Medical Services Available to Korean Immigrants
In particular, ophthalmology, surgery, dentistry, and orthopedics can be said to be among the best in the world, and cardiac surgery and infertility treatments are among the best. As the number of foreigners visiting or staying in Korea has increased dramatically, many medical institutions in Korea have opened international treatment centers to provide a high level of medical care to meet the medical needs of foreigners and to meet world standards.
After obtaining permanent residency, foreigners can enjoy the same government benefits as Korean nationals, such as medical care, pension, and education.
Medical care: After living in Korea for three months while holding F-2 or F-1, you can apply to start paying for medical insurance. The cost of insurance is a minimum standard of 76,710 won (about 423 yuan) for a family per month. After naturalization, you are free to choose whether or not to pay medical insurance. After naturalization, medical insurance is required to be paid annually. Clients can also choose more insurance, and can consider AXA, which is globally linked. universal medical coverage, enjoy regular cancer checkups, basic annual checkups for children,
Foreigners can also enjoy convenient medical services in Korea. The Seoul International Center is equipped with a 24-hour medical support service (MRS) team for foreign patients, and staff members who are fluent in foreign languages and have a wealth of medical expertise provide foreigners with information and counseling on medical equipment and services. Foreign patients can also visit the Specialized Hospital for Foreigners.
In addition, foreigners can enjoy the same medical insurance services as Koreans. Foreigners can enroll in the National Health Insurance according to their personal situation. It is categorized into company employee insurance for enterprises and institutions, and local medical insurance for self-employed people.
To buy medicines, you need to visit a pharmacy. Pharmacies in Korea sell both prescription and over-the-counter medicines. Over-the-counter medicines include digestive medicines, nutritional medicines, vitamins, antipyretics, painkillers, cold and flu remedies, etc. A doctor's prescription is required for antibiotics, hormones, and special painkillers.
Extended reading: Korean immigrants living in the diet
Kimchi
South Korea's diet is mainly light, we all know that South Korea's kimchi is very famous, kimchi is South Korea's first gourmet, nutritious and good taste but also cosmetic, South Koreans can not be separated from the dish.
Hot sauce
In addition to kimchi, Koreans can not live without hot sauce, kimchi, barbecue meat, noodles, seafood, lettuce and cucumber dipped in hot sauce is a dish. It can be said that one of the characteristics of Korean cuisine is spicy. This spicy and China's spicy is not the same, China's spicy is fragrant savory spicy, and Korea is a sweet dry spicy, eat not feel, swallow the spicy people straight gasping for air.
Fried Rice Cake
Korea has a snack, similar to the Chinese rice cake, cylindrical, long cut into small pieces, put in a skillet with red hot sauce mixed, fried and eaten. This snack is available in many restaurants.
Pancakes are also more famous in Korea, but they are thicker than Chinese ones, often filled with things like shredded squid, and are mostly palm-sized, making them easy to roll up. There is also a type of pancake made with potato flour, to be dipped in seasoning and eaten, the flavor is very good.
Similar to Chinese rice, there are also dumplings, mostly fried and steamed, and steamed buns, only with sweet fillings, like thick-skinned bean buns.
I'm sure you've heard of cold noodles in Korea.
In a chilled, sweet and sour cold broth, there is a thin ball of noodles with two pieces of hard-boiled egg lying on top and two slices of pear or radish, very tasty.
Cold noodles are mainly Pyongyang cold noodles made of buckwheat noodles and Hamhung cold noodles made of potatoes, and can be served in two ways: with soup and with chili sauce, with a very smooth texture. On a hot summer day, you can sit down with your legs crossed and have a bowl of cold noodles with ice!
Barbecue
Koreans invite guests to dinner usually eat barbecue, that is, the beef or steak marinated with seasonings, put on the iron plate grilled. Garlic, spicy sauce, lettuce leaves, kimchi is naturally rare, advanced some of the more seafood, wrapped in leaves with meat to eat, the flavor is very good. There is another type of hot pot, similar to Japanese hot pot, which is actually a skillet. In the pan put on the meat, onions, enoki mushrooms, etc., add soy sauce, fried and dipped in seasoning to eat, is the flavor is a little sweet, eat more than some greasy. Koreans don't like grease, so they use paper towels to soak up the grease when the meat oozes out of the pan. Once, a friend invited me to eat steak soup, and I thought it would be delicious. When I brought it up, there were a few big pieces of steak alone in the casserole, a few chopped scallions sprinkled in the broth, and the flavor was bland. They skimmed off the oil a long time ago! I'd rather eat kimchi with rice.
Bibimbap is also a typical Korean dish, which is white rice served in a big, heavy bowl made of stone, which is hot, with meat, eggs, bean sprouts and other vegetables, mixed with chili sauce and eaten, which doesn't taste very good, but has a potpourri that's crunchy and flavorful.
Ginseng Chicken Soup
Koreans are very particular about nourishment, and they eat Ginseng Chicken Soup on the third day of the year. Ginseng chicken soup is made by stewing chicken with glutinous rice, ginseng and jujube until it is rotten and eaten with salt, which is said to be very nutritious. Speaking of soup, there is also beef soup made from beef bones and beef, which is very tasty.
In Korean restaurants, usually take off your shoes and eat on the bed with your legs crossed. The room is small, the table is short, if there are many people such as banquets, the walls of these small rooms can be pulled up like shutters, to how much space at any time you can change and adjust, very convenient. Guests usually sit on both sides of a square table, and the table can be as long as the room is, which reminds me of kindergarten children sitting in rows and dividing up fruits. Korea is also a country of many manners. Eating is fine, but drinking is a different story. When they toast to others, they take their own glass, hand it to the other party, pour half a glass of wine, and the person being toasted turns around, backs his face, tilts his head and drinks, and then toasts back.