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myateacher
Joined: 27 May 2012
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 Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 3:32 pm Post subject: New medical test requirements? |
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| I just went back for ANOTHER medical test. This one included more drug checks and 5 viles of blood. Also, my boss mentioned some sort of sexuality test. Does anyone know what that is? A pedo test? I've been here for two years and have never heard of that before. |
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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 4:21 pm Post subject: Re: New medical test requirements? |
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| myateacher wrote: |
| I just went back for ANOTHER medical test. This one included more drug checks and 5 viles of blood. Also, my boss mentioned some sort of sexuality test. Does anyone know what that is? A pedo test? I've been here for two years and have never heard of that before. |
A homosexuality test? |
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sml7285
Joined: 26 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 4:43 pm Post subject: Re: New medical test requirements? |
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| myateacher wrote: |
| I just went back for ANOTHER medical test. This one included more drug checks and 5 viles of blood. Also, my boss mentioned some sort of sexuality test. Does anyone know what that is? A pedo test? I've been here for two years and have never heard of that before. |
You sure it wasn't a mistranslation and the boss meant an STD test? |
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carpetdope
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd be more concerned about the "vile" blood. |
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ttompatz
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Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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They have blood tests to check for homosexuality and pedophilia?
Wow... have I missed out on a lot of new research lately.
Screens for drug/alchohol use/abuse, contagious diseases (TB), and STDs.
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Ballerina2012
Joined: 17 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| OMG! LOL, I am already stressed enough about this damn drug test and now they keep adding more! GG! |
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myateacher
Joined: 27 May 2012
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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Well obviously it's not a blood test, the way she described it briefly I felt like it would be one of those tests they give to prison inmates to see if they are excited by certain images. Yes, it seems totally insane, and it doesn't make sense. My boss just seemed very serious when she told me about it. I'm a girl anyway, I don't know how that would be done... with a brain activity scanner? Okay that IS ridiculous i admit. She just said it so seriously saying it was new to try to catch sexual predators.
I thought it was crazy, that's just why i asked... |
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Reggie
Joined: 21 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Is it like a polygraph, or do they actually look at the English teacher's genitals to see if there's an erect *beep* or wet vagina? It all sounds so far out to be true, but since we're talking about South Koreans interacting with foreigners, it's actually within the realm of possibility so I have to ask. |
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Hokie21
Joined: 01 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| I'm sure there was just something lost in translation. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| Ballerina2012 wrote: |
| OMG! LOL, I am already stressed enough about this damn drug test and now they keep adding more! GG! |
It is actually a LOT easier than the tests that someone trying to get a visa to the US has to go through.
Pee in a cup, a few vials of blood and a chest x-ray and you are done.
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bojangles
Joined: 19 Feb 2011
Location: south jeolla
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 7:25 am Post subject: what the... |
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If they wanted to randomly search your apartment,... would you let them....?
Why would you ever let them randomly search your body...?
...pee in a cup....indeed...!!! |
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crisdean
Joined: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Seoul Special City
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: what the... |
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| bojangles wrote: |
If they wanted to randomly search your apartment,... would you let them....?
Why would you ever let them randomly search your body...?
...pee in a cup....indeed...!!! |
got something to hide? |
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bojangles
Joined: 19 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 11:03 pm Post subject: Re: what the... |
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| got something to hide? |
...beside the point. After the initial health check to enter the country, and without any reasonable suspicion that there is a problem, additional "health" screening is an invasion of privacy, pure & simple, as well as a waste of time & money.
The supposed "health" check, also, paradoxically, presents certain risks to your health in the form of radiation from x-rays and any mistakes that might be made on the part of incompetent or lazy hospital staff.
It also operates on the wrong-headed principle that a whole sub-set of people are guilty until proven innocent, which also, in turn, heightens misunderstandings, fears & tensions.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this whole "mandatory" process is the result of some medical business lobby drumming up another revenue stream in the name of national security. Thirty thousand people at 100,000 won a pop, -health checking is good business!
But I'm sure none of this would apply to you, because...you've got nothing to hide! |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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| bojangles wrote: |
1) After the initial health check to enter the country, and without any reasonable suspicion that there is a problem, additional "health" screening is an invasion of privacy, pure & simple, as well as a waste of time & money.
The supposed "health" check, also, paradoxically, presents certain risks to your health in the form of radiation from x-rays and any mistakes that might be made on the part of incompetent or lazy hospital staff.
2) It also operates on the wrong-headed principle that a whole sub-set of people are guilty until proven innocent, which also, in turn, heightens misunderstandings, fears & tensions.
3) I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this whole "mandatory" process is the result of some medical business lobby drumming up another revenue stream in the name of national security. Thirty thousand people at 100,000 won a pop, -health checking is good business!
But I'm sure none of this would apply to you, because...you've got nothing to hide! |
1) So is random drug testing in the US but it is regularly done. Korea is just following the leader of the "free world".
2) More than 1/2 the planet follows the civil law system with guilty till proven innocent is the norm. Hardly qualifies as a great injustice (unless of course you are American).
3) In a national medical system, $3 million is hardly a pizz in the bucket (equal to about the daily budget for 1 large national or university hospital). There won't be any hospitals bending over backward to get on the list to do them.
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bojangles
Joined: 19 Feb 2011
Location: south jeolla
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:35 am Post subject: what the... |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| bojangles wrote: |
1) After the initial health check to enter the country, and without any reasonable suspicion that there is a problem, additional "health" screening is an invasion of privacy, pure & simple, as well as a waste of time & money.
The supposed "health" check, also, paradoxically, presents certain risks to your health in the form of radiation from x-rays and any mistakes that might be made on the part of incompetent or lazy hospital staff.
2) It also operates on the wrong-headed principle that a whole sub-set of people are guilty until proven innocent, which also, in turn, heightens misunderstandings, fears & tensions.
3) I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this whole "mandatory" process is the result of some medical business lobby drumming up another revenue stream in the name of national security. Thirty thousand people at 100,000 won a pop, -health checking is good business!
But I'm sure none of this would apply to you, because...you've got nothing to hide! |
1) So is random drug testing in the US but it is regularly done. Korea is just following the leader of the "free world".
2) More than 1/2 the planet follows the civil law system with guilty till proven innocent is the norm. Hardly qualifies as a great injustice (unless of course you are American).
3) In a national medical system, $3 million is hardly a pizz in the bucket (equal to about the daily budget for 1 large national or university hospital). There won't be any hospitals bending over backward to get on the list to do them.
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1/ Teachers are not randomly or routinely drug tested in the US.
2/ Sorry, but I don't follow your argument here.
3/ Not sure about your math, but there are also many subsidiary agencies involved besides the hospitals, like the test kit companies and blood/urine analysis labs, etc. Diagnosis is Big Business. |
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