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Mitsuko
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 Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject: Additional Health Check |
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| Hello, my school says im required to do an additional health check before December 31st. This has nothing to do with the E-2 visa requirement, I have been at the same public school for over a year now. I asked my coteachers what its about but none of them can give me a striaght answer. Is anyone in the same boat? |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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It's probably the medical check that all the Korean teachers have to take. I did mine at the start of December. It's kind of fun because you can get out of school for half the day ("The clinic was really busy......"  ) and you can find out what your cholesterol and liver function and all that stuff is. They won't test for drugs or HIV or any of that stuff. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:09 am Post subject: Re: Additional Health Check |
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| Mitsuko wrote: |
| Hello, my school says im required to do an additional health check before December 31st. This has nothing to do with the E-2 visa requirement, I have been at the same public school for over a year now. I asked my coteachers what its about but none of them can give me a striaght answer. Is anyone in the same boat? |
This sounds like the health check up required under the National Health Insurance. It used to be required every few years and was done on a rotating basis using the Korean alpahbet to determine who got a physical in any given year. This year they began requiring annual physicals - I'm not sure if age is a factor. I've been told that everyone will have to get one every year. Every teacher, and every Korean employee, at our hogwan is required to get one. |
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Goon-Yang
Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Duh
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| Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| It's ahealth insurance thing. You'd think they'd use the health check you got a few months ago, but then again you'd think immigration could save all our info...lol. |
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jhuntingtonus
Joined: 09 Dec 2008
Location: Jeonju
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:26 am Post subject: |
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| Had the same thing in Jeonju. They told me it was an extra one, required every two years. It consumed an hour or so and cost me nothing. |
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