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rchristo10
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 Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:56 am Post subject: HIV test rules for foreigners to be eased.. |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/10/117_75193.html
Not sure how to interpret this but man it's got me sort of wondering what they could possibly mean:
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| �Education is considered a very intimate relationship. According to an unofficial survey by the Prime Minister�s Office, the majority of parents wanted solid evidence of their children�s teachers� HIV status,� said an official of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. |
Korea Times Link Above
"Intimate" in this case is just inappropriate and misleading. I honestly do wonder if the parents understand in the literature that HIV problems of "intimacy" refers to sexual intimacy. |
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redaxe
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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Everyone knows that E6 "Entertainer" visas are often used for human trafficking to bring foreign prostitutes into Korea. So now they're not going to make the hookers take HIV tests anymore, but they're still going to make the English teachers take them? Brilliant.
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We�ve decided to ease the rules as HIV is not transmitted through air or water but through human contact most of the time,� ministry official Jeong Eun-gyeong said, explaining the reason behind the revision.
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Is this news to the Korean government? |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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| "We�ve decided to ease the rules as HIV is not transmitted through air or water but through human contact most of the time,� ministry official Jeong Eun-gyeon |
Most of the time? He must mean, when the fan isn't turned on. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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"HIV is not transmitted through air or water but through human contact most of the time"
Welcome to the news 25 years ago, Korea! |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Louis VI wrote: |
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| "We�ve decided to ease the rules as HIV is not transmitted through air or water but through human contact most of the time,� ministry official Jeong Eun-gyeon |
Most of the time? He must mean, when the fan isn't turned on. |
E-2s + fan death = fan AIDS! Hide your kids, hide your wife!  |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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| redaxe wrote: |
| Everyone knows that E6 "Entertainer" visas are often used for human trafficking to bring foreign prostitutes into Korea. So now they're not going to make the hookers take HIV tests anymore, but they're still going to make the English teachers take them? Brilliant.? |
They'll pay for being stupid. |
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sirius black
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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Ignorance about contracting HIV doesn't suprise me one bit but I also suspect that another concern is the amount of sex between teachers and Koreans specifically foreign men and korean women.
Of course they don't realize that a teacher caln be HIV negative when tested on arrival, go to Thailand, Cambo or where ever on holiday bang a hooker and come back with it. and he's not tested again if he is at the same school.
The military tests once a month I heard as well so for all the military bashers on here a korean girl, in theory, is better off with one of them than a teacher who is only tested once. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| sirius black wrote: |
Ignorance about contracting HIV doesn't suprise me one bit but I also suspect that another concern is the amount of sex between teachers and Koreans specifically foreign men and korean women.
Of course they don't realize that a teacher caln be HIV negative when tested on arrival, go to Thailand, Cambo or where ever on holiday bang a hooker and come back with it. and he's not tested again if he is at the same school.
The military tests once a month I heard as well so for all the military bashers on here a korean girl, in theory, is better off with one of them than a teacher who is only tested once. |
The same can be said about Korean men on 'business trips' or 'playing golf' in the Philippines. If you believe what you hear, these fellas don't even like to use condoms... |
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KimchiExplosion
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Nowhere near Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Just follow the Jacob Zuma rules and take a shower after sex, every time. |
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allovertheplace
Joined: 02 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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I vote than workers at hagwons can be classified entertainers and thus miss the test.  |
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sendittheemail
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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So, what the government is telling us is this:
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| There is absolutely no basis for the testing of those on E-2 visas but we will do it anyway because so many of the parents are bigots. |
I, for one, am glad to see that kind of honesty from a government.  |
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ippy
Joined: 25 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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er what it likely means is that youre in contact with their kids on a daily basis and you could potentially transmit the disease due to this proximity. Obviously its not the common cold or anything, but the potential is there. Honestly, mind in the gutter some people...  |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| ippy wrote: |
| er what it likely means is that youre in contact with their kids on a daily basis and you could potentially transmit the disease due to this proximity. Obviously its not the common cold or anything, but the potential is there. Honestly, mind in the gutter some people... |
Perhaps it's transmittable via dong-chim? |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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| ippy wrote: |
| er what it likely means is that youre in contact with their kids on a daily basis and you could potentially transmit the disease due to this proximity. Obviously its not the common cold or anything, but the potential is there. Honestly, mind in the gutter some people... |
Potential of transmitting HIV by being in the same room with their kids? Wow. The mind boggles. |
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