An installment account is an interest-earning account into which you can save a little bit at a time.
The first thing you need to decide in selecting your installment account is how often you want to deposit into it. You can choose to either make regular, automatic deposits for a designated amount each month, or you can freely make installment deposits whenever you have time and extra cash.
One artist in Seoul has a mission: to create a community where expats and Koreans can express themselves through visual art.
Setting up your own business in Korea can be a daunting task and many variables that we cannot hope to cover here today can affect the process of establishing your business and then setting up your banking. It is best to speak with your teller directly about your unique situation and goals.
Korea’s rich history contains abundant tales of anthropomorphic characters teaching simple lessons, but as globalization and technology creep into everything we do and everywhere we go, these accounts and their influence are losing their place in society. Now a Seoul-based foreign artist is taking up the cause — retelling these sagas with his own modern twist.
The following information was compiled by Daniel Vorderstrasse in November and is subject to change. To add your exhibit, email mattlamers@groovekorea.com — Ed.
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Artist name: Dan Perjovschi
Exhibition name: The News after the News
Running Dates: September 24 – December 4
Location: Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Pyeongchang-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul (north of Bukaksan Park)
Medium: comic-book style drawings
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This monthly column is going to chronicle the many preparations involved in moving my family back to Canada. The endeavour involves a massive number of things, including getting an immigrant visa for my wife (she’s Korean), getting my kid’s English skills up to par, and ensuring we have translations of all relevant documents (birth certificates, immunizations etc.). After two years of planning to move to Ottawa, we eventually decided to move to Toronto, instead.
The mention of eroticism in a public forum invokes taboo reactions and pornographic connotations from the majority of scrutinizers. This is exactly what a group of artists seeks to transcend with the exhibit Erotic Fantasies at the newly opened Café Blind Spot.
“The best erotic art is subtle, playful and suggestive, rather than obvious and explicit,” said IAC director Richard Beaumont. “It leaves plenty of room for the viewer to complete the fantasy using their own imagination. Erotic art is never deliberately obscene, crude or offensive.”
No matter how much artists want to get involved, being an expat artist has its own unique set of advantages and challenges.
Benefits can include press coverage of artists’ lives in Korea. However, being an English teacher by day is not always a good thing when you’re an artist the rest of the time. “We tend to be seen as English teachers who paint, no matter where we’re from or what our occupations may be,” said Mike Stewart.
Submit your banking questions to farnsworth@shinhan.com — Ed.
To be eligible for a credit card you must meet certain eligibility requirements – just as you would have to do back home.
First, you must have a valid passport and Alien Registration Card.
