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How recent do the AIDS tests have to be?

 
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RJjr



Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Turning on a Lamp

PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:39 am    Post subject: How recent do the AIDS tests have to be? Reply with quote

I went to the Health Department a couple of hours ago and got tested. I'll get the results in two weeks. At what point do the results expire for Korean Immigration Department purposes?
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Mi Yum mi



Joined: 28 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They should make foreigners take an AIDS test every 6 months. Isn't that how long it takes to show up in your system and be detected?

This way they can get those dirty disease infested waegs out of the country.
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polonius



Joined: 05 Jun 2004

PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The test must be done once you get in country, so not recent, but rather in the future once you are here.
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Zaria32



Joined: 04 Dec 2007

PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm no expert on the new E-2 regs (to tell you the truth, I'm not sure anyone is, not even Immigration or Ministry of Justice!) but I believe you
have to have your AIDS test in Korea.

Perhaps you did, but your post sounded as if you're out of the country.
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RJjr



Joined: 17 Aug 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, ok. Thanks for the info.

Would the medical check be done in Korea also?
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shaunew



Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Calgary

PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mi Yum mi wrote:
Sounds like somebody has AIDS. Dirty waegookin.


It's funny how alot of people come here with no history of STD's. Sleep with one or more (depends how lucky you are) Korean girls/boys. End up getting a STD. But the Koreans are 100% sure we are dirty.

Sparkling.
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Ut videam



Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do

PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RJjr wrote:
Oh, ok. Thanks for the info.

Would the medical check be done in Korea also?

Yes. In order to acquire your visa, you must complete the "E-2 Applicant's Health Statement" form. It's just a bunch of yes/no questions that you check off, sign, and submit to Immi with your other documents.

After you arrive in Korea, you get the medical check done (including the HIV and drug tests) and submit the results when you apply for your alien registration card. This must be done no later than 90 days after arrival in country�but generally you'll want to do it as soon as possible, as it's a prerequisite for getting health insurance coverage, etc.
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Chris Kwon



Joined: 23 Jan 2008
Location: North Korea

PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mi Yum mi wrote:
They should make foreigners take an AIDS test every 6 months. Isn't that how long it takes to show up in your system and be detected?

This way they can get those dirty disease infested waegs out of the country.

Sounds like this guy has something to prove.
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Roch



Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mi Yum mi wrote:
They should make foreigners take an AIDS test every 6 months. Isn't that how long it takes to show up in your system and be detected?

This way they can get those dirty disease infested waegs out of the country.


Thank you.

Are not your kind more of a global threat in terms of A.I.D.S. given that your kind has propped up prostitution to absurdly high levels of your respective national economies?

People like you should get tested for the presense of H.I.V. right away -don't you think?!

Sincerely yours,

R
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Mi Yum mi



Joined: 28 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chris Kwon wrote:
Mi Yum mi wrote:
They should make foreigners take an AIDS test every 6 months. Isn't that how long it takes to show up in your system and be detected?

This way they can get those dirty disease infested waegs out of the country.

Sounds like this guy has something to prove.


Or it's called sarcasm. You ever talk to a Korean about sex? Koreans are for Koreans only. Foreigners are dirty people who hump each other in the streets back in their native country.

All sorts of B.S.

Even if someone had AIDS...wtf does it have to do with teaching?
Maybe if you were a PE teacher teaching martial arts.....but teaching English?
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bassexpander



Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is an old clinic in Itaewon, located across the street from the Goldfish bar. They can do a basic blood test that includes an HIV check for 30,000 won. Not sure what else needs to be in the blood test, but it's where I went for my yearly blood test in the past.

They got the results in a day. Not like back home, where I had to wait 2 weeks!
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plus99



Joined: 30 Dec 2007

PostPosted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 2:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i love humping girls in the streets
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thepeel



Joined: 08 Aug 2004

PostPosted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 4:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mi Yum mi wrote:
They should make foreigners take an AIDS test every 6 months. Isn't that how long it takes to show up in your system and be detected?

This way they can get those dirty disease infested waegs out of the country.


Well, it is actually an HIV test, and they are 99.99% accurate from 3 months on if an antibody test is done.

It is a perfectly reasonable request to be made. For my Singaporean visa I had to provide one and for my American non-immigrant visa I had to provide one. TB chest x-rays too (in both cases).

In fact, the antibody test is so quick and painless (20 minutes to results and all one needs is a finger pr.ick) that making them part of any medial checkup is likely a good idea.

You seem to be another angry kyopo. I bet you're from a lower income area of Los Angeles. Right? Maybe... just another day in Korea?
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Al Khidr



Joined: 27 Nov 2007

PostPosted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:26 pm    Post subject: Kimchi cures all Reply with quote

I haven't seen the form, but I've heard the form asks if you have or have had HIV in the past. Check "have had" and then say it was cured after eating kimchi just as your case of SARS and bird flu were.
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matthews_world



Joined: 15 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't they accept them from your home country? Taiwan does.

Seems like a waste of money if one flew here and found out they were positive.
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