Comments on: 2007 Foreigner Drug Statistics Issued

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:56:54 +0000

Hi there - great work on the stats breakdown. Was there any information in your research about punishments and sentencing that was handed down by the KDEA in regard to foreigners caught using and trafficking or just using or just trafficking.

I would like to post some of this information on our website as an advisory for unwitting teachers who are heading over to Korea who may think only casually about having a puff or three.

If you can also provide the site you are referencing this information from I would greatly appreciate the info.

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By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:38:39 +0000

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:14:53 +0000

I don’t think the Korean cops have to really focus to hard on busting foreigners with drugs when the idiots are mailing it to themselves.

By: ChickenHead

ChickenHead — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:13:52 +0000

Silly English “teachers”.

Do your year without bitching, save more cash than you could even get paid back home, when your contract is up tell your director (who you gave no problems to) you need a vacation between contracts, go to SE Asia, smoke/pop/snort/shoot drink and screw on the cheap until your budget runs out, return to Korea, repeat cycle until an early retirement.

It seems so simple.

For the price some of these knuckleheads pay for drugs in Korea, they could hop a weekend flight to SE Asia and become a real junkie for 2 days at least once a month…

…but… no… gotta bring it back to Korea.

But, it could be worse for them. Foreigner drug busts in Dubai are up as well.

“In another case, a 43-year-old man from Middlesex was imprisoned earlier this week for four years after Dubai customs officials used highly sensitive screening equipment to detect 0.003g cannabis in the tread of his shoe. Keith Andrew Brown was stopped in transit from Ethiopia to London last September. The amount of the drug found on his shoe would not be visible to the naked eye and weighs less than a single grain of sugar.”

People who say Korans are crazy just have no perspective.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:11:01 +0000

Do the Corean cops patrol the hiking trails up mountains and the love motels in the countryside, or are these statistics based upon areas with high concentrations of hagwons and USFK bases? (rhetorical question)

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:32:21 +0000

My last posting was for 2006 statistics and then preliminary 2007 statistics through the month of October. The Korean government just recently released their full 2007 drug statistics so I just simply updated the stats with the full 2007 from the government.

The statistics show that the foreign drug problem is mostly a problem with foreigners coming to Korea to teach English. Also interesting is that nearly half the foreign drug crimes comes from people trying to mail themselves drugs. It makes me think this activity has been going on for some time but recently the Korean authorities have gotten very good at detecting it at the airport and are now arresting people. Hopefully they get rid of the foreign drug abusers with the crackdown and the statistic will drop this year.