Korea or bust

To save time and to get us to Korea quickly (the school is already short a teacher), we are going to skip the visa process in Canada. We'll go in to Korea on a tourist visa, then a couple days later we'll go to Japan to do our visa process there (it takes 2 days, as opposed to a week or more in Canada).
I've been to Japan before. When I list it as one of my countries visited however, it faces contention. See, I was only in the airport there, though I was in that airport for 24 hours during a typhoon, and my passport was stamped. That's enough reason for me to consider having 'been' there.
Now I'll be able to list it without controversy. Though I may not be there for much more than 24 hours, I'll definitely be seeing more than the airport.

As it stands now, we're leaving Canada one week from today.