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I-am-me
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Hermit Kingdom
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| Are English teachers livestock or slaves? The more I read about health checkups the more degrading the whole process becomes. I would like to know how many after doing this will not even have a pension or medical insurance at their hagwon. That would be interesting to know. |
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UncleAlex
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:52 am Post subject: Re: what did you pay for your health exams? |
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| hagwonnewbie wrote: |
| How much money did you pay to do your health tests for the new e-2 requirements? How long did it take? Where did you go? What tests were performed? |
You forgot to ask whether the plastic bags for the stool specimens are free. They may be supplied by Family Mart.  |
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nuthatch
Joined: 21 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:53 am Post subject: |
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Everyone in Asia is X-Ray happy...
...it is not good to have so many x-rays...
...it seems that every place I work (in the past China...and now if I go to Korea) want this x-ray every year!
Did anyone NOT have an x-ray? Is there anyway to get out of it?
What's the purpose? Why can't we do just an old-fashioned TB test? |
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ntwrightsmom
Joined: 19 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:14 am Post subject: |
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passport220
Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do province
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject: Did you have to show your passport to have the medical exam |
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| I want to have the medical done while I am in Seoul. However, I also want to apply for a Thai tourist visa and will have to drop off my passport at the Thai embassy. Did you have to show your passport to have the medical exam done? |
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Zaria32
Joined: 04 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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I've been in Korea for 14 months...during that time I've had 13 chest x-rays. Six of them were for a genunine medical problem; the other 7 were all required for one reason or another.
Twice I've been notified that I was required by NHIC to have a chest x-ray and other tests, and would be fined if I did not comply. In one of those instances by boss was also notified at the same time; in the other, all teachers at the school were required to do it.
Two of them were under the new regs...
I think I've exceeded my lifetime maximum for chest x-rays in 14 months... |
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nuthatch
Joined: 21 Feb 2008
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Thanks, Zaria32, for your info. I am so sorry to hear this.
Just as I suspected.
Hello...has anybody ever heard of RADIATION!!??!! |
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jjk
Joined: 29 Aug 2004
Location: Back in Australia for the time being
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| The medical here in Daejeon cost the school 120,000. I have heard mixed reports on schools paying. It will be a little cheaper now that there isn't a cannabanoid test included. |
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ntwrightsmom
Joined: 19 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Go to the government run clinic at Sindang: 1500 won. |
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hagwonnewbie
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Location: Asia
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| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:05 am Post subject: |
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| I wasn't required to present any ID |
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fadagaski
Joined: 24 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:25 am Post subject: |
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Is there any way to get out of the blood test? I'm fit as a fiddle, don't get me wrong, but I tend to ... pass out at the mere sight of blood. I mean, okay, as a trained First Aider, if you had cut off your leg and were spurting arterial blood, I could just about deal with that. But injections, cuts, blood tests ... not so good for my relationship with the floor.
~Ally~ |
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scorpiocandy
Joined: 27 Feb 2008
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My school paid. It was pretty quick but my boss is pretty clueless when it comes to the Immigration laws. He's really awesome but NOT a businessman at all. So we ended up going to hospitals all over Daegu because he didn't check beforehand where we could have everything done.
I had the following done:
Hearing test
Eye test
Weighed
Height measured
TB X-ray
HIV test
Drug Test (urine)
Took about half hour and I received the results the following day.
They did ask for passport but it was at the Immigration office so they accepted my SA drivers licence |
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cmr
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| ntwrightsmom wrote: |
| Go to the government run clinic at Sindang: 1500 won. |
I went to the one in Gangdong. A "government run clinic" is "보건소" and it's only 1,500 won. Takes a few days to get the results, though. It may be faster with a pivate hospital but definitely much, much more expensive. I did it at a private one someting like 3 years ago and it cost about 50,000 won at the time. |
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ciccone_youth
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| fadagaski wrote: |
Is there any way to get out of the blood test? I'm fit as a fiddle, don't get me wrong, but I tend to ... pass out at the mere sight of blood. I mean, okay, as a trained First Aider, if you had cut off your leg and were spurting arterial blood, I could just about deal with that. But injections, cuts, blood tests ... not so good for my relationship with the floor.
~Ally~ |
no way to get out of it. i'm the same, i was scared as hell, i almost passed out. but don't look when they do it, just cover your eyes, take a deep breath and think about something else. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:41 am Post subject: Re: what did you pay for your health exams? |
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| hagwonnewbie wrote: |
| How much money did you pay to do your health tests for the new e-2 requirements? |
Nothing. My uni paid for it.
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| How long did it take? Where did you go? What tests were performed? |
I went to the local hospital down the road from my apartment. It took about an hour.
Eye check.
Height measured.
Hearing check.
Colour-blindness check.
Blood pressure.
Piss test. (no "security" at all and test could be beaten in any number of ways had I needed to)
Blood test.
Dentist checked my teeth.
Chest x-ray. |
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