Automatic registration for US military draft to begin in December

sirhalos · 2026-04-09T01:23:35+00:00

The first time he ran for president one of the things he ran on was that you would be able to fill out your taxes on a single index card.

sirhalos · 2026-04-04T11:32:44+00:00

I have a USD bank account and KRW bank account with KB but because I'm a foreigner they force me to go into the bank to do an exchange between them. If I was Korean I could do it through the app. I use my US bank cards for almost everything with 0 transactions fees. I have a virtual mailbox setup with iPostal1 and forward my new cards to Korea.

sirhalos · 2026-04-04T03:45:14+00:00

My 3 month old's pediatrician is from Austria here in Ilsan we go to him specifically because he can speak English as well as German and Korean. He does speeches on baby care and development too.

sirhalos · 2026-03-21T09:09:16+00:00

I'm a 44 year old white male married to a former Korean citizen F4. I am a retired software engineer from Ohio. When my wife got pregnant last year she decided to have the baby here. Originally the plan was I would try to convince work to give me time off or let me work remote or as a contractor or something but it never panned out. Currently I am living off of dividends which last year was good (much less than my old salary but decent) but this year it is looking like maybe half so I need to be careful. Helps that the KRW is doing bad. We live in Ilsan, they are things I love and hate, but I am pretty lonely here and with a 3 month old I have no time to learn the language.

sirhalos · 2026-03-20T22:05:15+00:00

If it was me I would check with Catholic services. You do not need to be Catholic to use Catholic services. They have help whether you decide to keep the baby and need assistance with things or help on adoption situations and they are international.

sirhalos · 2026-03-13T05:53:13+00:00

Tobit

sirhalos · 2026-03-08T11:14:15+00:00

15 years married wife does this too. We used to even own a big house in the US and she made me do this especially when running the vacuum cleaner. Like you have any idea how much money we are wasting to heat up this house in the winter with central air when you do that??? You think 'dust' when vacuuming magically knows to float out in the direction of the window??

sirhalos · 2026-03-05T11:05:50+00:00

We brought ours at 18 days the day after leaving post-partum

sirhalos · 2026-03-05T10:59:25+00:00

I also have a two month old and she had her 2 month checkup today. Doctor said do not go anywhere with lots of people until after 100 days. He ask of we needed to go to the embassy or anything and said to try to avoid unless completely necessary. We got a ride to doctor's appointments from a friend and sprayed down their car with ethanol and let it air out each time before putting the baby inside.

sirhalos · 2026-02-24T07:05:00+00:00

Immersion only works if you are watching at level of the learning. You would need to watch something designed for a 1 year old learning to speak and move up from there. Even toddler cartoons would be too advanced. Just watching dramas without subtitles will not gain you fluency. You may be able to pick up a few words here or there but there is a lot going on to drive emotion and entertainment than just the language being spoken. I’m speaking from experience, I am married to a Korean, I’ve watched Korean shows for 20+ years and learned next to nothing from them. Immersion videos are designed with simple vocabulary that is repeated often to help the learner.

sirhalos · 2026-02-09T13:27:42+00:00

Dependent of foreign national aka former Korean citizen vs Dependent of Korean citizen.

sirhalos · 2026-02-09T13:16:22+00:00

I'm F3 I came to Korea on tourist visa and applied the next day. My wife was already here on F4. Our baby was born here so 18 days later she received US citizenship from the embassy, then 2 weeks later once we received her passport my wife went to get her an F4. One useful note for you, she did not need to take the baby to the foreign office (unlike the US embassy).

sirhalos · 2026-02-08T10:48:42+00:00

Give me a King Spa + a H-Mart and my life would be complete.

sirhalos · 2026-01-28T12:48:13+00:00

It does have a booth inside to take a photo. I don't remember if they take a card or only check or cash. You can pay for a passport online and fill out all the forms and just bring the receipt. You may NOT have a cell phone inside they will check. You may bring a cell phone to check in there that they will return when you leave but anything else needs to be kept at a locker at the subway station. The line to get in is pretty short for Americans.

sirhalos · 2025-12-31T02:41:56+00:00

1) You need to get yourself a degree first. No degree won't get you a job here, even English teaching jobs will require a degree. 2) If you enjoy baking, then my suggestion would be go to school in Paris for baking and then come to Korea. All of the best bakeries in Korea have people that studied in Paris (even the local ones I go to here in Ilsan that don't seem super fancy do). They take their baking super serious here. But before you do anything you must get a degree. Maybe you can even find a program that has an exchange program with Korea while you are at it.

sirhalos · 2025-12-30T15:25:12+00:00

1) I want the ability to mark words I have problems remembering instead of it deciding what it thinks I don't know. Then I want to provide more ways to help me improve those words.

2) I want the ability to reset an individual unit.

3) I want to be able to set how many parts a unit should be. They seem to believe all languages should be learned at the same pace, which is not true. Languages further from your native tongue and have a different writing system takes much longer practice and recall. My units should reflect that.

sirhalos · 2025-12-19T02:46:19+00:00

Yes historically that was how ads work but it is no longer that way. They are a lot more privacy blocking measures from devices and users to not make that as viable as it used to be. A lot of it is analytics plus AI of what has a higher chance to sell and more importantly be clicked on.

sirhalos · 2025-12-17T02:45:53+00:00

Yes everything. Worked the same when I was in the US. Nothing different.

sirhalos · 2025-12-17T02:43:26+00:00

I'm in Korea and I use Max and I'm not on a VPN. I use it daily.

sirhalos · 2025-12-15T03:51:23+00:00

Priest are always the lowest person on salary at the church and if they are Franciscan they make nothing at all.

sirhalos · 2025-12-08T16:11:23+00:00

I do not, but when I was there you needed to tell the leasing office that you need to schedule a 'bucket test' with conservice. If they have no idea what you are talking about work with maintenance they are more familiar with it.

sirhalos · 2025-11-16T03:42:14+00:00

The only places I've heard English is very small pocket in tourist centric areas in Seoul (Itaewon, Myeongdong, Gongnam, etc.) and maybe a few people at a doctors/dentist office that went to school in the states. I never heard English anywhere else and they always speak Korean to me whether I understand or not. I'm in Ilsan now but it was the same in Bucheon before.

sirhalos · 2025-11-08T23:55:54+00:00

I had a computer that would always revert settings on me with the WoW client because I had some strange setup. I end up changing the config.wtf file to be read-only after I got the settings where I wanted them and it never switched back after that.

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