist? Maybe I'm just being paranoid or maybe not! Nothing surprises me about Korea!! Any info would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! |
I won't make a judgement yet, but why couldn't you pay it off before you left, or just wire money from home? The reason I ask is if you don't provide a good reason, I and hopefully everyone on here will blast you until you finally give up posting on this site. You do understand all the trouble we have from cable companies and phone companies are exactly because of this action. Again, you might have a good reason, if so, please share it with us. Otherwise 
How much debt are we talking about? under $1000, I doubt you have much to worry about. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah...people who do things like this are the reason we have a hard time being trusted in Korea. |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I tried for months after I left to find a way to deal w/ this but they never replied |
I had the problem in NZ when the Post Office changed to computers and changed their name to Postbank. I hadn't received any bills for a while. I called them and they said they had no record of me. None whatsoever. I did not exist in their computer. After a while I actually forgot about it.
Eight years later! and out of the blue I got a call from a repo kind of company demanding 2 grand.
But, they didn't charge me interest for all those years. It was their mistake and they knew it. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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Personally, I'd like to see them put fish hooks in your skin and dangle you off the back of the airplane.
Having said that, I think you may be in for a bad surprise.
I know a foreigner who parked her car at Kimpo Airport and left it when she left the country. Two years later the airport parking people contacted the school to say that she owed something like w5 million in parking fees. Maybe that doesn't relate to your case, but I hope it does.
How about trying to pay your legitimate debt again? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
| Yeah...people who do things like this are the reason we have a hard time being trusted in Korea. |
Yeah. Next time someone biatches about Korean banks not giving credit cards to ESL teachers... direct 'em here. In the OP's favor, he did at least try to deal with his debt but it seems the bank didn't even want to deal with his correspondence. |
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steroidmaximus
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: GangWon-Do
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I know a foreigner who parked her car at Kimpo Airport and left it when she left the country. Two years later the airport parking people contacted the school to say that she owed something like w5 million in parking fees |
What an idiot. Didn't she realize that she had to take the plates off?
That said, you better pay your debt, you waygook scum. Koreans don't have any bad debt, never default on their credit cards, and have a refined sense of financial jurisprudence: Kim and Park are coming over to your house to have a little 'chat' about your non-payment. |
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pauly
Joined: 24 Sep 2004
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Speaking of fish-hooks, there's this Korean movie where a guy swallows a bunch of them and them pulls them out. Anyone know the name of that movie? Is it any good? |
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SeoulFinn
Joined: 27 Feb 2006
Location: 1h from Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Speaking of fish-hooks, there's this Korean movie where a guy swallows a bunch of them and them pulls them out. Anyone know the name of that movie? Is it any good? |
The movie you are talking about is �� (Seom) and it's directed by Kim Ki-duk. It goes by the English title The Isle. As for if it's good or not, well, I kinda liked it. It's a bit strange, but thet again so are all of his movies if you ask me.
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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I liked the scene where he catches a fish, cuts off a piece of super fresh sashimi, eats it,then lets the fish go again to swim away.
Yea, people like you are why its so hard to get a credit card in Korea. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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[quote]What an idiot. Didn't she realize that she had to take the plates off?
Ummm...no, this is the same woman who let her 9 year old son run wild on the streets for more than 4 months, totally unsupervised. When she finally caved to the pressure, she 1) dumped him in a Korean public school that had no idea what to do with him and 2) started bringing him to the soju drinking parties with our adult students 'so she could keep an eye on him'. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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Not getting credit cards, large deposits to get telephone service in our names, hakwon directors holding some cash in case of a runner leaving unpaid bills...a long list of things that stem from irresponsibility on the part of some foreigners here.
If the OP did indeed try to settle up, then too bad for them, but I have doubts that a bank would ignore someone trying desparately to give them money. Never known a bank that won't take money owed to them. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Well my local video store trusts foreigners.. no ���� deposit, they didn't even ask for my ARC number. And I don't pay until I return the movie! Crazy. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:11 am Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
| Yeah...people who do things like this are the reason we have a hard time being trusted in Korea. |
ohhh cry me a river!!
this is has nothing to do with not being trusted!
we are foreigenrs!!!
men are here to take their women!!
we are here to buy their companies!
we are here to steal their ideas?? hahahahahah |
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