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Adventurer
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 Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:32 am Post subject: Foreigners' Associations legal or illegal? |
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| I heared something about some minister saying that volunteering is illegal for foreigners. What if someone started a non-profit organization or an NGO for the purpose of protecting foreigners' rights and advising them of what to do in Korea and preparing them for the working realities of the country and potentially getting them in contact with Koreans who could help. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:35 am Post subject: |
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Isn't that what the Seoul Help Desk is for  |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:50 am Post subject: |
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| Thats the first I have heard of that. Is it only for Seoul? |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:02 am Post subject: |
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sounds like a union to me.
Union bad.
Union illegal.
Union get you in trouble like Pusan 9.
lol@ those dumbasses. |
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Homer
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:05 am Post subject: |
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Will this NGO be there to help all foreign workers in Korea Adventurer?
Or just the white English teachers? |
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AwesomeA
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
Location: Yeosu
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:33 am Post subject: Re: Foreigners' Associations legal or illegal? |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| I heared something about some minister saying that volunteering is illegal for foreigners. What if someone started a non-profit organization or an NGO for the purpose of protecting foreigners' rights and advising them of what to do in Korea and preparing them for the working realities of the country and potentially getting them in contact with Koreans who could help. |
I thought that's what Embassies are for? |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:42 am Post subject: Re: Foreigners' Associations legal or illegal? |
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| AwesomeA wrote: |
| I thought that's what Embassies are for? |
Since when? |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:01 am Post subject: |
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| Homer wrote: |
Will this NGO be there to help all foreign workers in Korea Adventurer?
Or just the white English teachers? |
The idea would be for it to help English teachers. I did not mention race. They can be originally from Germany, the Ukraine, or Hyderbad, India and Gyopos who may know the language but not the laws. Basically, Western English teachers. I feel for the migrant workers from the Phillipines and China, but that would beyond our scope but not our prayers. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:04 am Post subject: Re: Foreigners' Associations legal or illegal? |
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| AwesomeA wrote: |
| Adventurer wrote: |
| I heared something about some minister saying that volunteering is illegal for foreigners. What if someone started a non-profit organization or an NGO for the purpose of protecting foreigners' rights and advising them of what to do in Korea and preparing them for the working realities of the country and potentially getting them in contact with Koreans who could help. |
I thought that's what Embassies are for? |
Embassies do not get involved in a direct way. If you had an NGO they could perhaps connect a Wayguk with a Gyopo or kind Korean who knows the lay out of the land or other Wayguks who know this and that. They could also provide the things to watch out for as a foreigner and pass out literature to the Wayguks they see and take an active role. An embassy wouldn't do that. Of course, they could work with the embassies if they are willing to work with the group. Does anyone think it is a good idea?
Of course, if Korea tried to crack down on such a thing they would be roundly condemned by human rights groups. The group could also get registered in Canada or somewhere else. I just think there is a need for something out there to warn our Western colleagues. We have to watch each other's back without being offensive.
The group would require a website, getting registered abroad unless it is no problem registering them here, and wayguk and gyopo or Korean volunteers. It may be unrealistic to expect a few of us together to start this, not that I haven't helped organize some kind of rights group before back in Canada. |
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Homer
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:43 am Post subject: |
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| The idea would be for it to help English teachers. I did not mention race. They can be originally from Germany, the Ukraine, or Hyderbad, India and Gyopos who may know the language but not the laws. Basically, Western English teachers. I feel for the migrant workers from the Phillipines and China, but that would beyond our scope but not our prayers. |
Then this is just a disguised union.
For reasons stated ad nauseum in other threads about FT unions, it just will not fly.
Nice try however. |
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