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Intrepid
Joined: 13 May 2004
Location: Yongin
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 Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:50 pm Post subject: Volunteer English teachers needed |
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I organize volunteer English teachers for Samdong Boys' Town, an orphanage in Mapo-gu, Seoul, about ten minutes from the World Cup Stadium (Line 6).
I'll say right off that the last time I posted many people went on about how it was illegal to do volunteer work with an E-2.
Unfortunately, no one else responded.
SO, this ad is for those who have an F-2 visa, or those brave souls with an E-2 who would like to run the risk and help out some kids.
We teach on Sundays, between 1-4 p.m. usually. The boys just moved to a great new facility that has several classrooms. There are books available.
Please PM me if interested. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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If there is no payement how can it be illegal?
Community service does not fall under the same rules as "work", or does it? |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Juregen wrote: |
If there is no payement how can it be illegal?
Community service does not fall under the same rules as "work", or does it? |
That's a great question. Can we get the answer to this? I understand that it depends on the final interpretation of immigration. Doesn't matter if you get paid or not, what matters is what mood that dude is in that day and how he or she chooses to interpret the law.
 Unbelievable. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| How much are you paying? |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Juregen wrote: |
If there is no payement how can it be illegal?
Community service does not fall under the same rules as "work", or does it? |
I believe the presumption is that you are being paid under the table. But, the likelihood that you will be caught is not worth worrying about. I volunteered there before but just don't have time now. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| How much are you paying? |
It'll be in karma. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
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| How much are you paying? |
It'll be in karma. |
How much is that in won? |
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Blinky Bill
Joined: 24 Apr 2005
Location: Jinju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject: Volunteering |
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I have read many posts about the legal situation with doing volunteer work. I have been in Korea for 18 months. I have an F2-1 visa. When I applied for this at Masan immigration I asked if I could do volunteer work.
I was told no problem. So I work 2 days a week at a welfare center in Jinju. I attend to have fun with the kids, I have taught them the alphabet, phonics and numbers but most of the time I play games, watch movies or have cooking classes.
It is a lot of fun for the kids and for me. Because of my volunteering, we now have students from one of the Jinju universities attending on my two days, as volunteers, to help me and learn about the Korean welfare system.
I can tell you with my visa it is not illegal, but it may depend on your visa status, and which immigration office you go to.
If you have the time, volunteering is very rewarding for both you and the kids. I have found that I am respected more in this community because I am prepared to give something back.
My advise is give it a try, but ask immigration first. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject: Re: Volunteering |
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| Blinky Bill wrote: |
| So I work 2 days a week at a welfare center in Jinju.. |
Get the hell out of me. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:56 am Post subject: |
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I don't know if teaching for free is illegal or not, but it violates my sacred contract.
Then again, considering all of my employer's violations, it really isn't much of a contract. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| Blinky Bill, you are F2, there are very few things that violate that visa. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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F2 visa holders can work multiple jobs.
I wouldn't mind doing volunteer work but I have heard horror stories about the Immigration nazis. 
Wouldn't want any of the poor and downtrodden to improve themselves would we? |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| Hater Depot wrote: |
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| How much are you paying? |
It'll be in karma. |
How much is that in won? |
More than one can ever begin to fathom. My wife and I are planning on having one child and adopting one child. We want to be able to give someone a chance; someone that would normally have been discarded as an accident and not worth the 10 minutes of sex (if that) that it took to produce them. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
| Hater Depot wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
| How much are you paying? |
It'll be in karma. |
How much is that in won? |
More than one can ever begin to fathom. |
Ballpark it. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
More than one can ever begin to fathom. My wife and I are planning on having one child and adopting one child. We want to be able to give someone a chance; someone that would normally have been discarded as an accident and not worth the 10 minutes of sex (if that) that it took to produce them. |
It's a good thing adopting. But that last sentence makes me think you're over proud. Having known women who gave up babies for adoption, it is RARELY an act done in a light manner. Add in this is Korea. How many of these women want to keep their babies but their parents force the choice? Some of the stories you read of Korean adoptees who find their mother are horror stories. The mother wakes up in the hospital and the family has already taken the baby and given it to the adoption agency... Maybe that doesn't go on today. You're the expert, I guess. |
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