Andrew
February 17, 2024, 12:15am
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I don’t think he did. He complained to the FSC, as described in the posts below (there might be others - I’m not sure he posted everything, or that I found everything).
Letter from the FOI saying it’s an FSC issue, and complaint to the FSC:
So, I received the reply from the FOI, and it was a bit disappointing, but I do understand their reasoning, see below:
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Below the complaint I just lodged to the FSC instead, since the rationale behind FOI refusal to take up the issue is that “it is not a consumer dispute, but a matter of business management and Financial Supervisory enforcement”:
After going through the full complaint procedure with the FOI, they decided this…
Appeal to the FSC (also discussed in subsequent posts):
today, for whomever is interested, I am finally lodging my administrative appeal application against the FSC for their inaction against Line bank barring foreigners and citizens born abroad from applying to their service.
It is an infuriatingly unfriendly process since there are no actual explanations on the website (even in Chinese) on how to do it, had to send a complaint on how to complain, an FSC officer called me after a few days explaining to me (in Chinese, but fine to me) the procedure …
I did though, against Richart/Taishin/JKO.
My response from the MOI:
I went to the post office today to collect the MOI’s response to the discrimination complaint against Richart/Taishin/JKO that I filed in October.
They upheld my complaint, saying that discrimination against foreigners residing here is completely unacceptable and that they’ve instructed Richart/Taishin/JKO to include foreigners in the current promotion and any future promotions by whatever means necessary.
Only joking!! It was more of the same meaningless excuses.
OCR’d, machine-translated, …
The response to my subsequent appeal:
I went to the post office today to collect the response to my administrative appeal against the Ministry of the Interior regarding my Richart/Taishin/JKO discrimination complaint. It was just a single sheet of A4 paper with a black and white printout of a photograph of somebody’s middle finger.
I’m only joking of course! It was something of a middle finger to foreigners living here, in my opinion and figuratively speaking, but in words instead. Six pages of them, justifying why it’s okay for bu…
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