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Small and tiny things to know about Korea. Part 3

 : Some documents are made with no use like the following the Health Insurance Certificate.... If you live in Korea or employed in Korea, there are many things you are going to see. But just tourist wouldn't. This is one of reasons why I want to live for more than a month when I travel abroad... This way I would be able to understand somewhat how they think and behavior like that...

Health Insurance

 : If you are insured by the Korean National Health Insurance, you are going to receive the above certificate. But you don't need to have it all the time or never... because you can get medical treatment with the insurance covered without the certificate. All information is computerized... therefore what you have to do is just to show your ID card or say to them your name and citizen registration number. 

 Dozens years ago, we were supposed to bring the certificate to get the insurance benefit... and you are going to get some records on the paper.... But it's almost no use. And I don't know why they issue it even now.

 FYI, the insurance is obligatory to all people who live in Korea.

Traffic Citation Fine Notice

 : This is what you get when you are caught by a cop on your violating any traffic law. The ticket machine is connected to Internet and issue fine automatically. And at the back side, all information you need to know on the regulation are specified... Don't get caught... even there is an apps for this...

Small and tiny things to know about Korea. Part 2

 : If you ever travel abroad, you would know how different life style and also the way to express something... Here I want to show many small things.. and documents... you can see or you wouldn't see forever in Korea.

Summoning paper for a training

 : This is a document you will never see. It's only issued to men after military service. In Korea all men have to serve military about 2 years. But after the 2 year service, it's not the end. We have to do military training(reserve force training) for a short period 5 times to 3 times a year for more 5 or 6 years. And also this is not the end. After the training, we get a training again two or three times a year in the name of Minbanwi(civil defense) until we get 40 years old. 

 If you are born a Korean man in a ordinary family(not rich), you get sucks... You don't have any choice but to serve if you are not sick or have some problem.... Some guys even give up Korean nationality to avoid the service....

Receipt and Certificate for Locker

 : This is what you see frequently when you travel in Korea by Subway. There is locker facility at almost every subway station. You can put your luggage there. It's not that big to contain the big size travel bag but can contain your backpack and other small things together. Of course there are bigger sized compartments. You'd better to keep the paper because it has the number of the locker and the time...

Small and tiny things to know about Korea. Part 1

 : You are going to meet very unusual things while traveling in Korea... I came up with a few things with explanations.

Business card sized flyers for ads

 : They are spread on the street of especially downtwon. It's about lending money(credit) with interests. The rate is very high. So be careful. No you don't need to. Because they won't lend you any money because you are a foreigner.

Garbages

 : We had a kind of dumping place at a corner in a town. But nowadays we separate garbages into many kinds including recycling. But in some places you can see scattered garbage like this on the street. It's just not supposed to be.

Bicycle Lent

 : You can borrow a bicycle there. It's kind of widespread program in Korea. It's for free.

Real estate Ads and others... 

A kind of ticket for using a computer at a Internet Cafe

 : It's a new system adopted by several Internet Cafe in Korea. You pay the fee on an auto machine in advance. And you can use the card number "9066". It's not usual right now.

This is a lotto card

And another instant lotto

 : The computerized paper is the lotto managed by the Government, which is the biggest in Korea. 1,000 won per a number set. At least you have to pay for the 5 number sets. It's done every week. The numbers are selected on every Saturday. Anyone can buy it. The ticket is the certificate to get the winning prize.