What to check before buying travel insurance for Korea

Travel insurance is not priced from a list — the premium is quoted from your age, trip length and cover level, so there is no single price for us to publish. What decides whether you are actually covered is the wording: undeclared conditions, excluded activities and trip-length caps refuse claims regardless of what you paid. Tell us about your trip and we will list the clauses that apply to you, worst first.

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1 of 3 could void a claim

Not merely reduce a payout — refuse it outright. Those are listed first below.

1 could void a claim1 change what you are covered for1 worth checking

  1. Could void a claimThe medical expense limit, and the separate limit for emergency evacuation.These are two different numbers. A policy can carry a large medical limit and a small evacuation limit, and evacuation is the part that produces the very large bills.
  2. Changes what you are covered forThe deductible (excess) per claim, and whether it applies per incident or per person.A low premium is often a high excess. Per-person excess on a family policy multiplies the amount you pay before cover starts.
  3. Worth checkingHow a claim is submitted, and whether the insurer pays the hospital directly.Direct billing versus reimbursement decides whether you need thousands available on a card while abroad.

Why an insurer would not show you this list

Every policy is sold by someone with no reason to lead with its own exclusions. The items above are ordered by how badly they bite, not by how easy they are to sell around. The ordering comes from your answers and does not change based on who pays us.

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What we measure here, and what we don't

This page contains no prices, because we cannot measure a quote. The checklist is generated from the structure of how travel policies are written, which does not change day to day. When we start recording specific policies' cover limits, each figure will carry the date a person checked it against the policy document — the same rule we apply to every other number on this site.