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Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 5, Making photos for passport by myself


 : There are choices... you can make it by yourself or you can use a professional studio. If you have a good digital camera and a print out machine, you'd better make your own photo. If you are more interested in how you look, you'd better go to a studio.


   My method

 1. Find your previous photo for passport. 

 2. Scan using a scanner. 

 3. Using photoshop or image editor, trim the edges...

 4. Use a photo printing online service such as scopy.


 Total expense: 3,900 won. Total photos: 18.



 Previous postings

  1. 2016.11.15 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 2 again, Passport and VISA, the VISA arrived 
  2. 2016.11.13 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 4, Currency Exchange 
  3. 2016.11.13 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 3, Roaming 
  4. 2016.11.10 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 2, Passport and VISA 
  5. 2016.11.05 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 1, Flight ticket and seat number 






1

 If you plan to do by yourself...



A. Please note the size of the photo for passport. I didn't know that there is a fixed specification on the photo for passport. And the background color should be white.... no color....  


  The specification is rather complicated... issued by the Foreign Affair Ministry. You can see the details by clicking here.


  Basic

  - Horizontal 3.5cm, Vertical 4.5cm. Photographed within 6 months. Front face and no head wear. The length of photoed head should be 3.2 ~ 3.6 cm.

  - Background should be Black.

 

It's the details specified by the Ministry




: FYI, it was not easy to keep the specification elaborately and strictly. If you are not sure how to shoot a photo... you'd better go to a Studio.


 Of course, several experience will make it perfect.


 B. Prepare the camera... and make the background white... If your wall paper is white... it's good... If not, you are going to use a white curtain or something like that.... on the wall. 

 

 C. Take a picture many times... And then select the one closest to the specification.


 D. And the volume and the size rather be bigger. Because with high resolution, you can retouch the photo later...

 

 E. And then print out... using a photo printer...






2

 How to use Skopi service



You can get the photos home if you use skopi kind of service...The minimum resolution of the photo was 800x600 px.




1. Click on the marked one


2. And then click on '증명사진' with mark.


3. Make a unique title


4. And then upload the photo you prepared 


5. And then the result will be like following.



6. After editing, you can order it.


7. The total fee? 3,900 won


: And then it arrived.


Arrived photos





The photo


I measured. It's 1mm bigger than the specification...





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  3. 2016.11.13 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 4, Currency Exchange
  4. 2016.11.13 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 3, Roaming
  5. 2016.11.10 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 2, Passport and VISA
  6. 2016.11.05 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 1, Flight ticket and seat number

Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 2 again, Passport and VISA, the VISA arrived


 : It took a while to get the VISA. I thought I would get that in 3 or 4 days. I guess there is some issue..such as the agency waited until other customers gather... got get more profit... 


 March 15  Sent my passport

 March 25  Received my passport.


 It took 10 days to get VISA. Of course considering the business days... you might say it took about 8 days... But it's a kind of long period... 


 Previous Postings

  1. 2016.11.15 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 2 again, Passport and VISA, the VISA arrived 
  2. 2016.11.13 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 4, Currency Exchange 
  3. 2016.11.13 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 3, Roaming 
  4. 2016.11.10 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 2, Passport and VISA 
  5. 2016.11.05 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 1, Flight ticket and seat number 





1

 Passport arrived



: They sent the package with a registration. And the postman asked me to sign on the device, to ensure I received the package... because it has the passport.



Well packaged



Even including a slip...


This is the VISA




: Passport NO.and it says, it's valid for 3 months from the issuing date. And the entry is only 1 possible. And the staying days 28...






2

 미얀마를 거쳐서 태국이나 다른 나라....



: If you are planning the travel, you need to check your VISA permit to enter the country multiple times or not.... It is called as 'single' or 'multiple'. If you have a single entry VISA, you are not allowed to enter the country again with the VISA... you have to get the VISA again... which means you have to pay some money for that. And FYI, VISA for Thai is multiple... and 90 days.... which is quite good.




The following picture shows the previous card type VISA.


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  2. 2016.11.15 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 2 again, Passport and VISA, the VISA arrived
  3. 2016.11.13 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 4, Currency Exchange
  4. 2016.11.13 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 3, Roaming
  5. 2016.11.10 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 2, Passport and VISA
  6. 2016.11.05 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 1, Flight ticket and seat number


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  4. 2016.11.13 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 3, Roaming
  5. 2016.11.10 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 2, Passport and VISA
  6. 2016.11.05 Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 1, Flight ticket and seat number

Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 4, Currency Exchange


 : It's very nuisance... Yes, preparation never ends... I know.. I came to know that... from this travel. Just with Korean won, I wish everything be fine.... But in reality, I have to exchange Korean won into Dollars before I go abroad. This is where the agencies stand for... 


 This is another reason why we want to be rich...  


 Conclusion

 1. If you want to change money into Kyat, you'd better have dollars... But Thai batt is also OK. If you bring other currencies such as Korean won, British Pound... it is not easy to get Kyat...

 2. If you transfer from Bangkok, you can exchange Korean won into Dollars or batt at the bangkok airport.

 3. Without cash, if you bring your credit card, you can extract Kyat there.. No worries. Of course there is a handling fee for that... Anyway there is a way...


 4. But currently, the country changes fast... therefore this time you may be able to exchange your money into Kyat without dollars....


 5. If you try to exchange other currency into Dollars... it go through two steps... first the foreign currency into Korean won and then into dollars.






1

 I came to exchange the money in Korea



: If I had much Korean won, it won't be that difficult... but... I had GBP.... And then I extracted my pound and then I planned to check if it is possible to exchange GBP into Dollars or Kyat there directly.... It found out to be not feasible there....


 Additional information on the March 23 2016(Kookmin Bank)

 - With Foreign currency but Dollars, you are going to exchange the money two times... (for example, GBP -> KRW -> USD). This also applies in case of wire transfer.

 - You can extract your GBP in cash(Other currencies also possible but it's possible when the bank has the cash). The handling fee about 1% . -> I plan to bring small amount of GBP.

 - The exchange rate of wire transfer is different from that of cash(Wire transfer rate is better than cash rate). According to the teller there, there was just slight different between extracting GBP cash and exchanging GBP into Dollars. 

 - Depositing foreign currencies except dollars costs you a fee for that.

 - If you exchange your money more than 300 dollars, you can subscribe traveller's insurance... of course the coverage will be different according to the exchange amount.



 If you are going to exchange KWR into USD, it's very easy. Even there is a very convenient service you can get the money from the airport.... after applying the currency exchange on the Internet.


It's called, Network exchange



It's possible to use 24 hours



It's extracted from your bank account



문의 전화...로 직접 물어 봤다. 외화에서 외화로는 안된단다.



: Yes, they made it.... very convenient... In theory, currency exchange should be directly.. from currency to currency but it's not... They charge % money from it... Damn...








2

 Latest information on Myanmar Currency Exchange


: On Internet, there are less information on it.... expecially in Myanmar.... And the Korean web pages....yep... really scarce...



It was possible to exchange GBP into Dollars at the Bangkok airport



Information found on Internet






Well organized myanmar currency exchange information



: In summar...


  - Cash dollars should be very clean

  - There are many ATM.. there... therefore it's not difficult to extract Kyat there.

 - Recently, Myanmar government promote the use of Kyat... But still as far as I checked there, they accept dollars...




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Myanmar Travel - The preparing Part 3, Roaming


 : Mobile phone and the currency exchange is inevitable thing when you travel abroad. If you don't use that, it's OK. But if you are a owner of a mobile phone at least you have to halt the phone service for the while. If you plan to use roaming service, you have to apply for that before going abroad.


 And then currency exchange... It's also not that simple.... especially to Koreans... Because won currency are not able to use for currency exchange in many countries... Of course, in Thai, it's OK even if you bring Korean won...


 What to do

 1. Stop the 'roaming data service' before departing.

 2. Cancel incoming call if it's not important. And if you need to call, buy a local sim card. It's more cheaper than using the roaming service.

 3. SMS receiving is free... So use it... But sending SMS costs much. 


 4. In case you don't need to use any cell phone, Just pause the service... This can be better option.

    - In case the monthly fee is more than 70,000 won, you'd better pause the service during the travelling. While you traveling, you cannot use your free call and SMS. 

  Therefore, you'd better use all the left call and SMS as much as you can before departing.




1

 Let's find the details.



: Fortunately, we can see how much money I am going to pay when I use roaming service... on the LG uplus website. It was huge. 


I calculated the fee with the free minutes and the service with my current plan, about 30,000 won per month


: Do you see the price? 9.8 million won? Almost it's for the Data. In case you used about 977 MB for 27 days, you are going to pay 9.1 million won. Approximately 10,000 won per 1MB. Does make sense? And the following is without the data.



After deleting data usage

: And 720,000 won.... Damn... This is for 2 year when you subscribed for 30,000 won plan.



The following is when I minimized.. the usage...

: And...even though... it's about 290,000 won. And it's without the Tax. I think 100,000 won is a reasonable price...  






2

 Checking roaming service and data blocking


: Roaming service blocking is done not by homepage(web site), but done by phone. Therefore you need to call 114. And then you are going to get SMS confirming your data roaming service is blocked.



And checking roaming service is possible in the country you go

: And this is what to do when you want to use Roaming service. And you can check if you can use the roaming service with your current phone.



Click on the '로밍안내'


And then select options applied.



And the you can see the results like following.


: For roaming service blocking, you should call first... call 114.


 And the cautions are followings. 

 - SMS receiving is free

 - Your subscribed plan is not applied.

 - When it goes above 100,000 won, it blocks the roaming service automatically.





In case you want to deal with the service at the airport. the following is the location



If you click on the following rectangled one... you can see the location.





At the Kimhae airport





Data Roaming blocking application



Applying for it



And then it says... you need to call.. what the...



After applying by phone, you are going to get the message like following.




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