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If you get hit by a bus, how r your parents going to Know?

 
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Shinnam



Joined: 16 Jan 2007

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:44 pm    Post subject: If you get hit by a bus, how r your parents going to Know? Reply with quote

If you get hit by a bus, does somebody know how to get your body home?
Make sure you have SOMEONE IN KOREA that has your contacts for home and if you have any medical conditions . A few years ago a young relatively healthy friend had a life threaten illness. Fortunately He was found unconscious in his apartment by his roommate in time, he would have died in 12 hours if he hadn't been . We didn't know who to contact, and didn't know that he had Krone's disease. We had to dig through his personal stuff and finally found a number, but it was about a day.
Most schools don't have an emergency contact number, and they way things change it is likely not to be current if you have been here a few years. Take care of yourself make sure someone has a contact numbers for you.
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bassexpander



Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's why you should make sure you school has all of your updated home address information. Also your embassy. And at least one Korean you call a friend (best if a coworker).
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sojukettle



Joined: 23 Aug 2005
Location: Not there, HERE!

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In your mobile Phone have a number under the name 'ICE' - In Case of Emergency.
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anyangoldboy



Joined: 28 Sep 2007

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All foreigners are meant to carry around the ARC at all time apparently
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cruisemonkey



Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sojukettle wrote:
In your mobile Phone have a number under the name 'ICE' - In Case of Emergency.


I don't have a mobile phone... will they put my body on ice?
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the ireland



Joined: 11 May 2008
Location: korea

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:22 pm    Post subject: Re: If you get hit by a bus, how r your parents going to Kno Reply with quote

Shinnam wrote:
If you get hit by a bus, how r your parents going to Know?


there is a fair chance it will have been one of them driving, and my money is on my mother Cool Cool Cool
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The_Source



Joined: 09 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:08 pm    Post subject: Re: If you get hit by a bus, how r your parents going to Kno Reply with quote

Shinnam wrote:
If you get hit by a bus, how r your parents going to Know?


Who?

Oh yeah, them. Been a while since I've been back there. Maybe they forgot about me.
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The_Source



Joined: 09 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cruisemonkey wrote:


I don't have a mobile phone... will they put my body on ice?


I hope you're just kidding... about the mobile phone.
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blissfullyignorant



Joined: 11 Oct 2008
Location: the ROK

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would anyone know what ICE means if I'm found lying in the street?
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Bibbitybop



Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you are dead, you won't care. Trust me, I've been through this back in 1974. Wasn't a bus, but I didn't care afterward.


The "ICE" thing is stupid. My mother's cell phone shop in the USA added my father's number as ICE. When I was attempting to call his number from her phone, I asked why it wasn't in there. She told me it was under ICE. I said "the number should be 911."
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Gimpokid



Joined: 09 Nov 2008
Location: Best Gimpo

PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I see ICE in a seizuring person's cellphone, I'd probally just figure it was their meth hook up.

Bibbitybop is right. I'm the one that just got hit by a bus. I'll make the time to notify people later.
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peppermint



Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

blissfullyignorant wrote:
Would anyone know what ICE means if I'm found lying in the street?


Not sure about Korea, but my kid sister is a paramedic in Canada, and she was the one who told me. I'd imagine emergency services types in the West would know. In Korea, doubt they'd even stop to look for a phone, they'd just walk over you.
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