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malandlu
Joined: 05 Nov 2008
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 Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject: medical |
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OK so there are like at least 8000 ESL teachers in Korea with at least half of them working for Hagwons/private schools or basically not a government backed organisations. In addition throughout the forum many have said that dodgy managers don�t pay medical though they claim to or have you sneakily registered as a independent contractor.
As ESL teachers are famed for their drinking habits plus Koreans drive like lunatics  there should be many cases of people having to go to hospital. Has anyone ever had trouble using there medical insurance or found out that it was invalid and what was the outcome? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject: Re: medical |
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| malandlu wrote: |
OK so there are like at least 8000 ESL teachers in Korea with at least half of them working for Hagwons/private schools or basically not a government backed organisations. In addition throughout the forum many have said that dodgy managers don�t pay medical though they claim to or have you sneakily registered as a independent contractor.
As ESL teachers are famed for their drinking habits plus Koreans drive like lunatics there should be many cases of people having to go to hospital. Has anyone ever had trouble using there medical insurance or found out that it was invalid and what was the outcome? |
Bottom line... if you have the NTS booklet, you ARE covered.
If you don't have it, you pay full price for medical.
Most people who don't have insurance don't know the difference because medical costs here are so cheap compared to the states AND they usually get overcharged at the international clinics anyway. |
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