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acrane86 · Joined: 04 Jul 2012

If I have syphilis will I be able to get my ARC or will I be deported?

This is the hangul beside syphilis test on my health check.

무 반 응

I only ask because this is the only different hangul beside a test. All the others (aids,heoin,cannabinoids etc) all have the same hangul beside them which means negative. I am sexually safe and have no signs of the disease, but this still worries me. Any help with the translation/immigration knowledge would be helpful.

Thanks.

nora · Joined: 14 Apr 2012

Do you KNOW you have it, or are you guessing you have it because the words are different next to that one and not the others? Did the doctor actually tell you you have it?

I ask because your hangeul translates to "No Response." Is it possible you're a drugged out stoner who doesn't have syphilis?

If you've got it, get it taken care of. It's not incurable you know. Unless you want to go the Al Capone route...

acrane86 · Joined: 04 Jul 2012

No. I don't know. I have had unprotected sex once in the last year and it was like 4 months ago. I have no signs or symptoms of the disease. What worries me is the hangul together translates to no response. But if you look at each one individually the 무 can mean acute periostitis, which is a sign of syphilis. The 반 can mean ban. And the 응 can mean yes. These are according to google translate. So, looking at each one individually scares me, but all together it means they didn't test for it (no response.) I'm just worried about being deported if I go to immigration.

acrane86 · Joined: 04 Jul 2012

And no I'm not a drugged out stoner. And the doctor didn't tell me I had syphilis. I just went and picked up the medical test form from the hospital. I didn't look at it until I was gone from there.

Yes the only reason I'm worried is because the hangul is different from all the other test.

nora · Joined: 14 Apr 2012

Go back, talk to the doc. Will you get kicked out? Doubtful. It's treatable. You've got some time before you have to apply for the ARC, so if you DO have it, get it taken care of, get a new clean test, then there's nothing to worry about.

Also, perhaps it's a warning thing. I don't know squat about syphilis, but a quick look for periostitis shows that you can have it from other things. 무 반응 COULD mean "periostitis reaction", as in they detected that in your system, and because it's related they made a note. Just like tuberculosis - if you HAD it at one point OR if you had the vaccine (or maybe it was hepatitis?) it would show up on the test, and there is no way to tell if it was disease or vaccine.

I find it hard to believe that they would just let you take the results without giving you some meds.

Anyway, take it back to the doc, find out.

viciousdinosaur · Joined: 30 Apr 2012

OH MY GOD!!!! Seriously, where do people like you come from?

You test positive for syphilis and you're first thought is "Oh,no, I hope I don't lose my HAGWON JOB!"

What about, "Oh my god I HAVE SYPHILIS!!!?"

Jesus Christ people.

sirius black · Joined: 04 Jun 2010

My guess is its not. The hosptial wouldn't let you leave untreated. Its possibly but doubtful.
The good news its treatable. I can understand the primary concern being the job. You can treat the syphilis but if you lose your job and have to go home or look for another job i can see that being the more traumatic.

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

Relax, you don't have syphilis. 무반응 means "non-reactive", which means that you did not test positive for the disease.

http://endic.naver.com/search.nhn?dicQuery=%EB%AC%B4%EB%B0%98%EC%9D%91&x=0&y=0&query=%EB%AC%B4%EB%B0%98%EC%9D%91&target=endic&ie=utf8&query_utf=&isOnlyViewEE=N

Jake_Kim · Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Location: Seoul

newb · Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Location: Korea

Korean media will pick up on this thread and will report "Most Foreign Teachers have SYPHILIS."

MigukCowboy · Joined: 10 Sep 2012

Wear a condom fellas.

You don't wanna get the dickburn from them nasty hoes.

Unless it's a hot ajumma with curly hair. Then I just go crazy.

Ranman · Joined: 18 Aug 2012

viciousdinosaur · Joined: 30 Apr 2012

Koharski · Mod Team Joined: 20 Jul 2009

MigukCowboy's post is an example of a post that will get you banned. There is no room for posts like that here at Dave's.

On that note, I believe the OP has received the information they needed and there is no further reason to let the usual suspect turn this thread into a "lets see who can post the most juvenile swill."

Koharski