Aug 26, 2015, 7:54 am
Last edit by: Aventine
all thanks to superguy!
You can email your Rx drug questions to the KFDA directly at [email protected]
If you tell them the drugs your prescribed (brand and generic names, if applicable), they'll tell you if they're controlled or not and give you further instructions.
Response time 12-24 hours and could save you from complications, if any upon arrival at ICN.
You can email your Rx drug questions to the KFDA directly at [email protected]
If you tell them the drugs your prescribed (brand and generic names, if applicable), they'll tell you if they're controlled or not and give you further instructions.
Response time 12-24 hours and could save you from complications, if any upon arrival at ICN.
Rx drugs in South Korea - is there a prohibited/controlled list?
Aug 27, 2015, 4:34 pm
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Looking at it from the other way - has anyone known of people having their medications taken off them at the airport? Surely the person at customs will just see its an obvious prescription box with my name on it and carry on... I didn't have any troubles with italy, they didn't even look at the name of the meds...
Aug 27, 2015, 7:28 pm
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Looking at it from the other way - has anyone known of people having their medications taken off them at the airport? Surely the person at customs will just see its an obvious prescription box with my name on it and carry on... I didn't have any troubles with italy, they didn't even look at the name of the meds...
Aug 30, 2015, 5:20 am
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Aug 30, 2015, 7:56 am
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Yeah thats what I'm hoping :-) Its just that their under the banned list! Its the same with Thailand when I checked - you're meant to have a written permission slip, sent by post 2 weeks before you leave and I was fine there. Hopefully just worried over nothing...
Aug 30, 2015, 12:14 pm
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Most times they just let people go through. Hope that's for you too!
Sep 5, 2020, 12:31 pm
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Need info please
Hi I am a seafarer and I am to join a ship in Korea. Now I have a few tablets of tramadol and tapentadol with me plus I also have few pregabalin, modafnil, glimipride and metformin with me...can I go through without any trouble ???