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[Nexus11]

My school is telling the teachers that everyone needs to get a health check and that there will be doctors coming to test us. They claim that this is a government rule and that all foreign and Korean teachers must take it every two years. This is separate from the health check that we did when we began our contracts.

Has anyone heard of this before? I can't find any information supporting this claim and don't want to be roped into more unnecessary tests. Is there any validity to this?

[T-dot]

Ya, every public school teacher has to do it every 2 years. If you havent been there that long, you shouldnt have to.

Its free and all the teachers usually do it to maintain health or to find out whats wrong with them.

[Big Mac]

I had to do this when I worked at a hogwan. The doctors came to the school with a bus that had an X-Ray machine in it. They also set up little stations in the classrooms where they checked your vision, height, weight, blood. You can also go talk to the doctor about what is bothering you.

It's a service provided by the National Health Insurance Corporation every two years. Kind of like a check-up that you don't have to go to the doctor's office for.

It was nice to have a free check-up, but what I didn't like about it was that the results went to my boss first, who looked it over before giving it to me. Nothing confidential here.

[Chambertin]

No idea on it but a short while back the students were complaining about the blood tests for AIDS and other things they had to go through at public school. There isnt much that surprises me on the medical front anymore.

On the positive point, the kids are about 100% cleaner since the flu scare. If we are lucky this might prompt the nation to supply soap and toilet paper for public bathrooms.

Lets start a rumor mill that using the faucet without soap or touching the community TP dispenser (if lucky enough to have one) is the real threat to spreading the flu.

I should ask for paper towels too, but lets start slow.