Sookmyung Women's University wrote me earlier today to say they still couldn't find my employment records, and they asked me to provide them with more information about my time there. I gave them my alien-registration information, which they already have, and I gave them specific dates for my time employed at Sookmyung, which I managed to find on my blog: April 2005 to April 2008. Back then, I called my place of employment "Smoo" based on the letters SMU for "Sookmyung University." Little did I know that smoo is Aussie slang for "vagina." Kind of apropos, I guess, given that this is a women's university.
I also gave the requesting office a short list of some of my coworkers, only a few of whose first and last names I remembered (and I can't remember our department head's name). I have no idea whether it'll occur to them to use those names to help triangulate the location of my records. Depending on whatever murky system they've been using to maintain their records, the names might not be any help at all, or, as I said, it might not even occur to them to try triangulating. Anyway, that's about all I can give them, so we'll see what reply I get.
Fingers and tentacles crossed.
I still need to give a holler to my Daegu Catholic U. contact—my former boss there. He got his Ph.D. years ago, so he might not even be at DCU any longer.
UPDATE: I sent an email to two contacts at Daegu Catholic U. If I get all three university certificates of employment, I'll have covered all of my university time in Korea, plus my Golden Goose time for the past decade.
Sookmyung: 2005-2008
[went home, tried to walk across the US; Mom got brain cancer; I got work from 2010 to 2011 (ETS TOEFL essay rater), then work from 2011 to 2013 ("YB" tutoring in Centreville)]
Daegu Catholic: 2013–2014
Dongguk: 2014–2015
Golden Goose: 2015–2025
If any uni expects me to go back to my long-ago employment in the States (and during my 90s-era hagweon "career"), they can suck it.
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