My alien card, about which, my coworker said, "I don't like this picture of you." When I tried to get her to explain what she meant, was it a bad picture or what, she got really evasive.
Comparing bureaucracy in Moscow and Ulsan, while the paperwork here seems much more detailed, strenuous and ridiculous -- they required a notarized, apostilled copy of my diploma even after I had sent my original diploma -- for some reason the system seems more efficient, even though it took me a little over a month to get my alien card. This month was, surprisingly, not on the government side but was my employer. After my boss finally applied for the card, I had it in less than a week.
Here's to being a legal alien! Not even my boss understands why this registration is necessary.
Just awesome. I, too, am registered alien(!!!), visiting from a big cold planet called Canada, far far away. Nobody ever knows why anything needs to be done, but it is always done incredibly efficiently and for about $3.
ReplyDeletecool card, I don't know why that girl didn't like your photo! On your place I would make this card your profile pic on FB for a while;) I understand nothinf of those symboles (which are corean letters, I suppose) But looks great anyway. It seems like a nice thing to show later to your grandchildren, who are going to be proud of the "coolness" of their grandma :)
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I think it's funny that she said she didn't like your photo because the first thing I thought was "Wow, what a great photo. She looks like such an adult, an official adult. Not just a cheesy kid (see: the s*** eating grin in my driver's license photo) hmmm....I think I'm going to practice this in the mirror tonight.
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