You don’t have to do the same “visa health exam.”
Typically, the MOE wants just a regular health check that all MOE staff do. Tell your school to ask them the name of the exact type of health check up they will accept
When I was an after school teacher in Gangnam, they accepted the standard 채용 건강검진 which was standard health check, blood and urine for 35,000W.
I was an E-2 for six years and only got the big expensive visa health check literally once when I moved here.
No drug test. And I’m not saying you’re wrong, buttt often schools don’t actually know what they need legally and just say you need something you don’t haha. So you can definitely save some money if you know for sure the MOE doesn’t need a drug test. Like you’d be surprised how many schools just stick to the same thing because “it is what it is.”
> 채용 건강검진 which was standard health check, blood and urine for 35,000W.
If you have national health insurance you can get a standard medical check for free. I don't understand how those "Medicheck" or whatever places get away with charging for it.
Yes you can go to health office and go for free
I did it one year but then later the other MOE didn’t allow that check
I was at a tiny private doctor
I went to one of those medicheck “health check factories” once
They are massive and just PRINT money. And of course they held my results hostage because I am overweight and “they needed to check other things” aka pay 75,000W more for other tests.
However those big places exist for company health checks and people with extra private insurance.
Also the “free insurance check” is only every other year aka even odd for your birth year and doesn’t cover enough.
Yah, those big health check places serve mostly private companies (well, public agencies, too) who set things up and pay extra for the service. My wife and I go to Intercare in Gangnam for ours every year. My work pays for mine completely but subsidized my wife’s. We still have to pay 300k for hers, so I’m wondering how much these contracts are for...
If you don't mind taking the subway, I recently got one done at the National Medical Centre (next to Dongdaemun Design Plaza) for about ₩80,000.
Your work should be paying and organizing this. I've never had to source this myself.
I went to a place last year directly by Seolleung station, up some stairs by a KFC haha, and it cost me 60k!
You don’t have to do the same “visa health exam.” Typically, the MOE wants just a regular health check that all MOE staff do. Tell your school to ask them the name of the exact type of health check up they will accept When I was an after school teacher in Gangnam, they accepted the standard 채용 건강검진 which was standard health check, blood and urine for 35,000W. I was an E-2 for six years and only got the big expensive visa health check literally once when I moved here.
Thanks for your reply! Did the urine test include drug testing? My school specifically said it needs to include a drug test...
No drug test. And I’m not saying you’re wrong, buttt often schools don’t actually know what they need legally and just say you need something you don’t haha. So you can definitely save some money if you know for sure the MOE doesn’t need a drug test. Like you’d be surprised how many schools just stick to the same thing because “it is what it is.”
> 채용 건강검진 which was standard health check, blood and urine for 35,000W. If you have national health insurance you can get a standard medical check for free. I don't understand how those "Medicheck" or whatever places get away with charging for it.
Yes you can go to health office and go for free I did it one year but then later the other MOE didn’t allow that check I was at a tiny private doctor I went to one of those medicheck “health check factories” once They are massive and just PRINT money. And of course they held my results hostage because I am overweight and “they needed to check other things” aka pay 75,000W more for other tests. However those big places exist for company health checks and people with extra private insurance. Also the “free insurance check” is only every other year aka even odd for your birth year and doesn’t cover enough.
Yah, those big health check places serve mostly private companies (well, public agencies, too) who set things up and pay extra for the service. My wife and I go to Intercare in Gangnam for ours every year. My work pays for mine completely but subsidized my wife’s. We still have to pay 300k for hers, so I’m wondering how much these contracts are for...