Korean Job Discussion Forums

jurassic82 · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Location: Somewhere!!!!

I am in the process of looking for a new job and had a question about my transcripts. I had some transcripts sent to Korea about 8 months ago and was wondering does immigration have a limit on how old the transcripts can be. I don't think so but a friend of mine told me that they had to be less than a year old. I don't know what the truth is in this. Is it true or not? Shocked

PaulPizzazz · Joined: 15 Mar 2006

It shouldn't be a problem.

I applied for my second job in Korea last January. At the time, the transcripts that I provided were 2 years old.

If someone knows differently, please post.

semphoon · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: Where Nowon is

I have heard that they can be up to 3 months old.

I might be wrong.

Hyeon Een · Joined: 24 Jun 2005

I'm going to go buy a cheap library-style changeable-date stamp next time I apply for a job. Then I can stamp a new date over the seal every time I apply for a new job[I have a stack of sealed transcripts]. "Double-Sealed" baby. It's the future. I'll mess with their heads and stamp them the day after they get them. I'll probably get processed quicker then.

andrew · Joined: 30 Jan 2003

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midian3x · Joined: 18 Sep 2006

So you have to send transcripts to a new school even if you have already worked in Korea for a year or 2 or 10?

Thats ..............................

interesting.

princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia

polonius · Joined: 05 Jun 2004

I recently hired teachers, and tried to process their documents. I encountered 2 different problems for 2 teachers regarding transcripts.

1. If the transcripts were more than 3 months old, they were refused.
2. If the seal date on the outside of the transcript is different from that on the inside, they were refused.

So, yes, you need new, recently issued transcripts everytime you change jobs in Korea. If you stay at one place, then you don't need to bother with new transcripts.

ethanp · Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Location: In transit

I ran into the same problem. I just got an email informing me that because my transcripts were issued more than two years ago, I would have to submit a newly issued transcript. They also asked if they could have my student ID number and password so that immigration could log into my university's website and look up my unoffical transcripts, and said this would be an acceptable alternative. Unfortunately, I graduated before this online system was instituted. I am in Tokyo, so a trip to the registrars office with two forms of photo ID in order to create an account is. . .um. . .inconvenient! So I'll have to rush order a transcript and FedEx it to whoever. Argh! I started this process mid-OCTOBER in order to ensure that I would have plenty of time to process everything. So they inform me TODAY that my transcripts are 'not acceptable'. I am vexed--terribly vexed! Guess I should have enough time before my Nov. 24th flight. Guess it's too much to ask to have these sort of requirements presented beforehand. I say again--argh!