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Gyopo - Coming to Korea without a BA
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gdnchg



Joined: 20 Mar 2007
PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:10 pm    Post subject: Gyopo - Coming to Korea without a BA Reply with quote
Hello everyone...
Here's my situation. I am a 33 year old gyopo who has a very successful career in Canada...many would say that I have it made. I don't disagree but I've been feeling fed up and restless with Cdn corporate life lately and I have been yearning to take a break and come to Korea to visit my motherland for about a year to teach english. However, the problem is I graduated from university with a 3 year IT diploma and this makes me ineligible for the E2 Visa, and due to recent changes to requirements for the F4 visa I don't qualify for the F4 as well.

So I've been thinking whether it would be wise to come to SK on a tourist visa and teaching illegally or even as far as obtaining a fake BA. Now I know that this would be dishonest..but I want to escape the Great white north pretty bad, and there is no where else that I would want to spend a year other than my homeland.

So having said this, is it possible for me to come and get a teaching job on a tourist visa, and if so how would I go about doing it? If I go via the route of obtaining a fake degree, how would I do it and what would happen if I was caught in either scenario by SK immigration?

So essentially I envsion myself coming to SK on a touris visa....staying at a hostel temporarily and then trying to find a job and a place to stay for a year....is this possible? and is there cheap accommodations available in SK?

Thanks for your comments.
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polonius



Joined: 05 Jun 2004
PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I don't think you are going to get any responses to your questions that you are going to like. Whatever you choose, if you work here, you will be working illegally, and subject to a fine and deportation.
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:21 pm    Post subject: Re: Gyopo - Coming to Korea without a BA Reply with quote
gdnchg wrote:
Hello everyone...
Here's my situation. I am a 33 year old gyopo who has a very successful career in Canada...many would say that I have it made. I don't disagree but I've been feeling fed up and restless with Cdn corporate life lately and I have been yearning to take a break and come to Korea to visit my motherland for about a year to teach english. However, the problem is I graduated from university with a 3 year IT diploma and this makes me ineligible for the E2 Visa, and due to recent changes to requirements for the F4 visa I don't qualify for the F4 as well.

So I've been thinking whether it would be wise to come to SK on a tourist visa and teaching illegally or even as far as obtaining a fake BA. Now I know that this would be dishonest..but I want to escape the Great white north pretty bad, and there is no where else that I would want to spend a year other than my homeland.

So having said this, is it possible for me to come and get a teaching job on a tourist visa, and if so how would I go about doing it? If I go via the route of obtaining a fake degree, how would I do it and what would happen if I was caught in either scenario by SK immigration?

So essentially I envsion myself coming to SK on a touris visa....staying at a hostel temporarily and then trying to find a job and a place to stay for a year....is this possible? and is there cheap accommodations available in SK?

Thanks for your comments.


Why would someone who considers himself reasonably successful want to travel 1/2 way around the world to become a lawbreaker?

STAY home and save us all the grief of yet another illegal tourist getting busted and causing us all to have more hoops to jump through.

BUT (getting off my high horse):
a) the chances of you getting busted are slim,
b) you can't get a job in a responsible hakwon or public school because you are not qualified for an E2,
c) the only option is some low end hakwon that is willing to risk hiring an illegal,

SO

1) the chances of you getting screwed by some slimball hakwon owner are almost guarenteed.
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Captain Corea



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm curious, what changes to the F4 make you ineligible?
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gdnchg



Joined: 20 Mar 2007
PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
'm curious, what changes to the F4 make you ineligible?


I found out through the Korean consulate that in order to qualify for the F4, my parents had to have been full cdn citizens when I was born in Canada...but they were landed immigrants/permanent residents when I was born here...so I've been told that I am ineligible.
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004
PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Teaching illegally has its risks but *don't* go the fake degree route. That could land you in much more serious trouble, included a potential prison sentence.

And I be a bit careful about what you consider your 'homeland' to be. If you've never lived here before, you may not be here very long before you're equating that term with the Great White North.
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pkang0202



Joined: 09 Mar 2007
PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
gdnchg wrote:
'm curious, what changes to the F4 make you ineligible?


I found out through the Korean consulate that in order to qualify for the F4, my parents had to have been full cdn citizens when I was born in Canada...but they were landed immigrants/permanent residents when I was born here...so I've been told that I am ineligible.


You should double check about that. Maybe try calling the US or British Korean consulate. Even if your parents are granted permanent resident alien/immigrant status, they should still be Korean citizens.

Hence, you were born to Korean citizen parents overseas.
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poet13



Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm offended by your whole post.

So what kind of people do you think foreign English teachers are in Korea that we would welcome and be happy to answer questions about how to obtain a fake diploma or whether it's just best to work illegally on a tourist visa?
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Mosley



Joined: 15 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
What poet13 said: DITTO!
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Bondrock



Joined: 08 Oct 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ditto to the ditto