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JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Assume:

Korean Immigration law required it.

Only foreign teachers were subject to it.

Your employer would pay for it.

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Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

Given the fact that it would apply only to foreign teacher's, I'd say no. Game over, time to move on.

Thunndarr · Joined: 30 Sep 2003

I'd do it, but then I'd be ostracized as "the square" or "the potential narc" by all my pot-smoking Korean co-workers.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

I'd never smoke herb in Korea, but I can't say the same for when i'm on vacation.

Marijuana stays in your system for about a month, so one can concievably smoke up in Cambodia and then come back to Korea and test positive a few weeks later. That's b.s.

Plus I really haven't looked for it, but I would think that drugs are quit hard to find in the ROK. Thus a law like this would be yet another example reactionary misguided policy by a government that wants to be the Hub of Asia.

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

I see no problem with drug testing in any industry and would do it without hesitation.

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

never. as long as i'm sober at work, it's none of anybody's damned business.

besides you can't peetest for ridiculous alcohol abuse, and that's the main problem in this country.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

yesnoyesyesno · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

i would do it in a second. i personally like korea's drug laws. i hate drugs and look at drug dealers/ users with disgust, instinctively. no you are not cool because you smoke pot/crack you FOOL

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

Who's the fool?

When you lump crack with marijuana it shows that you have know idea what you're talking about. Both are completely different drugs.

I don't know or have heard of a single person dying from pot, but the same cannot be said for cocain or for that matter alcohol which kills so many more lives than your so called illegal drugs.

Bloody hypocracy makes me sick.

Really man, you are so misinformed and are really limiting your perspective on things. You're ignorant and as a result a part of the problem.

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

re:cursive · Joined: 04 Jan 2006

Tough question...

I'd say that if I was still in my home country and became aware of the fact that a drug test was necessary it might turn me off the whole idea of coming to Korea. Not because I would fail the test, but because I would see it is a negative mark on the country/culture I was considering moving to. Especially considering that at that point I really did not know too much about Korean culture and Korea was by no means the only option for working overseas. I'd consider it a bad sign if any country tested one group of people for something so inconsequential. If they had mandatory tests to check that foreign teachers regularly washed behind their ears I'd feel the same way.

Now that I am here I'm not really sure what I'd do...I might submit to keep my job but would definetly have problems with the concept.

Homer · Guest

For teachers working with kids....sure.

As for Korea's drug laws...I kind of agree with them.

Lumping pot with crack is indeed silly but both are still drugs. You may not die from pot use but you sure can ruin your life with it.....

Moldy Rutabaga · Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Location: Ansan, Korea

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jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

Puts me in a bind. Dead set against the state doing it, but I support the right of employers to hire the kind of people they want and if that means drug free, so be it. However, I think there is more of a risk from alcoholics working with kids (and god knows there are a heap of them here) than potheads.