Korean Visa and Immigration office related revised service rates

Information regarding revised rates for Korean visa/immigration office related services(effective from 1^st Jan 2014).

Source: The Hikorea Site

Service Fee:

C A T E G O R Y	CURRENT (KRW)	REVISED (KRW)
Permitting Activities Outside of Sojourn Status	60,000	120,000
Change/Addition of Workplace	60,000	120,000
Grant of Sojourn Status	40,000	80,000
A Spouse of a Korean National (F-6)	20,000	40,000
Change of Sojourn Status	50,000	10,000
Change of Sojourn Status to F-5 Permanent Resident	50,000	200,000
Extending the Period of Stay	30,000	60,000
A Spouse of a Korean National (F-6)	20,000	30,000
(Re)Issuance of Alien Registration Card․Resident Registration Card	20,000	30,000
Issuance of Miscellaneous Document(s) for all Visa and Immigration-Related Matters (per copy)	1,000	2,000

3. The Effective Date : January, 1st, 2014

Reading on the Subway!

Instead of a lazy Sunday, I happened to get up early today, and take the line 4 subway. My reasons were a few. I had not travelled by subway for a long time in the last many months,  using the car or taking buses. A quiet day to be spent almost silently was part of my plan(there are days I simply switch off my mobile, stay away from computer...probably that is for another post). And, finally to get to reading "eat, pray, love" by Elizabeth Gilbert. Reading books while using trains-long distance or short, has been a favourite pastime while travelling. Probably was a little nostalgic yesterday evening. Probably really wanted to get into the groove. Have hardly read anything in the last one month of being alone here! Being just too caught up at work, reaching home and then taking up books was a bit too much for me to do. Rather, relaxing with movies seemed more palatable! 

"Eat, pray, love" has been in the left-in-the-middle state for a few months now.

And, on top of that, have bought quite a few books from Kyobo online.

It is high time I  start checking out the list of unread books at home. So off I was to the station. And to make things a little interesting, planned to reach Itaewon, have lunch, buy some foodstuff and return. There were shorter routes to go to. But since the focus was on reading while on the subway, I decided to reach the end of Line 4( Wangsimni station) and take line transfers. Almost took 1.5 hours to reach. While going, as luck would have it I stood for almost the whole distance and could hardly read a few pages. On the way back, Wangsimni being the first station, I sat the whole distance.

 About a 100 pages read, made for a very satisfying train journey!