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Lizara · 26th January 2008, 12:02

I've whined about this repeatedly on the Korean forums, but anyway...

it's not the check. I got that done quite easily. It's the fact that I then have to have it notarized/apostilled, which is a colossal pain in the ass and would probably require me to go back to Canada AND doesn't even mean anything useful in this circumstance. Combine that with the total confusion and lack of definite information about the new rules, and it's just not worth it to work in Korea now. I've left and a good 50% of my friends there are leaving within the next year as well... so good luck with getting all of those subjects taught in English, guys.

I'm in favour of requiring criminal record checks, for what it's worth... but they've taken a good idea and completely fucked it up by adding all these other requirements. plus, they don't seem to know the difference between state and national criminal record checks, so from what I hear, someone with a record could just apply for their check in some state they'd never been to and it would come up clean.

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Lizara Lizara is waiting for www.ajarnforum.net... User. Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2,075 vCash: 500 Blog Entries: 5 Rep Power: 804	Re: Korea - New Visa Rules Mean Some Teachers Have to Go Home? I've whined about this repeatedly on the Korean forums, but anyway... it's not the check. I got that done quite easily. It's the fact that I then have to have it notarized/apostilled, which is a colossal pain in the ass and would probably require me to go back to Canada AND doesn't even mean anything useful in this circumstance. Combine that with the total confusion and lack of definite information about the new rules, and it's just not worth it to work in Korea now. I've left and a good 50% of my friends there are leaving within the next year as well... so good luck with getting all of those subjects taught in English, guys. I'm in favour of requiring criminal record checks, for what it's worth... but they've taken a good idea and completely fucked it up by adding all these other requirements. plus, they don't seem to know the difference between state and national criminal record checks, so from what I hear, someone with a record could just apply for their check in some state they'd never been to and it would come up clean.