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gordsellar over at eclexys puts to rest a myth about living in Korea that says foreigners can't get a cell phone in their own names:
For a long time I believed what the employees at local little cell phone shops always claimed when I asked: that a foreigner cannot get a regular phone with a regular phone plan under his or her name in Korea. They always claimed that I had to have the phone under someone else's name. So it went, and my phone was under my friend Seong Hwan's name. Seong Hwan generously allowed me to get a phone with himself signed up as my guarantor. He also let another co-worker of mine do the same. It always struck me as odd that a guy with no job—which was true of him at the time—was signing on as guarantor for two guys working steady jobs at a University. I was right in thinking it somehow nonsensical.
Read the rest, but I should add a military "catch-22" by saying if you're in the US Military, or fall under SOFA status without a Korean registration card (주민등록), you won't be able to do the process linked to by gord.
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http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/kimcheegi/trackback/3/414
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 gordsellar 2005.07.29 12:22 [218.54.40.142]
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Damn, there's always someone who's held back. Can you not get service through some system on-base? Or is that impossible?
The thing that kills me is the idea that a University teacher has to have a Korean guarantor, but that the guarantor can be unemployed or even unable to consistently pay his or her own phone bill. http://img.yahoo.co.kr/blog/emo/18.gif
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 Joel 2005.07.29 13:37 [221.159.25.160]
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I think you mean 외국인등록증. Not even English teachers have a 주민등록번호. That's only for Korean citizens.
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 2005.07.29 20:12
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Gord, USFK can buy phones and prepaid cards. When I first arrived to Waegwan, the Military was one of the biggest offenders in the category of people who never paid the bill. Actually, most would pay until the 11th month, wrack up a huge long distance bill on the 12th month and go back to the states. At least that's how SK Telecom in Waegwan explained it.
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2005.07.29 20:16
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Joel, my wife had SOFA status and her 주민등록번호 until she became a US citizen. That situation, and the kisd who hold "dual citizenship" would be the only case I could think of. The wife was my cell-phone Korean guarantor for most of the 8 years that I spent in Korea.
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Joel 2005.07.30 02:18 [221.159.25.160]
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I just misread the sentence. I didn't see that the sofa status 주민등록번호 were inclusive. A slam on my English and reading comprehension. Oh well. There are worse things I suppose.
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Kevin Kim 2005.07.30 23:23 [211.218.35.59]
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Charlie, many thanks to you and Gord-- and also to Jeff in Pusan, who's been chipping away at the same myth on his blog.
Hope all's well.
Kevin
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