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ca86108
Joined: 04 Jan 2010
Location: Seoul (Geumcheon-Gu)
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 Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:50 pm Post subject: alcohol testing for work? |
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On the health statement it says that we will be tested for alcohol and drugs when we arrive in Korea. I am leaving in a couple of days and my buddies want to go out and have a drink with me before I leave.
But I am worried this will show up in my blood. How long does it take to leave your blood system?> |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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Depending on your gender and body weight, it takes an hour for your body to eliminate one standard drink.
You won't be tested 5 minutes after you step off the plane. So, you are worrying about nothing. Go get hammered with your buddies. |
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ca86108
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| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| I am reading it takes 80 hours to leave your system????? and do they test your liver for enzymes to see if you drink a lot? |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe if you go on a massive bender, you might have trace amounts 80 hours later.
They don't test your liver function in the VISA medical. There is a general medical you do after a couple of years that tests that sort of stuff. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| HONESTLY, I have never met anyone in Korea who cared about alcohol as far as not getting a job. Drugs? Yeah, that's a BIG deal. |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| wylies99 wrote: |
| HONESTLY, I have never met anyone in Korea who cared about alcohol as far as not getting a job. Drugs? Yeah, that's a BIG deal. |
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egrog1717
Joined: 12 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:42 am Post subject: |
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| Senior wrote: |
Maybe if you go on a massive bender, you might have trace amounts 80 hours later.
They don't test your liver function in the VISA medical. There is a general medical you do after a couple of years that tests that sort of stuff. |
Yes they do (test your liver funciton for your visa medical)...
They were convinced that I had hep C based on my liver enzyme test, despite no other symptoms and my having had the vaccine in the 7th grade...
Forced me to have an ultrasound done to prove that I had a fatty liver (4 years of university drinking will do that, along with being drunk for 2 of the 3 days before the test LOL... Oddly enough my liver function was 100x better when I went for my second visa medical a year later! It's a soju miracle!) |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| egrog1717 wrote: |
| Senior wrote: |
Maybe if you go on a massive bender, you might have trace amounts 80 hours later.
They don't test your liver function in the VISA medical. There is a general medical you do after a couple of years that tests that sort of stuff. |
Yes they do (test your liver funciton for your visa medical)...
They were convinced that I had hep C based on my liver enzyme test, despite no other symptoms and my having had the vaccine in the 7th grade...
Forced me to have an ultrasound done to prove that I had a fatty liver (4 years of university drinking will do that, along with being drunk for 2 of the 3 days before the test LOL... Oddly enough my liver function was 100x better when I went for my second visa medical a year later! It's a soju miracle!) |
ㅋㅋ. Ok. I don't remember it being on the VISA medical I took. Somehow I have liver function in the top 2nd percentile, despite having drinking habits similar to yours. I suspect the test for liver function might be wildly inaccurate.
I know it's on the general medical you take every 3 years as a PS teacher. My co-teach got great merriment out of pointing out I had a third of the green bar filled for dementia (don't ask me how they measure it), he shut his face when I pointed out his high, cholesterol despite him admonishing me every day to finish my rice. |
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hagwonnewbie
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Location: Asia
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| I think they should test teachers for down's syndrome. |
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VFRinterceptor
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| Senior wrote: |
Depending on your gender and body weight, it takes an hour for your body to eliminate one standard drink.
You won't be tested 5 minutes after you step off the plane. So, you are worrying about nothing. Go get hammered with your buddies. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| How do they do the liver test? |
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dorian_gray
Joined: 04 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| egrog1717 wrote: |
They were convinced that I had hep C based on my liver enzyme test, despite no other symptoms and my having had the vaccine in the 7th grade...
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Ummm, unless there's been some major medical breakthrough in the last 24 hours, there isn't a vaccine for Hepatitis C, just A and B.
With that said, I know that they do check your liver enzyme function on the e2 medical check ~ however, as others have noted, you won't need to do that immediately (I think you have like over a month to get that done after arriving in Korea). |
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conrad2
Joined: 05 Nov 2009
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| Troglodyte wrote: |
| How do they do the liver test? |
Repeated anal probing. |
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Whitey Otez
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: The suburbs of Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Troglodyte wrote: |
| How do they do the liver test? |
Enzyme counts in your blood sample.
And the probing. |
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Sadebugo1
Joined: 11 May 2003
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| Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 5:11 am Post subject: Re: alcohol testing for work? |
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| ca86108 wrote: |
On the health statement it says that we will be tested for alcohol and drugs when we arrive in Korea. I am leaving in a couple of days and my buddies want to go out and have a drink with me before I leave.
But I am worried this will show up in my blood. How long does it take to leave your blood system?> |
If anything, you'll be forced to imbibe copious amounts of alcohol in Korea. Perhaps, if the test comes up negative, this alerts them to your teetotaller status and will justify sending you back home!
Sadebugo
http://travldawrld.blogspot.com/ |
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