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r122925
Joined: 02 Jun 2011
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 Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:13 am Post subject: More foreigners busted for drugs |
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Saw this in the news today...
http://www.nocutnews.co.kr/Show.asp?IDX=2062573
Don't have time for a full translation, but...
The funniest thing is definitely the picture. Article says these guys were distributing cannabis, picture is of a white powder substance.
Those arrested include 13 hagwon teachers, a hip-hop singer, and an American university professor. Apaprently they were distributing cannabis both smuggled from Canada, and some grown in Korea.
Perhaps most concerning is a quoute from the police at the very end. They say the drug tests for foreign teachers are ineffective because they are tested once when they arrive in Korea and then are not tested again.
What's next? Monthly drug tests for E-2 holders? |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:57 am Post subject: Re: More foreigners busted for drugs |
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| r122925 wrote: |
The funniest thing is definitely the picture. |
its amazing what a bag of talcum powder fetches these days.
Seriously though anyone dealing cannabis here is a first class idiot.
Once again...another result of immi getting rid of all the old korea hands and importing a billion inexperienced newbies fresh out the halls of residence. |
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UlsanBoy
Joined: 19 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:08 am Post subject: |
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so much for cannabis not being addictive, if they sold it to Koreans they are going down for three years at least.  |
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fosterman
Joined: 16 Nov 2011
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:09 am Post subject: Re: More foreigners busted for drugs |
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| r122925 wrote: |
Perhaps most concerning is a quoute from the police at the very end. They say the drug tests for foreign teachers are ineffective because they are tested once when they arrive in Korea and then are not tested again.
What's next? Monthly drug tests for E-2 holders? |
so I guess this policeman thinks Every foreign teacher in Korea is a drug smoking criminal? wow generalize much!?
Also I think the rule of Smoking cannabis shouldn't be illegal.
growing, importing, distribution yes,
but urine tests. come on... HELL NO.
teachers who are raided and caught with nothing should be let go, hair samples and urine samples should not be used to punish someone.
the Korean police are catching teachers who have returned on vacation, or have smoked once at a party or something and then arresting them or demanding they dob someone in so they can arrest someone else.
This is all for promotion for the policeman!
urine tests, blood tests, what ever it takes to get a conviction.
anyway with laws like these and power the police have and the no rights we have.
It's best to avoid those drugs. plenty of prescription drugs which are legal in this country to get you high people. stay away from the weed! go see your doctor" Like deepak chopra calls them " LEGAL PILL PUSHERS"
there are so many to chose from it's not funny!
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:24 am Post subject: Re: More foreigners busted for drugs |
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| fosterman wrote: |
| r122925 wrote: |
Perhaps most concerning is a quoute from the police at the very end. They say the drug tests for foreign teachers are ineffective because they are tested once when they arrive in Korea and then are not tested again.
What's next? Monthly drug tests for E-2 holders? |
so I guess this policeman thinks Every foreign teacher in Korea is a drug smoking criminal? wow generalize much!?
Also I think the rule of Smoking cannabis shouldn't be illegal.
growing, importing, distribution yes,
but urine tests. come on... HELL NO.
teachers who are raided and caught with nothing should be let go, hair samples and urine samples should not be used to punish someone.
the Korean police are catching teachers who have returned on vacation, or have smoked once at a party or something and then arresting them or demanding they dob someone in so they can arrest someone else.
This is all for promotion for the policeman!
urine tests, blood tests, what ever it takes to get a conviction.
anyway with laws like these and power the police have and the no rights we have.
It's best to avoid those drugs. plenty of prescription drugs which are legal in this country to get you high people. stay away from the weed! go see your doctor" Like deepak chopra calls them " LEGAL PILL PUSHERS"
there are so many to chose from it's not funny!
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:29 am Post subject: |
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This just happens from time to time...too bad for these guys.
Then again, anyone dumb enough to import and sell drugs in a country with such draconian drug laws has to be a bit of an idiot....
Mandatory viewing for anyone wishing to travel abroad or live abroad: midnight express (old movie but heck it rams home the point). |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:48 am Post subject: |
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Sure glad I'm not in Korea. I can see mandatory monthly drug tests in the offing.
I don't do drugs and I don't feel sorry for anyone foolish enough to sell them in Korea,
but I do feel sorry for the average ESLer who will have to bear the brunt of the knee-jerk reaction that's sure to come. |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:48 am Post subject: Re: More foreigners busted for drugs |
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| r122925 wrote: |
The funniest thing is definitely the picture. Article says these guys were distributing cannabis, picture is of a white powder substance.
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Ah Korean media. I can't tell if it's laziness or stupidity. I'm guessing they naver searched for a random picture of drugs and used the first one they saw. Also note the title of the article. "Again" Like this happens sooo often. |
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ssuprnova
Joined: 17 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:34 am Post subject: Re: More foreigners busted for drugs |
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| r122925 wrote: |
| What's next? Monthly drug tests for E-2 holders? |
Annual drug tests are mandatory in Gyeonggi-do.
I just dropped 120K this week to prove that I'm not a fiend. Out of my own pocket, of course, because med. insurance does not cover drug tests.
Never you mind that in December I had a full physical exam that Korean teachers have to take biannually. It's the same as the one for foreigners, except it's free and they don't test your blood/urine for drugs.
Oh well 6 months left. |
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Zyzyfer
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Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:02 am Post subject: |
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| I'm waiting for Steelrails to pop in and link this to scooter deaths somehow. |
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bbud656
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| Annual drug tests are mandatory in Gyeonggi-do. |
Is this an immigration thing or a Office of Education thing? I havent got a medical check or a drug test in like 18 months and no one is breathing down my neck about it. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:29 am Post subject: |
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yee haw , fun fun fun.
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20120217000501
Alleging widespread marijuana smoking among foreign teachers, the police said the country needs a more thorough system to identify illegal hemp use among native English-speaking teachers here.
�We plan to further broaden our investigation as there are assumed to be more hemp-circulation rings involving native teachers (of English),� a police official said.
I guess they'll be hauling all the NET's in the PS system into the education
offices for "special meetings" again. Whoo hooo. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| That really is too bad. |
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thebektionary
Joined: 11 May 2011
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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Why would anyone even WANT to smoke weed in Korea? I would be so ridiculously paranoid that it wouldn't even be worth it.
And I'm someone who NEVER gets paranoid typically.
This isn't to say that I don't find the East Asian demon-ification of marijuana to be stupid. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Zyzyfer wrote: |
| I'm waiting for Steelrails to pop in and link this to scooter deaths somehow. |
Well I was going to link it to cutting ahead in line, but scooter deaths will do.
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| This isn't to say that I don't find the East Asian demon-ification of marijuana to be stupid. |
Yes and no. There was the whole opium thing 100 years back and since then Asian societies have been pretty leery about foreigners and drugs.
Can you blame them considering the havoc that wrought?
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| The funniest thing is definitely the picture. Article says these guys were distributing cannabis, picture is of a white powder substance. |
Not only that, we aren't talking a little 8-ball. That's some weight there...
To bad it latter comes back as baking powder seized from some foodie teacher's pantry. Maybe they were making brownies.
I bet the KCops find its baking powder and conclude its somehow used to make the weed more potent, like crack or something.
Actually what's scary is that I can totally see that.... |
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