I'm sorry to write in English. My computer can't use Korean currently. I also had same experience like you. I came here in Germany as a visiting scientist three months ago with my family.

In my case, I exchanged money for travler's check of German Mark in Korea before left. As you may know, the limitation per person is about 20,000 DM(I'm not sure). However, we brought more than 30,000 DM since some portion had exchanged under the name of my wife.

After we arrived here I opened an accound and deposited it again. There was no problem. If you will live here only for few years like me, you don't need to bring all your property. I think about 30,000 DM will be sufficient to settle even though you have family.

Just for reference, I work at FhG(the former name is GMD) in Sankt Augustin(near Bonn). If you are PhD. student, you'd better to make an international student identity card in Korea before left. It would be helpful to you sometimes.

Good luck!

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