Friday, November 28, 2008

Daum issues?

Anybody else get an error when trying to sign that petition to have the Cheongju judge removed?



I got my Daum ID while working at my old hagwon, as we had a Daum cafe where we posted homework assignments and stuff. Therefore I have no idea what signing up for a Daum account entails, but I suspect it's time-consuming and frustrating for foreigners who live in Korea, to say nothing of the billions of non-Koreans outside the country who may be prohibited from registering.

To try and sign the petition I had to login and then provide my name and my foreigner ID number. The error has been happening after I try to submit that information. It's not simply an error with the screen, as when I typed in the wrong information it prompted me to correct it, but it must be a problem with the next step. Frustrating, to say the least, but par for the course I guess.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Old style program that doesn't recognize foreigner i.d cards, isn't it? I enter marathons pretty regularly, and either they are bang up to date (allowing my real foreigner i.d), or they make a sop of it by circumventing the system with 0000001(male) and 0000002(female). Or they make you call the marathon office to enter, which blows even more. Meanwhile, over at Daum perhaps they just aren't all that interested in whether an unmarried, (to their mind) temporary member of their society wants to try and get a judge removed. Which, disregarding his utterly ludicrous, probably dangerous and almost certainly misogynistic decision, I can kinda understand.