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travioso86



Joined: 16 Feb 2012
Location: California

PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for all your help guys, making me breathe a little easier. Day 1 of no weed... not happy Sad but oh well a new future awaits.

If anyone DOES have an experience with hair testing, bump this shee-ite. Smile
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea

PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

travioso86 wrote:
Thanks for all your help guys, making me breathe a little easier. Day 1 of no weed... not happy Sad but oh well a new future awaits.

If anyone DOES have an experience with hair testing, bump this shee-ite. Smile


The required testing is clearly outlined by immigration (it is their requirement for registration as a foreign teacher) and there are no surprises.

It is a pee test for caniboids.
It is a blood test for other drug use screening.
It is an X-ray for TB.

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hogwonguy1979



Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

please dont come to Korea even if you are doing weed "for medical reasons" there just look at this recent editorial posted on gusts:

http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2012/03/on-february-20-chungcheong-today-also.html

all we need is another foreigner being busted for the stuff and every other day the rest of us will be having to pee into cups
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ontheway



Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You may want to get yourself tested before you leave for Korea. If you test positive, don't come. Wait until your test is clean before you get on a plane.

When you get here you should find yourself being tested the first week. You have to be tested to get your Alien Registration Card (ARC) and you need to have your ARC to be registered with the local education office (also to be signed up for health insurance and pension). To be a legal teacher you must be registered at the education office within two weeks of your first day at work.

If you test positive in Korea they may give you a chance for another test a few days later, but you could very well find yourself being required to leave with no job, no pay and paying for your own airfare here and back.

If you fail twice, you will certainly find yourself on a quick return flight.
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PatrickGHBusan



Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rollo wrote:
it's the bone marrow test that sucks. The testing of the spinal fluid is a bee sting compared to how they extract the bone marrow.


The full cavity search exam is also pretty tough to go through and no rubber gloves either. Laughing


Seriously OP its a pee test, good on you for stopping early.
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sbp59



Joined: 01 Apr 2009
Location: Somewhere in SK

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ontheway wrote:
You may want to get yourself tested before you leave for Korea. If you test positive, don't come. Wait until your test is clean before you get on a plane.

When you get here you should find yourself being tested the first week. You have to be tested to get your Alien Registration Card (ARC) and you need to have your ARC to be registered with the local education office (also to be signed up for health insurance and pension). To be a legal teacher you must be registered at the education office within two weeks of your first day at work.

If you test positive in Korea they may give you a chance for another test a few days later, but you could very well find yourself being required to leave with no job, no pay and paying for your own airfare here and back.

If you fail twice, you will certainly find yourself on a quick return flight.


The ridiculous thing about Korean government is that drinking 3 or 4 bottles of soju every night is no worries at all. I see drunk ajjoshis get in there cars to drive every night.

I've had taxi drivers drinking, texting, and watching TV while driving.

But, God forbid someone smokes a little pot.

It's not just Korea, ridiculous rules in Countries all over the world on marijuana. I haven't smoked pot in probably 10 years but it's basically harmless. When will common sense be used??

Our world is completely F worded.
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travioso86



Joined: 16 Feb 2012
Location: California

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hogwonguy1979 wrote:
please dont come to Korea even if you are doing weed "for medical reasons" there just look at this recent editorial posted on gusts:

http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2012/03/on-february-20-chungcheong-today-also.html

all we need is another foreigner being busted for the stuff and every other day the rest of us will be having to pee into cups


Not to be a dick, but do you really teach English?

Its sad that they would employ people with questionable English skills, but god forbid you smoke a flower on your free time....
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hogwonguy1979



Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

travioso86 wrote:
hogwonguy1979 wrote:
please dont come to Korea even if you are doing weed "for medical reasons" there just look at this recent editorial posted on gusts:

http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2012/03/on-february-20-chungcheong-today-also.html

all we need is another foreigner being busted for the stuff and every other day the rest of us will be having to pee into cups


Not to be a dick, but do you really teach English?

Its sad that they would employ people with questionable English skills, but god forbid you smoke a flower on your free time....


no YOU are being a dick for even trying to come to Korea given your "medical condition" If you did ANY sort of research on life here, you would know how the Koreans feel about foreign teachers smoking weed any how they generalize an entire group of people for the actions of a few

Every time a person pops positive on a drug test or gets busted, it causes more grief for the ones who are here.

You aint in the states anymore and don't give this stuff "weed isnt as bad as booze bs" you're in Korea where they think weed will ruin their kids and society and it their rules you got to play by.

If you dont like the rules/attitudes here, teach somewhere where its tolerated and dont come here
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travioso86



Joined: 16 Feb 2012
Location: California

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't be mad homie, but learn English for when you do decide to rant on the interwebz.

And in case you really are as bad as I think, and therefore have terrible reading comprehension, I said I wasn't smoking anymore, here or there, so... yeah. I am playing by there rules.

And weed is nothing compared to alcohol as far as societal problems are concerned. No reasonable and intelligent person can successfully argue otherwise. Smile Have a great day.
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

travioso86 wrote:
... but god forbid you smoke a flower on your free time....


At home it would get you a fine if you were caught (red handed).

Here, if someone gets busted and simply reports you as a fellow user you will have the police show up, arrest you, give you a pee test and detain you based on that alone.

Then, provided you have nothing in your possession, on your person, among your possessions and nothing is found in your home, you will simply get deported after a few nights in detention.

IF they find ANYTHING they will take your passport, you will be fired forthwith, you will lose your housing, you will be prosecuted and sentences of 3 years of incarceration are common (with a guilty plea - double when you lose if you plead not guilty).

Your government can't help you.
Your embassy won't help you.
US rules of law do NOT apply.
There is no parole or early release. 3 years is 3 years.

If is not a weed is good/bad, harmful or not issue.

Korea is not the worst for prosecutions either.

Simple use will get you a year in a Thai jail and possession of ANYTHING can get you from 7-20 years of hard time.

Time for the mods to lock this thread.

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travioso86



Joined: 16 Feb 2012
Location: California

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why lock the thread? I'm sure other people would want/need to know these things.

It is just a discussion after all.

And just so I am clear, you will be deported just for being ACCUSED of smoking pot, regardless of whether or not it is true/verifiable? That is kinda sad... and scary.
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schwa



Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ttompatz wrote:

Time for the mods to lock this thread.

Disagree. Reminders of the dire repercussions of dabbling in Korea are a valuable public service.
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Carbon



Joined: 28 Jan 2011

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

schwa wrote:
ttompatz wrote:

Time for the mods to lock this thread.

Disagree. Reminders of the dire repercussions of dabbling in Korea are a valuable public service.


But it always turns into a deeper debate which is completely unnecessary and counter-productive. Everything that needs to be said has been both in this thread and the many, many that have come before it. Make a sticky and ban the topic from being discussed. There is nothing to 'talk' about.
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

travioso86 wrote:
Why lock the thread? I'm sure other people would want/need to know these things.

It is just a discussion after all.

And just so I am clear, you will be deported just for being ACCUSED of smoking pot, regardless of whether or not it is true/verifiable? That is kinda sad... and scary.


There are lots of places in this big wide world where the presumption of innocence until proven guilty does not exist.

Guilty till proven innocent is the rule on more that 1/2 of the planet and the onus is on the accused to prove innocence.

Pee clean and go back to work. Pee positive and go to jail. Do not pass go and do not collect $200.

Get used to it or stay home.

As was said much earlier in this thread you won't be at home, your constitutional rights do not apply, your government can't and won't help you and the rules ARE MUCH different.

Welcome to the big wide world outside the US of A.


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hogwonguy1979



Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I remember a guy who used/dealt here, a friend of his was caught and they went through his cell phone and all is contacts were dragged in for a pee test, guy found out and wound up running out one step ahead of the law

funny thing is last time i heard he was in law school in Ireland
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