About two and a half weeks ago, my boyfriend Brad was play fighting with his friends in Hongdae Park. He hurt it so bad that the pain in his knee was unbearable, so his friend and I ended up having to take him to the hospital to get it checked out. After 9 hours in the emergency room 300,000 won worth of x-rays and a 650,000 won MRI, the outcome was a broken tibia in two places and a torn MCL. The doctor said that Brad needed to have surgery done on his knee to have it fixed up since the injury so serious. We asked the doctoer how much surgery would cost, we thought maybe it would be a couple of hundred thousand won since he had medical coverage with his school. Turns out, the cost of the surgery was going to be 5 Million won (that's about $5,000 CAD). That's 5 Million won including the medical coverage. Yikes!
After a 5 hour surgery and 3 nights at the hospital, Brad is doing well. He's hobbling around on cruches and sporting an awesome knee brace. Serves him right for being drunk play fighting in Hongdae Park.
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