Provinces Add New E-2 Regulations
December 30, 2007 by yangpa
The recent hullabaloo over stricter rules related to the issuance of E-2 visas in Korea is about to get worse. As of Friday morning, immigration officials in Seoul announced that provincial officials will have the power to add certain items to the changes.
By lunchtime Friday, several provinces had drafted new proposals and by that afternoon, immigration offices in Jeju were administering their newly enacted statutes. Pictured below was the first English teacher to undergo Jeju’s “One-Minute Breathholding requirement”. Jared Witchell, pictured below, and originally of Dunedin in New Zealand, took the test in stride.
“Kiwis can outbike, outclimb, and outbreathhold any of you other ESL buggers. I’m glad Jeju is trying to weed out some of the weaker ESL elements. It just means more oranges and kimchi for the rest of us.”
Other provinces and cities are proposing their own Visa requirements. Busan may require prospective teachers to eat live octopi, Chollanamdo is thinking about testing potential teachers aptitude for teaching “protest English”, and Gangwondo is wondering if it may be allowed to ask politely if potential teachers like to ski or not.
Seoul is based on how many noraebang girls you and your chaebol pals can grope in one evening, isn’t it?
Somebody needs to tell Jared that the iddy-biddy things they grow down in Jeju are not really oranges …