Comments on: ‘One Big Cluster Fuck’

By: Nappunsaram

Nappunsaram — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:33:17 +0000

You can come and join me, William. I got out just before the fan really started to spray this around.

I’m curious to see, when they finally start getting these screenings, how many E-2 applicants REALLY DO have AIDS or something on their criminal record. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m thinking the proportion will be minuscule.

By: Linkd

Linkd — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:07:14 +0000

Aye, William, well I be knowin’ that when a young man’s heart tells him it’s time t’be goin’, then it’s best to be gettin’ with the goin’.

Ye may be back, tho, as many are. Her embrace is cold, t’be sure, but her teat, yay, her teat is always warm.

By: seouliva

seouliva — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:25:44 +0000

just a note:
came from canadian embassy today; they are saying we will have a 3-month grace period for criminal record checks, and that provincial (local?) checks will be ok, as the RCMP checks are currently 6 months.
just wanted to add to the random tidbits already piling up.
proof of kimchi consumption can also waive the health check portion.

By: The_William_G

The_William_G — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:51:56 +0000

William, you neglected to add private teaching to your list of social defects attributable to persons on E-2’s.

I didn’t have time. I had to run out and price-gouge some private students for the pleasure of sitting in Starbucks and drinking coffee with me.

At first I thought that charging them 70,000 won /hr was kind of slimy. But then I saw what the F2 holders were charging for the same thing and figured I was giving them a bargain.

Well, you could learn Korean and get an E-7.

All sarcasm aside, these rules have finally motivated me to leave after all of these years. I long ago stopped finding Korea sparkling enough to want to put in that sort of effort. Basically, I can’t keep hitting snooze on the alarm clock anymore. I have no hard feelings about it.

The election-time “getting tough on the dirty foreigners least able to give us shit over it” nature of it is what’s annoying me.

But maybe that’s my AIDS acting up. It vibrates when the weather gets cold…

By: fencerider

fencerider — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:29:08 +0000

Dokdoforever, from your lips (or in this case fingers) to God’s Ears!! Unfortunately, I could only be condidered rolling in the dough if my wife dumped a bag of flour on the bed! I have been in Korea for 11 years, married for 8 and on an F2 for 2+ years now…so I should be able to get the F5 this year.

EFLGeek, The 4.5 is the FULL vacation since it does take time to administer tests and post grades and deal with ne’er-do-well 2nd year students who think that getting a job entitles them to do nothing and receive a “D” for the semester. I usually finish the red tape by the 2nd week after final exams and submit my grades, then i’m free.
as for teaching kids, i have done it and I hate it…the money has to be REALLY good to convince me (I have been convinced for 50,000 per 45min class before). Personally, i don’t really consider myself qualified to teach children…I think other than having some kind of training in the TEYL field you have to actually like kids and I don’t (except my own). The “not qualified to teach children” argument has worked whenever I have been asked to teach before.

By: Linkd

Linkd — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:16:07 +0000

E-7 is like a catch-all visa for foreign professionals who aren’t E-2’s and haven’t married into the gene pool. It still requires a sponsoring company, annual renewal, and there is essentially no way that a small (or often mid-sized) company can get one for a foreigner, as Immigration’s baseline response to E-7 applications is “No.” It’s mainly for chaebol use, and existing foreign-owned firms that need to send an overseas staff member here.

By: mateomiguel

mateomiguel — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:00:58 +0000

aaronm, that is one seriously disturbing photo.

I don’t know which is more disturbing — the avatar or the fact that I actually know which website the photo’s from.

Isn’t that guy painted onto the overpass mural in front of Yonsei University?

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:40:02 +0000

What’s an E-7?

By: Alan Partridge

Alan Partridge — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:55:04 +0000

foflappy,
Thanks for the information.

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:39:31 +0000

Oh, if only I was married to a Korean, then all of these problems would magically disappear with the power of the F2!

Well, you could learn Korean and get an E-7. Worked for me!