Foreigners Residing Over 6 Months Must Subscribe To State Health Insurance From July Insurance korea

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All foreigners who stay inside Korea for six months or longer determination be required to mark up for the country's condition insurance program to prevent them from receiving medical treatment including leaving without paying insurance fees. Korea Times file

All foreigners who stay inside South Korea for six months or longer determination be required to mark up for the country's condition insurance program to prevent them from receiving medical treatment including leaving without paying insurance fees, the operator about the state medical insurance scheme said Thursday.



Under the new rules that take effect July 16, all foreigners, including Korean expatriates residing inside the country, should pay over 110,000 won (US$93) per month, according to the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS).



At present, foreigners who work here are required to pay for condition insurance, including non-working foreign residents here can optionally subscribe to the scheme.



The NHIS said foreign students including those marrying South Korean nationals are also required to join the state insurance scheme. The new mandatory insurance program is likely to affect some 400,000 foreigners, it added.



Foreigners here may face penalties unless they comply with the new requirement including pay on time, it stressed.



Foreign subscribers to South Korea's state condition insurance program numbered regarding 1 million inside 2018, or 1.9 percent about the total subscribers tallied at 51.07 million, according to the NHIS.



The figure represents a 68.4 percent surge from six years earlier.



The number about foreigners staying inside South Korea came to 2.37 million last year, up 8.6 percent from the previous year. (Yonhap)

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