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Ethan Allen Hawley · Joined: 04 Jun 2006

So, I'm offered a job, right; and I'm asked to bring my official documents with me all the way to the university, cos of course they can't actually email it to me, right; and on the list of official documents to bring is my resume - translated into Korean - ... huh?!

I've never worked in Busan before... is this just a big quirk of Busan immigration?

Do I really have to dust off my old paper dictionary?
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spyro25 · Joined: 23 Nov 2004

smells like ****, i just applied for mine a week ago and got the visa number from them no problem.

twg · Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Location: Getting some fresh air...

The main thing you'll discover about immigration here is that they have rules, and then they have "rules"

The second version depends upon what they came up with at the last meeting, or if the hagwon owner has been paying his kickbacks on time, or if the guy behind the desk likes your face, or if they feel like bothering that day, how close to lunch it is... etc.

This is the first time I've heard of the translated resume, but since they seem determined to keep raising barriers in the hopes that only "professional" teachers will come to Korea and not some privates-teaching cowboy on a tourist visa, I'm not surprised.

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject:

Sound like another of the Busan office's newest rules. They're notoroious for being pricks to foreign teachers. They are the unfriendliest immigration office, bar none, I've had to deal with. Everytime it's some new hoop I have to jump through. Last time was a LOR; even though I was FINISHED my contract, they wouldn't give me a new visa without the LOR. Bunch of asshats, all of them.

Ethan Allen Hawley · Joined: 04 Jun 2006

Kind-of-an update:

so I called the immigration office;

asked for someone who speaks English;

got put through to a middle-aged sounding male;

he understood the question alright,

- What official documents do I need to give to my school, for them to pass to you at immigration, in order for me to get my visa number?

(deliberately avoided mentioning the whole resume thing - translated or not - ...)

but he wanted to know my name and ID rego. number first;

I asked him why he needed my personal info., and if there was a different set list of required documents for different people;

only got an evasive non-answer, and he said again he needed my ID info. first;

then he asked to speak to someone who spoke Korean;

I said I was on a public phone and had no Korean friends nearby;

he hung up.

...

Very friendly species.

hubba bubba · Joined: 24 Oct 2006

Busan immi sucks the big one, but it sounds like your school just wants a copy of your resume. Did they say anything about immi needing it, or did they just say, bring a copy with you?

goodsounz · Joined: 09 Jan 2006

I've just applied for a job in Busan and I did not have to provide my resume in Korean. Call the immigration department in Seoul to see what the rules are - 02-503-7095. It is not Busan but the rules are the same and you CAN speak to someone in English.

inkoreaforgood · Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Location: Inchon

justin moffatt · Joined: 29 Aug 2006

Is the general consensus that the majority of Pusan immigration officials are hard as*ses? Has anyone done a comparison to Seoul immigration officials? This thread is making me nervous . . .

justin moffatt · Joined: 29 Aug 2006

Is the general consensus that the majority of Pusan immigration officials are hard as*ses? Has anyone done a comparison to Seoul immigration officials? This thread is making me nervous . . .