Dojun had just arrived back in town from Pusan (or Busan)
where he visited his parents this week to start to find a wedding company. Pusan is the second biggest city in S. Korea and
it seems to be around 220 miles away.
And so it begins…the time will now fly by before the wedding. I happened
to have a very bad cold so I asked him to tell me about the health care system
in S. Korea. If I understand it
correctly, most people have insurance with the government which pays half. Dojun told me that his parents were on his
plan which he has with the government. This was interesting because not only
are his parents on the plan but the company pays their half too. In the US, we generally keep children and
young adults on our plan but not parents. I asked him if his company has a plan and it
does. Apparently, it is possible to
choose a different plan if it is cheaper.
He went on to explain that S. Korea had been a victim of the MERS virus
which affected a lot of people. When I
looked it up, it seems as though the outbreak happened several years ago
now. Dojun says that the hospital
culture in S. Korea is one of everyone visiting the sick person. These visits are not necessarily related to
MERS, but Dojun used it as a example. He
was quite adamant that he disagrees with these visits because who wants
visitors when you are sick and look awful.
I couldn’t agree more.
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