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I'm renewing my contract with my current employer. I understand I won't need to make a visa run in order to get a new work visa, ARC, etc; it just requires a trip to Immigration. However, I've been offered a camp job in China this summer. I work at a university so I have the summer off; there's no schedule conflict. Do I need a permission letter and amendment stamp in my passport in order to do the China job? I can see this one going either way.

Also, I just renewed my passport. There's no work visa in the new one. When I registered it with Immigration, I was told that the ARC is what really matters. When the time comes to visit the Chinese Embassy and Immigration, I figured I'd bring the old passport along, as well.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

[kigolo1881]

Don't be too paranoid, your korean employer doesn't own you.
You are leaving to work temporarily in a different country.

What you do on your vacation in a different country is none of their business.

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That was my suspicion too: what I do abroad is not under Korean jurisdiction. However, the presence of a Chinese work visa in my passport might raise an eyebrow at Immigration. Considering the lack of consistency here, I thought I might as well do some preemptive asking-around.

[ttompatz]

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