If you're from a visa exempt country, you can enter without a visa. If your country isn't on the visa exemption list, then you need to get an old fashioned tourist visa at a Thai Embassy abroad to enter Thailand. Some countries aren't elegible for visa exemption, but can get a visa on arrival, but that's only valid for 15 days and can't be extended inside the Kingdom.
In the Thai Embassy in South Korea they always had the requirement to show bank statements with at least 800,000 won (around 20,000 baht) for single entry tourism visas and 2,000,000 won (around 50,000 baht) for multi entry. This didn't apply for anyone -including Korean nationals- who could enter on visa exempt, rather for people (of any citizenship) getting a tourist visa there. Remember there are still a handful of countries that CAN'T still enter visa free.
In the Thai Embassy in South Korea they always had the requirement to show bank statements with at least 800,000 won (around 20,000 baht) for single entry tourism visas and 2,000,000 won (around 50,000 baht) for multi entry. This didn't apply for anyone -including Korean nationals- who could enter on visa exempt, rather for people (or any citizenship) getting a tourist visa there. Remember there are still a handful of countries that CAN'T still enter visa free.
Participante anónimo It's been cancelled by the Embassy, unfortunately. It means you didn't meet the requirements or something was wrong, such as your names or date of birth etc. 🥲
I don't know how that works in Germany, but in my country, you're always a "resident" (for official matters) even if you don't live there, you can always issue or reissue passport and national ID cards without any conditions. I know that other countries have a system where if you live more than xx months abroad, you become an "overseas resident".