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Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

I just did my official Kangsangnamdo medical check, which required my CT (I should say waegook handler - it's not like we actually co-teach) and I make a day of travelling to Changwon and visiting the approved hospital. Everything seemed fairly standard until wel got to the urine test. The guy at a counter gave me a little paper coffee cup with a USP code label on it and two little test tubes with caps. Then he pointed at towards the public toilets 50 metres down the corridor and told me to come back with some in each container. I could have brought along a container of anyone's urine and just poured it in there.

Then when I came back he was gone and my CT motioned for me just to leave it on the counter. So we're sitting there waiting as I'm watching a cup and two tubes of my urine sitting on a hospital counter in a lobby along with some other tubes of urine. People were coming and going and for a while there was no staff around. I could have dumped someone else's urine into my tubes or poured contaminants into other people's urine. Then the guy from the front desk returned and told me to put the cup of urine in a refridgerator in the lobby and the tubes in a wrack on top of it.

Maybe they also test the blood sample they took for drugs? If not, it must be the most cheatable drugs test in the world. If any druggies are worried about the test, just get a Kangsangnamdo public school job, have your test at their approved hospital, and make sure the person you borrow a jar a urine from isn't pregnant.

diablo3 · Joined: 11 Sep 2004

Sounds typical about a country which is lax in safety, security and many other things.

I just hope no one made you pay for it. I never did.

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

They gave me two strips and told me to pee on them in the bathroom and then come back. I had two little containers , but those were just for holding them. It took me like five minutes to get the water flowing. In that time 2 other people had entered the washroom. I could have had a friend pee on them easily .

Easter Clark · Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong

Yeah, you'd think they would pay more attention to one's bodily fluids. I had to have my blood drawn twice because they lost my sample! Mad

My Korean girlfriend said "That's common!" Shocked

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

Korea, a land where no-one's in control of their urine.

Sorry, just taking the piss.

Looks like they're making a piss-poor job if it.

Rob'sdad · Joined: 12 May 2008 Location: Seoul

diablo3 · Joined: 11 Sep 2004

that is a necessity sometimes, what they do with it is up to them.

KYC · Joined: 11 May 2006

isn't that the norm for a urine test in Korea?

Granted, back home it's not as lax but it's not as if someone actually stands in front of you and make you pee.

I am disappointed with their "nurses." I had to have my blood drawn..and it took her a good 30 minutes to do it. She couldn't locate a vein and just kept pullign and sticking the needle in the arm Crying or Very sad

Golem · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Location: Seoul

I hadn't thought about that but I suppose your right. It would be incredibly easy to pass a drug test in this country when administered like that.

Dome Vans · Guest

They just gave me a little stick to pee on in the toilets. Then bring it back and it changes colours on some various bits. I enjoyed walking back through the waiting room with a stick with my urine on, waving it about.

The 'nurse' gave me a f*king massive bruise when she took blood, I had it for about a week. It's a pretty new doctors that I go to, but sometimes I'm a little suspect with the hygiene.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

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

Yup... same thing happened to me at the largest hospital in a suburb of Seoul. Leave your pee in a test-tube above the urinal. You could borrow pee from any tube there.

KYC · Joined: 11 May 2006

cruisemonkey · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:10 am Post subject:

Same here - a paper coffee cup (no lid) just left on the shelf with others.

However, this being K-land it didn't surprise me in the least. I spent ten days in the hospital a couple of years ago and would stop toddlers playing with used hypodermic needles left out in an open box on the counter at the nurses' station Rolling Eyes

... nurses wiping up blood with toilet tissue - no gloves.

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

Some guy crapped in a paper cup and just left it there, steaming.