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Ed Provencher
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 Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:50 am Post subject: KNHIP Enrollment Timeline |
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| What is the required timeline for employers to enroll teachers into the Korean National Healthcare Insurance Plan? |
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ttompatz
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Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject: Re: KNHIP Enrollment Timeline |
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| Ed Provencher wrote: |
| What is the required timeline for employers to enroll teachers into the Korean National Healthcare Insurance Plan? |
You should be enrolled shortly AFTER you get your ARC.
Most public schools will have you enrolled within a week or 2 after.
MOST hakwons won't enroll you until long after you have been hounding them or until you gave up and went to NHIC and tried to do it yourself and found out that you couldn't.
There is NO OFFICIAL timeline (as in WHEN you must be enrolled) but you are responsible for the premiums backdated to your entry to Korea.
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Ed Provencher
Joined: 15 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject: Re: KNHIP Enrollment Timeline |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| Ed Provencher wrote: |
| What is the required timeline for employers to enroll teachers into the Korean National Healthcare Insurance Plan? |
You should be enrolled shortly AFTER you get your ARC.
Most public schools will have you enrolled within a week or 2 after.
MOST hakwons won't enroll you until long after you have been hounding them or until you gave up and went to NHIC and tried to do it yourself and found out that you couldn't.
There is NO OFFICIAL timeline (as in WHEN you must be enrolled) but you are responsible for the premiums backdated to your entry to Korea.
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What is the timeline for receiving an ARC? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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You are required by law to have it within 90 days of your entry.
You CAN get it within a week of your arrival (if you have your medical right away). |
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Ed Provencher
Joined: 15 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
You are required by law to have it within 90 days of your entry.
You CAN get it within a week of your arrival (if you have your medical right away). |
Then the first big step in getting enrolled in the KNHIP is the medical exam, which is under the control of the teacher with respect to getting to an appropriate hospital and passing the tests.
The second factor is filing for the ARC, but this requires some paperwork from the school for the teacher to take to the immi office. I recall taking paperwork other than my medical with me to immi. What was that?
The third factor is how long the school takes to submit the remaining paperwork, and then turnaround time from KNHIP.
Anything missing?
Is it resonable to assume one could get their medical within their first week in Korea and be enrolled in KNHIP by the end of the fourth week? |
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Ut videam
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:52 am Post subject: |
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| Ed Provencher wrote: |
| The second factor is filing for the ARC, but this requires some paperwork from the school for the teacher to take to the immi office. I recall taking paperwork other than my medical with me to immi. What was that? |
Besides the medical, the following are needed for foreigner registration:- Application form (available from Immi or download from http://www.immigration.go.kr/HP/IMM/imm_forms/image/resi_1.pdf to fill out in advance)
- A copy of the school's business registration certificate (Korean: 사업자등록증)
- 2 color ID photos (3 x 4 cm)
- 10,000 won for the fee (plus an additional 4 or 5천 if you want to have it sent back by courier rather than make a second trip to Immi to pick it up yourself)
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Ed Provencher wrote: |
| ttompatz wrote: |
You are required by law to have it within 90 days of your entry.
You CAN get it within a week of your arrival (if you have your medical right away). |
Then the first big step in getting enrolled in the KNHIP is the medical exam, which is under the control of the teacher with respect to getting to an appropriate hospital and passing the tests.
The second factor is filing for the ARC, but this requires some paperwork from the school for the teacher to take to the immi office. I recall taking paperwork other than my medical with me to immi. What was that?
The third factor is how long the school takes to submit the remaining paperwork, and then turnaround time from KNHIP.
Anything missing?
Is it resonable to assume one could get their medical within their first week in Korea and be enrolled in KNHIP by the end of the fourth week? |
You pretty much have it.... I think I had my NHIC card about 40 days AFTER I started my new job but I had a delay of about 3 weeks before I actually got my ARC. (that was in the days before we needed the medical).
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