The Seoul Metropolitan Government opened the “Seoul Global Center” at the 3rd floor of the Seoul Press Center. The center aims to be a “one stop total service center” for expats and foreign investors. Among the services that will be provided are; issuing of certificates, tourist information, immigration related services, and investment consultation. And what better way for the center to mark its opening than with the Misuda panelists trying out some of its services (pic below).
For non-Korean speakers, here’s a Korea Times article about the center.
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That chick on the left with black hair is HOT. I’m a sucker for bangs.
Me too!
#1 My 12-year-old private student just got a haircut with bangs. Is that something you’d be interested in? She will be a looker in the future.
I like the Asian on the right. Don’t recall seeing her on the show. There really hasn’t been a less-than-quality Asian on the program, now that I think of it.
I would have liked to have been at this event to scope the 수다 chicks.
My Korean female student who works at City Hall WAS there. She said that the Global Center is good. And I read in the paper that a foreigner can simply step up to the window, show his overseas driver’s license, and walk away with a Korean driver’s license.
This pic looks so staged, it’s laughable…
Checking the website for the Global Center… uh oh, enough English errors there to warrant hiring a proofreader. Sure is glitzy-looking, though.
All 수다 sizzle, no steak.
Get a bunch of self-aggrandizing bimbos together…GLOBAL!
Whitey, that quick driver’s license deal sounds too good to be true… do you any more information or a reference on this??
Caption reads:
“What kind of visa do I need to work at a Nite Club in Incheon?”
#7 cmm, Yes, I too thought the license deal can’t be that easy. I read about it here in the JoongAng Daily…
http://joongangdaily.joins.com.....id=2885495
…where there is another picture, from a different angle, of the same posed 수다 ladies. The girl with the bangs looks better in the photo on this blog, I think.
see all of our bitching and moaning has paid off!
enjoy
Hey, can a foreigner with a Korean driver’s license (who long ago dropped his home-nation one) get one of those “International Driver’s License”s, to use when he visits back home…?
#11
Yes, at a driving center (I know there is one in Kangnam), but if you have an E-2 visa, you’ll need to get one of those forms that displays you comings and goings in and out of Korea since you first landed (something about being in Korea a certain number of days out of the year). E-1, E-7 visa holders (and pretty much everyone else) do not have to go through that rigmarole.
#11 + #12
I got mine at the center near the World Cup Stadium. Valid for a year. I can’t recall the price but I think it was less than 20k won.
# 1,
Yeah, but she has her grandmother’s hands… look at those raisins she has for mits!
A trick of lighting?
“The center was set up as part of efforts to develop Seoul into a global city favorable to foreign visitors and residents after the city government announced “Plans for the Globalization of Seoul” last July. ”
Notice how investors are mentioned before residents.
Whitey, thanks for the follow-up.
This is good to hear. So good that I feel bad complaining, but here goes: it’s only open 9-6 M-F?? Hopefully in the future they’ll open for a little while on Saturday and/or later in the evening at least one night per week so people without flexible hours can benefit.
# 15,
Someone’s gotta pay for everything…
#17,
Yeah, it’s called tax payers. I’m one of them.
Thanks for the reply — but i did know that, was specifically wondering if we could get an International Driver’s License at this new “Seoul Global Center”? Yes, i’m both lazy and busy…
Egggg-sellent, as i am now E-1…
Considering the Center seems geared towards those from outside, and that you need to get a International Driving Permit from an authorized party in the same country where your license was issued (the authorized party is usually the local automobile association), I would think not.
Kinda makes you wonder if they’ve got a local branch of the Prosecutor’s Office in the Center. Kind of a ‘getting to know the guys you’ll be spending weeks with once you make some money here’ gesture…
#20,
Kind of a ‘getting to know the guys you’ll be spending weeks with once you make some money here’ gesture
ROFLMAO!
I recently heard Thomas Friedman is writing another book expounding the virtues of globalization tentatively titled, “Seoul: Global Kimchee without Blackberries”.
More window dressing…
Hmm…How to please investors…
How about not suing them when they make any large-scale profits here?
#19.
The Center does have a Driver’s License section;
http://global.seoul.go.kr/glob.....c06_01.jsp
I don’t know if they deal with International Driver’s Licenses, but I guess you could give them a call at the number listed.
The exchanging of your home driving license for a korean one has been available for a long time for those resident for a minimum time (don’t recall if its 3months or 6months) but only for those countries on the list.
And basically those countries on the list are those who have a corresponding reciprocal arrangement for koreans in their country.
If your country is on the list you fill in the form, hand over form and your drivers license at the drivers centre, take the absolutely minimal health check also at the drivers centre [quick eye chart test, bend your knees, show them you have two arms kind of thing], take form, health check certifcate, and photo and fee then go back a couple of hours later and collect your shiny new korean drivers license valid for about 9 years.
Unfortunately, many of you reading this are americans and therefore dip out, because the US doesn’t have a reciprical arrangement so isn’t on the list.
Even if you don’t drive in Korea, the license is a useful thing to have for all those occasions where you’re asked to hand over photo ID, and you don’t want to hand over the all important Alien ID card.
Actually, even Americans can get a Korean drivers license just by showing a valid license issued by a US state and doing a bit of paperwork.
@26, I called them at the SGC, and they said that Americans still have to take the test.
Huh… I didn’t when I got mine. ‘Course, that was a few years ago, and at the Ulsan office, so maybe the guy at the desk that day didn’t know the regs, or thought I was Canadian or something.
Americans have to take a written test. But we’re talking 20 multiple choice questions on a computer, and they give you 50 minutes to complete it. Passing grade is 70 or 75 percent, if I recall correctly. I finished it in under 5 minutes with a passing grade.
#27,28
Yeah, that changed a few years back. I remember one of my friends rushing to get his done before he would have to take the test.