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Can you buy contact lenses in Korea without a prescription?

 
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Esoterik



Joined: 21 Jun 2012

PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:07 am    Post subject: Can you buy contact lenses in Korea without a prescription? Reply with quote

Can you buy contact lenses in Korea without a prescription?

Thanks!
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young_clinton



Joined: 09 Sep 2009

PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, I don't think so.
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Yaya



Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 7:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do so all the time.
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NYC_Gal 2.0



Joined: 10 Dec 2010

PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 2:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, you can. I've gone to several eyeglass and contact shops, and just told them the prescription and make and bought them.
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drydell



Joined: 01 Oct 2009

PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Or... Ask for an eye test - that will cost you nothing here - and are super high tech.. Takes about 3 minutes.. There's your prescription.
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missty



Joined: 19 Feb 2008

PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 11:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I go into those glasses shops all the time, write down my prescription and they hand it over with no issues. Also, as someone has said, getting a free eye test is also quite common here too. Plus, if you want glasses made then unlike the UK where I have to send off for them, they will usually be made within a day. Once they were done in 20 minutes!
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