Grrrrrr...First disappointment of Korea

It's not that bad so don't worry :) I finally received my "green card" which makes me 100% a legal resident of Korea (not that I was in danger before having it). The day I received it, the owner of my school took me down to open a bank account which was very helpful and he deposited a good amount of money in it which was surprising because I wasn't expecting to be paid until next month. I suppose it was for the first week that I worked there. All in all they have been very helpful with things. OK so for the disappointment part....I went to get a cell phone set up here in Korea and after walking into about 15 different phone stores and asking "you speak English", I finally found one! The guy didn't speak much at all but he spoke enough to get the point across and help me with a phone. I spent an hour with him trying to figure out the payment plan, the cost of the phone, setting everything up, and how I would be charged. All in all we figured things out and I had my phone.....or so I thought. As they're bagging everything up for me to take on my way, the owner comes over and says something to him in Korean and the kid looks like he saw a ghost. He then had to turn to me and tell me "you have Korean credit card?" Obviously I said no, but I have a bank card with money on it. He then said "phone company no take your debit card, must have credit card." So with that wonderful information I headed to the closest bank to see if I can apply for a Korean credit card (which I really didn't want to do) and they told me that they do not give credit cards to foreigners...of course not, why would they!? So I then stroll "happily" back to the phone company and tell them that I can't get a credit card and they say sorry, we can't sell phone. They then told me to come back on Saturday because another phone carrier is lowering their prices and they could work with just a debit card in Korea. At that point I just needed to get back home and get ready for class.

SOOOOOO....I'm still waiting on a cell phone but I should have that covered here shortly and if that's the worst of my problems then I say I have things pretty well covered here :)

Until next time, hope you're all doing well!!