Health & Safety Presentation _FLP South Korea

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[00:00:01.260]Well, thank y'all
[00:00:02.093]for spending some time with me this afternoon.
[00:00:05.970]Hope the end of the semester went well.
[00:00:09.570]We will do our best not to belabor too many points.
[00:00:14.040]That being said,
[00:00:14.873]please feel free to break in and ask questions.
[00:00:19.710]Zoom is really not the best vehicle for this presentation.
[00:00:22.680]It really is a good opportunity for discussion.
[00:00:25.860]And so please interrupt, raise your hand.
[00:00:28.980]I'll do my best to try and pay attention to everyone's video
[00:00:33.510]and capture someone if they're trying to raise hands.
[00:00:35.820]But yeah, please, please do ask questions.
[00:00:40.560]I think health and safety is generally a good team sport.
[00:00:44.610]So please, please break in
[00:00:46.860]if there's something that I don't cover clearly.
[00:00:53.340]Yeah, let's get into it.
[00:00:55.500]So while you're abroad, please recognize
[00:00:59.460]that you will be representing more than yourself.
[00:01:03.750]You'll be representing the University of Nebraska.
[00:01:07.410]You'll get to introduce people to the State of Nebraska.
[00:01:09.690]And to a certain degree,
[00:01:12.390]you'll be representing the country as well,
[00:01:17.460]really, whether you'd like to or not.
[00:01:22.020]Please recognize, right,
[00:01:23.400]that our institution has worked hard
[00:01:24.900]to develop these relationships abroad,
[00:01:27.180]and that our, you know, or our behavioral decisions have,
[00:01:34.410]you know, consequences outside of maybe yourself,
[00:01:39.030]and potentially have consequences
[00:01:42.630]where they touch on our partnerships abroad.
[00:01:45.510]So there is potential
[00:01:49.710]that we're seeing a little bit more scrutiny
[00:01:51.750]of American travelers right now
[00:01:53.400]than what we typically would be,
[00:01:56.280]at least this is one of the concerns
[00:01:58.740]that's kind of growing in our space, right?
[00:02:02.535]That we have a administration
[00:02:03.810]that's a little bit more verbose
[00:02:06.300]and a little bit more difficult abroad,
[00:02:08.370]and that maybe that's presenting some challenges
[00:02:11.040]to some of the traveling public.
[00:02:15.090]There's an example out of Denmark right now,
[00:02:17.310]where there is a student from Ohio who is still detained
[00:02:25.110]on a pretty low-level kind of disturbance charge.
[00:02:29.370]And so, you know, just out of curiosity,
[00:02:31.800]we're wondering if there's more to that kind of detainment
[00:02:38.412]than just the actual charge itself,
[00:02:40.170]and if there's some kind of political motivation to it.
[00:02:42.507]And so just bear in mind,
[00:02:46.680]this is not the season to be all kind of,
[00:02:53.100]acting up abroad, or to doing challenging things abroad,
[00:02:59.370]certainly, won't be greeted in the best of ways,
[00:03:03.210]at least at this point in time.
[00:03:05.790]With that in mind,
[00:03:06.623]please recognize that when you travel abroad,
[00:03:11.040]the UNL student Code of Conduct and community standards
[00:03:14.580]will be our kind of guiding principle around expectations
[00:03:21.030]for behavior while you're abroad.
[00:03:22.740]It will travel with you.
[00:03:26.400]If we have issues around behavior abroad,
[00:03:28.860]we generally work with the Office of Student Conduct
[00:03:31.710]and Community Standards.
[00:03:33.270]Sometimes those issues come back to campus
[00:03:37.020]when that office decides to open cases and things like that.
[00:03:40.317]And so please recognize that your conduct can certainly,
[00:03:45.150]because it's on a UNL program,
[00:03:46.650]can have impacts here on campus as well.
[00:03:50.820]In addition to the Code of Conduct,
[00:03:54.090]you all also signed the Education Abroad Agreement,
[00:03:57.210]which, you probably didn't read it.
[00:03:59.280]It's a little bit like updating your phone
[00:04:01.890]with terms and conditions,
[00:04:03.960]but it effectively allows your trip leaders
[00:04:06.570]to build new expectations into the program
[00:04:09.780]if we're seeing concerns around health and safety, right?
[00:04:13.260]And so, generally, what that looks like is,
[00:04:16.410]we having issues with alcohol, either someone's doing,
[00:04:22.230]you know, consuming alcohol in not a safe fashion
[00:04:25.020]or not a responsible fashion,
[00:04:26.880]and it's starting to impact programming
[00:04:28.650]or something like that.
[00:04:30.600]We've had programs that have gone to complete abstinence
[00:04:35.100]around alcohol, or abolition of alcohol,
[00:04:38.910]and then we've had programs that have had curfews
[00:04:40.740]that have been added to program and things like that.
[00:04:43.500]And so the Education Abroad Agreement is what allows
[00:04:46.920]your trip leaders to kind of make those adjustments
[00:04:49.320]and build in those new expectations.
[00:04:51.300]So just kind of bear in mind that that will be the mechanism
[00:04:56.850]if we have to change course kind of midstream.
[00:05:01.710]This slide is kind of a goofy slide.
[00:05:03.630]I did not build this slide deck.
[00:05:05.040]So don't think that I put my picture
[00:05:07.470]in my own PowerPoint presentation.
[00:05:11.340]The actual kind of details that come from this slide,
[00:05:15.090]I think, is somewhat interesting.
[00:05:16.470]So we've done quite a bit of incident data analysis
[00:05:21.540]across the Big Ten, really, for the last decade.
[00:05:24.240]And we've looked
[00:05:25.073]at what are the three main contributing factors when people
[00:05:34.410]have significant health or safety incidents abroad, right?
[00:05:37.137]And so these are things that are under everyone's control.
[00:05:41.550]These are kind of personal decision-making things,
[00:05:44.550]but these are the top three kind of risk factors that,
[00:05:49.536]or create more risk, or threat kind of risk incidents,
[00:05:54.510]indicators that create more risk.
[00:05:57.450]And so what we see is,
[00:05:58.710]even in uniquely safe environments, right?
[00:06:00.930]And in South Korea, and Seoul in particular,
[00:06:03.930]is a uniquely safe environment
[00:06:05.730]from a crime and safety standpoint, right?
[00:06:08.007]And so, but what we see is,
[00:06:11.040]when you start adding these three things
[00:06:14.549]into your experience abroad,
[00:06:16.500]your risk goes up exponentially.
[00:06:19.952]And these three items, these three don'ts,
[00:06:22.890]kind of layer on top of one another.
[00:06:24.900]And what I mean by that is,
[00:06:26.730]you can kind of engage with one of them
[00:06:28.800]and not really engender that much risk.
[00:06:31.620]It's when you start stacking these things on top
[00:06:33.930]of each other that you start really kind of engaging
[00:06:36.960]with quite a bit more risk,
[00:06:38.340]really, regardless of the location.
[00:06:40.020]And so just to kind of drive this point home,
[00:06:43.170]the last Big Ten college student who passed away
[00:06:46.920]on programming was a Penn State college student
[00:06:50.820]right before COVID.
[00:06:53.280]He was in Amsterdam, so safe, right?
[00:06:57.870]Statistically, you know, very safe city.
[00:07:02.220]And was quite drunk. He was out by himself.
[00:07:07.470]It was three o'clock in the morning,
[00:07:09.150]got an altercation with a homeless individual,
[00:07:11.070]and got pushed in the canal,
[00:07:12.870]and wasn't able to make it out of the canal,
[00:07:14.670]and actually drowned in the canal.
[00:07:16.620]And so, right, just to, that's kind of worst case scenario,
[00:07:21.720]obviously, but certainly,
[00:07:23.460]when we look at health and safety incidents,
[00:07:26.370]these three things generally layer into the risk
[00:07:29.400]of all of those health and safety incidents.
[00:07:33.330]So as far as alcohol is concerned, right, we generally start
[00:07:35.940]with a very liberal policy around alcohol and say that,
[00:07:40.477]"If you're of legal drinking age in the country,
[00:07:42.990]then we have expectations that you drink responsibly
[00:07:46.560]in your host country."
[00:07:47.760]I think it's actually
[00:07:48.593]a pretty interesting kind of cultural mechanism, right?
[00:07:51.300]Every culture and subculture engages with alcohol
[00:07:55.020]a little bit differently.
[00:07:56.130]And I do think it's an interesting kind of opportunity
[00:07:58.950]for cultural exploration.
[00:08:01.860]Our biggest concern is that you don't start stacking
[00:08:04.590]those risk factors on each other, right?
[00:08:06.390]And so that we are drinking responsibly,
[00:08:09.450]that we are utilizing the buddy system,
[00:08:12.240]that no one is ever alone, right?
[00:08:14.520]And that we have some sort of end-of-night plan that,
[00:08:18.750]you know, if you go out as a group,
[00:08:20.940]everyone kind of understands
[00:08:22.320]and recognizes what they want to get out of the evening
[00:08:24.780]and when they wanna come back, and to make sure
[00:08:27.210]that we don't leave anybody out on their own.
[00:08:30.450]As far as drugs are concerned, please avoid them entirely,
[00:08:34.350]certainly runs against the Student Code of Conduct.
[00:08:36.930]And the South Korean government has absolutely no patience
[00:08:40.800]when it comes to drugs whatsoever.
[00:08:43.080]They have some of the strictest legal codes in the world
[00:08:48.030]when it comes to combating drugs in their system.
[00:08:52.950]And so please recognize
[00:08:54.930]that we haven't ever had anyone arrested for drugs,
[00:08:57.870]and I'd like to keep that record going.
[00:09:04.830]As far as kind of personal safety,
[00:09:08.370]you know, what we do see in South Korea,
[00:09:11.160]and Seoul more specifically,
[00:09:13.290]is the general kind of pickpocketing, kind of bag snatching.
[00:09:16.200]I mean, if we do see crime.
[00:09:17.970]That being said, it's a very safe city.
[00:09:20.640]We generally don't see much crime at all.
[00:09:22.950]We certainly don't see any sort of significant rates
[00:09:25.890]of confrontational crime, right?
[00:09:30.210]Where someone would actually confront you
[00:09:33.510]and demand something from you from a, you know,
[00:09:36.463]a theft or a robbery or something like that.
[00:09:38.520]But we still do have instances of kind of pickpocketing,
[00:09:43.320]bag snatching, items being picked up,
[00:09:45.420]you know, if they're left behind.
[00:09:48.030]So really would encourage you to pay close attention
[00:09:50.610]to your stuff when you are in crowded spaces,
[00:09:53.700]when you're in touristy spaces,
[00:09:55.020]when you are on public transport, that sort of thing, right?
[00:09:57.810]I think the more we can build kind of a mechanism,
[00:10:02.580]that the more crowded we get,
[00:10:04.470]the more we pay attention to our stuff,
[00:10:06.360]the better off we are.
[00:10:10.710]I want to recognize
[00:10:12.360]that we'll be a little bit more vulnerable
[00:10:14.610]when we first arrive in South Korea, right?
[00:10:17.340]If you've grown up in the States,
[00:10:20.940]then your situational awareness,
[00:10:23.880]the way that you kind of look at the world and engage,
[00:10:26.730]and start to pick out kind of concerning things
[00:10:29.730]in your world, is all based on your cultural cues
[00:10:33.840]that you grew up with, right?
[00:10:34.887]And so if you're not experienced in South Korea,
[00:10:38.370]those cultural cues are going to be different.
[00:10:40.650]And so your situational awareness
[00:10:43.080]is not all that attuned to what it needs to be
[00:10:46.290]for kind of the South Korean context.
[00:10:48.330]And so kind of wanna encourage you to pay more attention
[00:10:52.170]on the front end of things,
[00:10:55.020]on the front end of programming, to make sure
[00:10:57.420]that you're being kind of more particularly cautious,
[00:11:01.755]and just because you're gonna be out of your depth,
[00:11:05.220]until you have some time to kind of recalibrate
[00:11:07.800]and build that new equilibrium.
[00:11:12.755]I would really encourage you to think about, you know,
[00:11:14.280]what you're wearing and the signals that you're putting off
[00:11:16.560]as far as how much wealth you're actually displaying, right?
[00:11:20.970]And the valuables that you're carrying.
[00:11:22.650]Please don't take anything that can't be replaced, right?
[00:11:25.860]And even if we just lose
[00:11:28.770]it's kind of a miserable way to have the trip go.
[00:11:34.140]Think about carrying only what you need for the day,
[00:11:37.290]making sure that you're not carrying all of your cards
[00:11:40.380]and all of your cash and your passport and your phone
[00:11:43.200]and everything in one bag.
[00:11:45.210]So even if you lose that bag, right?
[00:11:47.040]I mean, it's a pretty, pretty terrible day,
[00:11:50.760]but making sure that you're only carrying what you need
[00:11:53.100]and that you're leaving things behind
[00:11:56.070]in kind of secure places, so that you can, you know,
[00:11:58.920]if you do lose a bag or a wallet,
[00:12:01.080]then you're not losing kind of everything
[00:12:03.000]that you're carrying with you.
[00:12:08.790]A pretty hard and fast rule, or expectation,
[00:12:11.340]is that everyone uses the buddy system,
[00:12:14.640]particularly at night,
[00:12:15.720]everyone should have a buddy from the program,
[00:12:18.900]and that shouldn't really change,
[00:12:21.420]really, at any point in time.
[00:12:23.790]Public transportation is a wonderful aspect of Seoul.
[00:12:27.180]Please make sure that you kind of understand how it works
[00:12:30.330]if you're going to use it.
[00:12:32.712]It's a complicated system,
[00:12:34.140]but it's a very well-running system.
[00:12:39.330]If you are gonna use rideshare apps,
[00:12:42.180]please make sure that you are getting in the right vehicle
[00:12:44.820]with the right driver and the right license plate.
[00:12:48.300]And please make sure that we don't drive
[00:12:50.400]or operate in motor vehicles, motorcycles, things like that.
[00:12:54.630]That's actually the number one risk factor, right?
[00:12:56.910]We talked about those kind of three don'ts
[00:12:59.550]as kind of the personal risk factors.
[00:13:02.880]I like to think of,
[00:13:03.780]we have kind of three external risk factors,
[00:13:05.820]so things kind of outside of your control,
[00:13:08.550]that lead to significant risk or significant incidents.
[00:13:14.100]And motor vehicle accidents are the number one.
[00:13:16.860]And so that's kind of the riskiest activity
[00:13:19.350]that you'll engage in, is being in or around cars
[00:13:22.860]and vehicles and things like that.
[00:13:23.997]And so just pay particular attention as a pedestrian, right?
[00:13:29.250]Traffic is not going to flow like you expect it to.
[00:13:32.490]And make sure that you're moving effectively
[00:13:36.210]when the locals are moving across the street,
[00:13:38.430]and making sure you're paying attention around vehicles
[00:13:41.730]and things like that.
[00:13:45.480]Water safety's number two as far as kind of risk factors,
[00:13:49.590]like external risk factors.
[00:13:51.870]So, you know,
[00:13:53.649]I can't imagine you'll engage with water too much,
[00:13:55.440]but if you do,
[00:13:56.273]please make sure that you are swimming where people are,
[00:14:01.050]that you're not, you know, swimming at some place
[00:14:03.930]that you found where no one else is swimming.
[00:14:05.700]There's probably a reason why no one else is swimming.
[00:14:09.000]The South Koreans know about all of their beaches,
[00:14:12.450]there's no secret beaches.
[00:14:14.790]But please make sure you're swimming around lifeguards
[00:14:16.860]and things like that.
[00:14:17.940]The vast majority of times
[00:14:19.080]when we have issues around water safety,
[00:14:21.960]it has to do with swimming at night in open water.
[00:14:26.400]And generally, the people are by themselves.
[00:14:29.040]And so, again, that kind of runs against all
[00:14:32.310]the risk factors that we're trying to identify.
[00:14:35.010]So please make sure that you're really thoughtful
[00:14:38.010]about swimming in open water,
[00:14:39.840]if you've never done it before,
[00:14:40.980]that you're really honest about your swimming capacity,
[00:14:43.890]and that you're not engaging in something
[00:14:45.990]that's kind of over your skillset.
[00:14:50.400]The last thing from a external risk factor standpoint is,
[00:14:56.940]Big Ten students traveling abroad
[00:15:00.480]tend to fall off of things.
[00:15:04.200]And you guys tend to fall off of things
[00:15:06.930]kind of at an exponentially higher rate
[00:15:10.260]than normal American travelers would,
[00:15:13.590]or older American travelers would.
[00:15:16.928]I'm not 100% sure why you all fall off of things
[00:15:20.670]at a higher rate.
[00:15:23.010]Certainly, oftentimes,
[00:15:24.780]there's some sort of toxicant involved.
[00:15:27.090]We've had students tell us that getting the best picture
[00:15:29.340]was really important, and that involved some sort of height
[00:15:32.490]or something like that.
[00:15:36.060]I also think
[00:15:36.960]there's a bit of a cultural component here, right?
[00:15:39.090]Where if you, you know, if you did grow up in the States,
[00:15:42.720]you grew up in a place that was very particular for a number
[00:15:46.470]of reasons about making sure there was railings everywhere
[00:15:49.920]and signage everywhere, and things that told you, you know,
[00:15:53.107]"Here's a safe place to be,
[00:15:54.240]and here's not safe places to be."
[00:15:56.220]And that's just not necessarily the case when you go abroad.
[00:15:58.860]There's not always as much signage,
[00:16:01.080]or there's not always a railing
[00:16:02.370]where you would expect there to be a railing,
[00:16:04.080]or something like that.
[00:16:04.913]And so just kind of bear that in mind.
[00:16:08.220]And this is kind of a weird outlier of risk
[00:16:12.000]that you all will engage with that doesn't really impact
[00:16:16.830]the rest of the traveling population as much.
[00:16:22.380]If you are the victim of a crime,
[00:16:24.630]please make sure you notify your trip leaders
[00:16:28.320]as quickly as possible.
[00:16:30.720]We have partners on the ground
[00:16:32.790]that are helping us kind of manage and run this trip.
[00:16:36.420]We will rely on them for what the best thing to do
[00:16:43.080]and the particular scenario is.
[00:16:46.770]The South Korean police are excellent.
[00:16:49.440]There's a tourism police specifically in Seoul
[00:16:52.590]that is responsible for you as a tourist.
[00:16:56.340]And they're well-trained.
[00:16:58.710]They respond quickly, and they respond well.
[00:17:04.500]And we generally say, "If you're the victim of a crime,
[00:17:07.230]that you get to drive the bus," right?
[00:17:09.377]And so if you want to engage with law enforcement,
[00:17:12.540]even if it's not really advisable, right?
[00:17:14.730]We'll ask our lo local partners
[00:17:16.740]what they think is the best thing to do.
[00:17:20.100]And if they advise against it,
[00:17:21.510]and you still wanna engage with law enforcement,
[00:17:23.370]that's perfectly fine, right?
[00:17:24.960]That's what we will do.
[00:17:27.180]But just kind of bear in mind
[00:17:29.130]that's who we will kind of rely on for the advice piece.
[00:17:33.150]It's possible we'll get in touch with the US Embassy.
[00:17:36.720]It's more possible that if we get in touch with them,
[00:17:38.730]they won't be helpful, unless we lose a passport,
[00:17:42.240]and then they're the only people who can be helpful.
[00:17:45.360]So if you're accused of a crime,
[00:17:48.870]it's very similar rhythm, right?
[00:17:51.840]Please try and communicate with your trip leaders
[00:17:55.950]as quickly as possible,
[00:17:58.890]follow instructions of law enforcement, and then, again,
[00:18:03.750]probably the US embassy will be involved,
[00:18:06.780]and again, they probably will be less helpful
[00:18:08.910]than what you intend for them to,
[00:18:10.680]or what you expect for them to be.
[00:18:12.870]I've heard that they bring you a ham sandwich
[00:18:15.240]and a list of lawyers and kind of tell you, "Good luck,"
[00:18:18.210]'cause that's their job,
[00:18:19.110]is to make sure that you're being held or detained
[00:18:22.530]in kind of safe and secure environments.
[00:18:24.690]Their job is not to get you out of any particular situation.
[00:18:36.780]As far as sex, dating, and relationships,
[00:18:38.670]I just wanna touch on a couple things.
[00:18:41.190]If you are planning on kind of engaging in this behavior
[00:18:45.000]while you're abroad
[00:18:45.870]or using dating apps while you're abroad,
[00:18:48.360]I first wanna point out that the expectation
[00:18:51.660]is that you use the buddy system,
[00:18:53.490]and the buddy system would be pretty hard to maintain
[00:18:57.210]if this is something that you decide to pursue.
[00:19:01.230]If you do use debating apps,
[00:19:02.880]please make sure that somebody knows where you are
[00:19:05.820]and where you're going, and what time you expect to be back.
[00:19:08.820]And please just recognize
[00:19:10.320]that there are kind of cultural differences
[00:19:13.470]in all the different places of the world
[00:19:15.180]that you will travel with regards to STI rates,
[00:19:19.200]with regards to what consent is,
[00:19:22.440]and when consent can be given and when it can be taken away,
[00:19:25.860]and things like that.
[00:19:29.850]Yeah, please just be particularly careful in this space.
[00:19:34.620]As far as Title IX is concerned, your trip leaders
[00:19:38.940]are expected reporters back to the institution.
[00:19:41.430]And so they are not confidential resources.
[00:19:47.280]There are confidential resources here at the institution,
[00:19:52.047]if that confidentiality is important to you.
[00:19:54.900]But please recognize,
[00:19:56.190]if you do experience sexual misconduct abroad,
[00:19:59.700]that the institution, myself,
[00:20:02.640]the Office of Global Experiences,
[00:20:07.560]and the Offices of Title IX
[00:20:10.200]just want to bring supportive mechanisms to bear.
[00:20:12.750]And so if you do experience sexual misconduct
[00:20:15.840]while you're abroad, please let your trip leaders know,
[00:20:19.440]even though they're not confidential resources,
[00:20:21.870]they're responsible to let the institution or us know,
[00:20:25.290]so that we can care for you.
[00:20:28.500]All the institutional resources that are available
[00:20:31.020]to you on campus are available to you internationally.
[00:20:34.680]So the CARE office, from a confidentiality,
[00:20:39.000]kinda advocacy standpoint, the Title IX office is, you know,
[00:20:43.260]responsible to investigate
[00:20:44.760]and to support you as a complainant.
[00:20:50.370]But please make sure you communicate,
[00:20:52.080]so that we can, you know,
[00:20:55.320]provide safe spaces and be responsive to the needs of,
[00:21:03.128]you know, you as a complaint.
[00:21:10.140]Switching gears a little bit,
[00:21:12.150]everyone will be under our international insurance
[00:21:15.750]when you travel abroad.
[00:21:17.790]It is through AIG, is our insurance provider.
[00:21:22.590]Our AIG insurance has a lot of things,
[00:21:26.460]a lot of coverages that are included in it.
[00:21:29.010]The core coverage is a health benefit,
[00:21:32.940]or a health insurance coverage, for accident and sickness.
[00:21:39.330]So if we ever need to see medical care for accident
[00:21:43.380]or sickness, there's a, you know,
[00:21:45.857]it's a half a million dollar policy,
[00:21:48.300]and there's no deductible.
[00:21:50.100]So it is kind of comprehensive coverage
[00:21:53.220]when it comes to medical care.
[00:21:55.410]Please make sure, right,
[00:21:56.580]you will be in one of the standards of the world
[00:22:00.510]when it comes to medical care.
[00:22:01.740]So please make sure that we access medical care
[00:22:04.050]if we need to,
[00:22:05.940]and that we utilize our insurance when we need to.
[00:22:10.380]Generally, the way our insurance works,
[00:22:11.907]and the way everyone's insurance works,
[00:22:14.100]at least on an international standpoint,
[00:22:16.170]is that we pay at the time of service.
[00:22:19.650]And so the typical expectation
[00:22:22.440]is that if you go to the clinic, that you would pay
[00:22:25.800]that medical provider at the time of service,
[00:22:30.300]or the pharmacy or the hospital or whatever it is,
[00:22:33.690]whatever medical provider it is that you're engaging with.
[00:22:38.520]They do that because you're an international visitor, right?
[00:22:42.000]And you can kind of skip out on your bill whenever you want.
[00:22:45.990]So they are generally particular about you paying
[00:22:48.600]at the time of service.
[00:22:50.910]If you keep all your medical receipts and all of your,
[00:22:54.360]you know, documentation and things like that from the visit,
[00:22:57.210]when you get home, you can work with me,
[00:22:59.940]and we'll submit a claim to AIG,
[00:23:02.940]so that you can get reimbursed.
[00:23:05.190]It's a really easy process most of the time.
[00:23:08.490]However, when I give the student the claim documentation,
[00:23:15.300]you all end up not doing it
[00:23:17.400]'cause it was only 30 or $40, right?
[00:23:19.950]It's just, generally, we don't spend that much money
[00:23:22.410]on medical care when we access it abroad.
[00:23:26.880]But that would be the typical expectation,
[00:23:29.370]is that if you access medical care,
[00:23:31.620]that you would pay for it at time of service.
[00:23:33.990]There's a couple exclusions to that.
[00:23:36.510]If we spend the night in the hospital, right,
[00:23:39.060]if we have some sort of concussion,
[00:23:41.730]and we need to stay in ICU
[00:23:43.140]or something that requires an overnight stay,
[00:23:46.080]generally, AIG will connect with that medical center
[00:23:50.190]and cover the bill,
[00:23:51.660]so that we don't have to pay at the time of service,
[00:23:54.810]or pay before we leave, right?
[00:23:56.370]And so every time we've ever spent the night
[00:23:59.700]in the hospital, AIG has manage that bill directly
[00:24:04.020]with that medical provider.
[00:24:05.970]So that's kind of a different expectation in that scenario.
[00:24:11.340]And then if you're just simply not able to pay,
[00:24:13.410]if you don't have your debit card or your cash,
[00:24:16.080]or it ends up being more than you anticipated,
[00:24:18.383]and you just don't have the funds,
[00:24:20.880]we can use program funds to pay for it,
[00:24:23.700]but we then have to put that bill on your student bill,
[00:24:29.070]and then you can work with me to get reimbursed through AIG,
[00:24:31.650]so then you can pay your student bill.
[00:24:32.970]So it just makes the accounting aspect of it a little,
[00:24:36.150]quite a bit more challenging.
[00:24:37.410]And so that's why the main expectation
[00:24:40.890]is that you all pay at the time of service,
[00:24:43.891]and then work to get reimbursed afterwards.
[00:24:48.660]Along with medical care, there's other coverages,
[00:24:51.750]there's some dental coverage,
[00:24:53.520]there's mental health coverage.
[00:24:54.810]So if we need to see a provider in country
[00:24:57.030]around mental health, there's coverage for that.
[00:25:02.100]Outside of those things, there's evacuation services.
[00:25:05.490]So if we need to medically evacuate somewhere,
[00:25:07.800]or we need to do a security evacuation somewhere.
[00:25:13.410]And then, lastly, there's kind of travel provisions, right?
[00:25:15.960]So if travel gets canceled for somebody,
[00:25:19.020]like if someone gets sick prior to travel,
[00:25:21.660]and they can't travel,
[00:25:23.400]then we can make a claim against insurance
[00:25:25.500]and recoup some of the costs of the trip.
[00:25:32.100]If we lose a bag or something like that,
[00:25:34.020]then we can, again, we can make a claim against insurance.
[00:25:38.160]So just kind of keep that in mind.
[00:25:41.040]Is anyone traveling beforehand or after the program,
[00:25:44.400]or is everyone kind of going together as one unit,
[00:25:46.980]and then coming back?
[00:25:51.750]No, I mean, we have with Valerie,
[00:25:56.640]who's traveling in a bit sooner than the program dates,
[00:26:00.630]but rest of the students so far,
[00:26:04.260]I'm still waiting on Jesse's flight info
[00:26:07.290]and Sam's flight info,
[00:26:08.580]but my understanding is they're just attending the program.
[00:26:12.960]Okay.
[00:26:13.793]Please correct me if I'm wrong.
[00:26:15.260](laughs) Well, just keep in mind,
[00:26:19.380]if you do travel personally before program or after program,
[00:26:24.210]you can extend the coverage, it's only a $1.50 a day.
[00:26:28.230]So if you're going somewhere else in Asia
[00:26:30.690]or somewhere else in the world,
[00:26:32.820]I would strongly encourage you to extend the coverage
[00:26:37.170]to cover those personal days.
[00:26:41.370]You can pay for those days via just with a credit card.
[00:26:45.510]It's pretty simple.
[00:26:48.810]Any questions about insurance?
[00:26:50.220]It's a lot to kind of cover,
[00:26:52.800]and I never really understood insurance
[00:26:54.510]until I was quite a bit older, so.
[00:26:57.960]Please check the link in the chat,
[00:27:01.410]so that you can learn more about the AIG insurance
[00:27:04.320]that we offer.
[00:27:06.120]On that webpage, it also has the policy number,
[00:27:11.370]and you can click on the link AIG portal,
[00:27:14.550]and you can learn more about it.
[00:27:17.190]But basically, if you have to use a clinic there,
[00:27:21.960]just pay upfront,
[00:27:23.400]and then you'll get reimbursed once you come back.
[00:27:27.210]But you'll be really surprised
[00:27:29.940]how affordable things are in South Korea.
[00:27:34.410]For example, like if you went to dentist,
[00:27:38.100]it's a lot more cheaper (laughs) uninsured
[00:27:43.290]than using a clinic here insured. (laughs)
[00:27:51.240]Yeah, in general, that is what everyone takes away
[00:27:55.732]from visiting medical care abroad,
[00:27:57.570]is it ends up being significantly cheaper
[00:28:00.690]than what we anticipated.
[00:28:01.860]So please don't be hesitant to access it if we need to.
[00:28:09.480]Along those same lines, I hope everyone's kind of working
[00:28:12.990]on their travel health forms,
[00:28:18.150]Sook Young will valiantly chase you around
[00:28:21.540]until you get your health forms into her.
[00:28:24.960]If you haven't done it yet,
[00:28:26.100]I would encourage you to visit our travel nurse
[00:28:28.650]at the University Health Center,
[00:28:30.960]her name Suha, and she's wonderful.
[00:28:33.360]And so if you can find time on her schedule,
[00:28:36.060]if you haven't done it yet,
[00:28:38.040]she's excellent way to do the health clearance process.
[00:28:43.800]If you are taking prescription meds into South Korea,
[00:28:49.500]please make sure you are taking them
[00:28:51.810]in the original container,
[00:28:54.150]that they have your name on them,
[00:28:56.550]and that you're taking a reasonable amount, right?
[00:28:59.760]Please don't take, you know, months and months of meds.
[00:29:05.610]Medications are kind of a funny thing.
[00:29:07.200]They should really never come up.
[00:29:08.820]You don't need to declare them at customs
[00:29:10.860]or anything like that.
[00:29:11.700]But there are plenty of rules around them
[00:29:13.980]that we need to make sure that we comply with,
[00:29:16.260]even though it should really never come up
[00:29:18.540]in any sort of general sense, right?
[00:29:20.157]And so please make sure your prescription meds are with you
[00:29:25.410]in your carry-on bag, right?
[00:29:27.900]Please don't put 'em in your check bag.
[00:29:30.060]Inevitably, we end up losing
[00:29:31.680]a couple check bags every summer.
[00:29:34.860]And obviously, you probably wanna keep your meds with you.
[00:29:41.550]And lastly, if you are taking anything,
[00:29:46.200]any prescription med that's in the amphetamine family,
[00:29:50.490]so that's generally kind of the Adderall family
[00:29:53.100]of medications, please get in touch with me afterwards.
[00:29:56.760]There's some kind of special hoops
[00:29:59.370]that are required to jump through
[00:30:01.890]as far as importation into South Korea.
[00:30:04.470]They're very particular about that family of medications
[00:30:08.430]that are in that kind of amphetamine family.
[00:30:12.210]I mean, really, the rest of the world is,
[00:30:13.830]if you look at it more broadly.
[00:30:15.660]The US is one of the only countries that prescribes
[00:30:20.550]those medications in the way that we do, so.
[00:30:24.300]Samila has a question,
[00:30:26.137]"How about supplements, like vitamins?"
[00:30:29.070]And yeah, you can take vitamins to South Korea,
[00:30:32.760]I will put them in a check bag,
[00:30:35.910]as long as you are not taking like whole bunch,
[00:30:39.150]like box of vitamins, like they're not gonna stop you.
[00:30:43.680]And another thing is, some over-the-counter medicines
[00:30:48.720]are a lot more affordable here in the US,
[00:30:51.750]like, for example, Tylenol, things like that.
[00:30:54.750]And when you consider like the amount in a bottle,
[00:30:58.830]and you only pay $10, whereas in South Korea,
[00:31:02.550]I mean, you pay less, but it only has like 10 tablets
[00:31:07.560]in each small box and things like that.
[00:31:09.630]So if there's over-the-counter medicine
[00:31:12.480]that you frequently take,
[00:31:14.310]it's not a bad idea to take them with you.
[00:31:19.410]Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
[00:31:20.580]There's a little note in there about,
[00:31:22.380]you know, bringing a first aid kit.
[00:31:24.930]When we think of first aid, that's not really,
[00:31:27.450]you don't need bandages and things like that.
[00:31:29.940]Really, what we're thinking is,
[00:31:31.800]if there's an over-the-counter med
[00:31:33.330]that works particularly well for you,
[00:31:35.923]I would encourage you to bring a reasonable amount, right?
[00:31:38.850]Someone's gonna have some stomach stuff
[00:31:41.430]at some point in time.
[00:31:42.750]So I'd encourage, you know,
[00:31:44.250]Pepto and Imodium and things like that,
[00:31:46.230]whatever works well for you.
[00:31:49.950]Again, don't go to Costco
[00:31:51.210]and buy 5,000 tabs of ibuprofen,
[00:31:55.560]but bringing a reasonable amount.
[00:31:57.300]You can get the stuff there, like Sook Young said.
[00:31:59.490]But again, if something works particularly well for you,
[00:32:03.210]I'd encourage you to bring just a reasonable amount.
[00:32:10.860]As far as mental health is concerned,
[00:32:13.140]if you are seeing a provider here in the States,
[00:32:15.690]I would really encourage you all to have a conversation
[00:32:19.230]with that provider about what this travel looks like
[00:32:21.690]and how you can stay healthy and well
[00:32:24.840]while you're on this trip.
[00:32:30.060]CAPS is available in the international space, but really,
[00:32:34.170]only in kind of a crisis scenario kind of dynamic.
[00:32:36.990]And so, right, please make sure
[00:32:40.140]that you're planning for your mental health,
[00:32:43.590]you know, how or if you're going to maintain contact
[00:32:47.010]with your provider here in the States,
[00:32:48.660]and making sure that you have kind of wellness plans
[00:32:54.197]to maintain that while you're abroad.
[00:32:59.910]You all will probably experience
[00:33:01.950]a fair amount of jet lag while you travel.
[00:33:05.865]I would encourage you.
[00:33:06.720]A lot of it is just dehydration between the flight
[00:33:10.350]and the odd hours, and things being at weird times.
[00:33:14.820]So please just make sure
[00:33:16.470]that you stay more hydrated than you think you need to.
[00:33:20.880]We are kind of toying around
[00:33:23.010]with an application called Timeshifter
[00:33:25.920]that is supposed to help with jet lag.
[00:33:31.920]It's kind of an interesting concept, right?
[00:33:33.930]The idea is to reset your circadian clock
[00:33:38.430]to the time of where you're going.
[00:33:41.670]And so your first trip is free.
[00:33:45.360]And some people have found it really helpful.
[00:33:47.577]And so if you download that app and put your trip in,
[00:33:52.140]you know, about a week before the trip,
[00:33:53.760]it will start telling you to do some pretty specific things
[00:33:56.280]at specific times, like two o'clock in the afternoon,
[00:34:00.060]you should be out in the sun,
[00:34:01.620]or you should try and take a nap,
[00:34:03.690]or you should eat a snack at different times, right?
[00:34:06.240]And the idea is that to start turning
[00:34:08.490]that circadian clock forward some.
[00:34:11.460]And we've had folks to find it helpful.
[00:34:18.930]One of the other expectations is around communication,
[00:34:22.710]that everyone maintains a cell phone
[00:34:25.830]that works on South Korean towers.
[00:34:29.820]Generally, the easiest way to do this for everyone
[00:34:32.160]will be to get in touch with your provider here
[00:34:36.390]in the States and turn on your global plan,
[00:34:39.990]whether that's, you know, whoever it is,
[00:34:41.763]AT&T or Verizon or T-Mobile, or whatever it is.
[00:34:46.200]But there's other ways to do it.
[00:34:49.530]But for the amount of time
[00:34:51.030]that you all are going to be abroad,
[00:34:53.190]that's really just the easiest
[00:34:54.450]and most cost-effective way to do it.
[00:34:58.020]Most of our newer phones do have eSIMs in them,
[00:35:01.287]and you can look at purchasing one of those online.
[00:35:04.110]You kind of,
[00:35:05.160]something that you kind of download to your phone,
[00:35:07.950]but it's a electronic SIM card.
[00:35:11.070]We haven't had the best luck with them yet.
[00:35:14.250]We've been kind of testing them out
[00:35:15.720]in different environments, but we haven't really tested them
[00:35:18.690]in South Korea all that significantly.
[00:35:20.490]And so, really, please think about how you're going
[00:35:24.840]to manage your cell phone,
[00:35:27.810]and think about a communication plan with folks back home.
[00:35:33.630]You know, there's a relatively small group,
[00:35:36.600]but we'll have some mothers call the office
[00:35:38.790]at some point in time.
[00:35:39.930]And generally, it's mothers, it's not fathers.
[00:35:43.260]And they will be wondering where you are and why you died,
[00:35:47.730]and why we didn't let them know that you died
[00:35:50.040]in a timely fashion,
[00:35:51.360]and why we are not taking care of you,
[00:35:54.510]just 'cause they haven't heard from you, right?
[00:35:57.810]And you're probably still flying over an ocean
[00:36:00.270]or something like that.
[00:36:01.620]So please just, if you have the opportunity,
[00:36:03.780]set some expectations for people back here,
[00:36:07.080]who expect to hear from you,
[00:36:09.000]about how often they should hear from you
[00:36:10.740]and when they should hear from you,
[00:36:12.327]and how they should hear from you, and things like that.
[00:36:14.340]And it's fine, we're happy to talk to moms when they call,
[00:36:18.060]but just kind of bear in mind that you can kind of ease some
[00:36:21.390]of their stress if you set that up beforehand.
[00:36:32.040]As far as money goes, you know, the best exchange rate
[00:36:35.970]that you will get is generally using your debit card
[00:36:41.220]in a South Korean ATM.
[00:36:43.710]And you'll get the, you know,
[00:36:44.880]the bank exchange rate for that day,
[00:36:47.610]it's generally the best exchange rate.
[00:36:51.186]The caveat to that is, you know,
[00:36:53.070]depending on what US bank you use,
[00:36:56.160]they can charge you a lot of fees for using a foreign ATM.
[00:37:01.650]And so, generally,
[00:37:02.550]the second best thing is to use an exchange desk,
[00:37:06.930]you know, like a Forex desk, or an exchange bureau,
[00:37:09.990]where you exchange US dollars for South Korean.
[00:37:16.290]And generally, the rule for those is,
[00:37:17.970]the further away from an airport you are,
[00:37:20.130]the better the exchange rate is, right?
[00:37:21.840]And so if you're in the airport in Seoul,
[00:37:25.260]then the exchange rate will be okay,
[00:37:27.570]but if you could wait until you get into town,
[00:37:30.360]you generally get a better exchange rate.
[00:37:34.560]The last way you could get, you know,
[00:37:37.440]South Korean currency is,
[00:37:39.720]you can actually ask your bank here in the States
[00:37:42.510]to order some for you in advance of your trip,
[00:37:45.720]and they can do that, and it's a terrible exchange rate.
[00:37:48.510]But if you're really passionate
[00:37:49.920]about having that money in your hand before you go,
[00:37:53.130]it's certainly an option.
[00:37:56.820]Sook Young, tell me if I'm wrong,
[00:37:58.680]but I'm pretty sure you could get through almost
[00:38:00.600]the entire trip with just cards,
[00:38:05.160]that cash is really not that much of a necessity anymore.
[00:38:09.480]Correct, not in 2025.
[00:38:13.800]Like almost every place would accept debit card
[00:38:17.490]or a credit card.
[00:38:21.810]If you are gonna bring cards,
[00:38:23.070]I would encourage you to just think about having contingency
[00:38:26.130]for personal funding.
[00:38:27.330]And what I mean by that is bringing one or two card,
[00:38:30.780]or sorry, bringing two cards or a card and some cash,
[00:38:34.770]and keeping them in the same place, right?
[00:38:36.720]And so if you do lose one card,
[00:38:39.210]or one card gets picked up and scammed,
[00:38:41.880]that you can switch to another card, right?
[00:38:43.770]And so that you can kind of maintain your personal funding
[00:38:48.480]without being too disrupted.
[00:38:51.510]And I encourage you to take pictures of things.
[00:38:54.510]So take pictures of your credit cards,
[00:38:56.310]front and back, debit cards, front and back,
[00:38:57.930]that sort of thing, and your passport.
[00:38:59.400]And it's just really easy now that we have phones
[00:39:03.284]with good cameras on them
[00:39:04.380]that just take as many pictures as you have,
[00:39:06.150]and that you've got the phone number
[00:39:07.917]and the card number if you do need the call and cancel it,
[00:39:11.640]or something like that.
[00:39:13.410]One advice would be, so when you go to Korea,
[00:39:16.890]and then we are gonna use some of the public transportation
[00:39:19.920]with the transportation card
[00:39:22.290]provided by the affiliated local institution,
[00:39:27.270]that means you are gonna charge some of, you know,
[00:39:30.233]you are gonna charge that card with some of the cash
[00:39:33.960]with the local currency.
[00:39:36.120]So just a little bit of money,
[00:39:39.600]like less than 50 or 100 dollars would be enough, I think.
[00:39:45.630]Or if you think of carrying cash, like no more than 100.
[00:39:49.920]Like other things can be paid with cards,
[00:39:53.100]but just in case, yeah.
[00:39:56.580]Yeah, adding to that,
[00:39:59.427]and if you go to a traditional market or on streets,
[00:40:02.850]there are street vendors.
[00:40:04.380]I don't know if you've seen those like hotdog
[00:40:06.510]or tteokbokki on streets.
[00:40:08.100]That's also fun, and it's also, you know,
[00:40:11.160]another global experience you can have.
[00:40:13.830]And those street vendors may not accept credit cards,
[00:40:17.460]or they would and frowning upon (laughs) using it.
[00:40:21.780]So, yeah, it's actually,
[00:40:23.310]it's nice to have a bit of cash in your pocket.
[00:40:33.694]I would encourage you all to think
[00:40:34.890]about getting a power of attorney form.
[00:40:37.890]So this would grant someone else the ability
[00:40:40.320]to make financial decisions on your behalf
[00:40:42.300]when you're out of the country,
[00:40:43.590]or if you're not able to make those things.
[00:40:48.150]Generally, I wouldn't bother with it,
[00:40:49.890]but student legal services in the union
[00:40:52.920]can make these for free for you all as a student.
[00:40:56.790]And so I would encourage you, it would take 5,
[00:41:00.210]10 minutes of time to have them do that for you.
[00:41:03.750]And it would give, you know, someone trusted in your life
[00:41:06.630]the ability to kind of make those decisions
[00:41:09.810]while you're out of pocket, so to speak.
[00:41:14.610]Please make sure
[00:41:15.690]you have all your travel documentation in order.
[00:41:19.290]If you're an international student, please make sure
[00:41:21.300]that you've visited with ISSO before departure
[00:41:24.420]and that you've gotten your travel signature
[00:41:26.790]and things like that from them.
[00:41:30.463]I would encourage you all, for your emergency contact,
[00:41:33.630]to think about them having a passport.
[00:41:36.270]We've never had to use it, but our insurance
[00:41:38.760]does have something called a bedside benefit.
[00:41:41.700]So if you are in hospital for three days or more,
[00:41:47.850]there's a claim that we can make against insurance
[00:41:50.190]for someone to be at your side in the hospital,
[00:41:55.020]and it'd be, you know,
[00:41:55.853]your emergency contact here from the States.
[00:41:57.810]And so we can do that,
[00:41:59.880]but we can't do that if they don't have a passport, so.
[00:42:08.460]Any concerns about traveling through immigration
[00:42:11.220]or anything like that?
[00:42:12.150]I mean, we generally have very little issues
[00:42:15.180]going through immigration,
[00:42:16.800]but it does tend to be kind of anxiety-producing
[00:42:21.210]in some folks.
[00:42:24.690]I'd encourage you to bear in mind, right,
[00:42:27.780]the more time you give yourself,
[00:42:29.250]the less anxious that we generally are.
[00:42:33.900]So building time into your schedules is a certain,
[00:42:37.020]makes everything a little bit easier
[00:42:38.940]from an anxiety standpoint.
[00:42:41.490]If you're concerned about passport control or customs,
[00:42:44.430]or things like that, when you enter Korea, please make sure,
[00:42:48.990]remember that the immigration officer who's,
[00:42:52.170]you know, who's going to stamp your passport,
[00:42:55.140]they're generally a pretty grumpy individual.
[00:42:58.530]They have to stand in a box in a glass cage
[00:43:01.890]for eight hours a day,
[00:43:04.410]and I think that would make anybody grumpy.
[00:43:08.130]But it's their job to ask questions
[00:43:10.080]about you coming into the country, right?
[00:43:11.610]And so, really, the only time we ever have any issues
[00:43:15.510]around immigration officers is...
[00:43:19.980]Like, bear in mind,
[00:43:20.813]you all will be on tourist visas and not on student visas.
[00:43:24.570]And tourist visas are the right visas for you all.
[00:43:30.330]But if you start talking about you're a student,
[00:43:33.240]and you're going to do this and this
[00:43:34.950]and such and such educational things in country,
[00:43:38.910]sometimes certain immigration officers can take that
[00:43:41.397]and kind of run with it,
[00:43:43.260]and start asking you, you know, "Where's your student visa?
[00:43:45.690]And why don't you have a student visa?
[00:43:47.220]And you should have something like that."
[00:43:49.050]And you shouldn't.
[00:43:51.390]You only need a student visa
[00:43:52.770]if you are enrolling in a South Korean university, right?
[00:43:57.030]And that's not what we're doing.
[00:43:59.100]You're on the appropriate visa,
[00:44:00.720]but do your best to not get stuck in the student visa loop,
[00:44:04.860]'cause that's a challenging loop
[00:44:07.740]when immigration officers kind of get stuck in that.
[00:44:11.370]So you're there as you happen to be a student, but yeah,
[00:44:15.030]you're on an educational tourism kind of dynamic, right?
[00:44:24.360]Yeah. Was there a question?
[00:44:28.170]Yes. Sorry.
[00:44:29.970]Yeah, I did have a question about that.
[00:44:31.380]I just recently came back from like Cuba,
[00:44:33.300]so I kind of like practiced what I was supposed to say,
[00:44:35.190]even though I know I was there
[00:44:36.180]for the right reasons and everything.
[00:44:37.620]But when we are approached, or when we do get in line,
[00:44:40.890]what exactly are we saying to them,
[00:44:42.563]so that way we don't get thrown in the wrong like bucket?
[00:44:47.795]Travel.
[00:44:49.364]Travel? If somebody asks you,
[00:44:51.007]"What is the purpose of your travel?"
[00:44:54.000]Then your answer is, "Travel, tour, tourism."
[00:44:58.080]Tourism, okay, perfect. Thank you.
[00:45:00.090]Yep.
[00:45:01.830]And as far as you show, you know,
[00:45:03.780]the return ticket, they don't care.
[00:45:07.770]Yeah.
[00:45:08.603]As long as they know you're not trying to live there, yeah.
[00:45:14.310]Yeah, that's cool that you went to Cuba,
[00:45:15.810]a little bit different dynamic,
[00:45:17.010]but yeah, I'd love to hear about that at one point.
[00:45:21.780]As far as coming back to the US,
[00:45:23.850]we are seeing some increase in device searches coming back
[00:45:30.390]across the border into the US.
[00:45:33.360]This is something that the new administration
[00:45:36.570]has said that they're doing.
[00:45:38.640]And we've seen some,
[00:45:42.030]the percentage of device searches go up
[00:45:46.470]in the last month or so.
[00:45:49.050]What the new administration says they are looking for
[00:45:51.600]is antisemitic activity.
[00:45:54.450]So just kind of bear that in mind.
[00:45:58.740]There's some argument to be made that their definition
[00:46:02.580]of antisemitic activity is pretty broad.
[00:46:05.700]So I'd be really thoughtful
[00:46:06.840]about what my device says about me
[00:46:09.390]when I was crossing the border, coming back into the us.
[00:46:14.460]Let me back up just a little bit.
[00:46:15.690]I think it's important to understand the magnitude
[00:46:18.270]of what we're talking about, right?
[00:46:19.590]And so, yes, we are seeing an increase,
[00:46:23.250]but there's over a million traveler, no, sorry,
[00:46:25.890]there's almost a million travelers
[00:46:27.630]coming into the US every day,
[00:46:30.210]and we're seeing a few thousand device searches, right?
[00:46:34.530]And so, statistically,
[00:46:36.450]you're unlikely to be impacted by it.
[00:46:39.450]But because we have seen a, you know,
[00:46:42.480]a rise, we just do wanna highlight it,
[00:46:45.750]that the immigration officer coming back into the country
[00:46:49.380]does have the right to search your phone.
[00:46:52.020]Your Fourth Amendment is not quite in effect
[00:46:57.060]according to the courts when we're at the border.
[00:47:00.300]If you're a US citizen,
[00:47:01.290]you can deny them access to your device.
[00:47:05.220]What will likely happen if you deny them access
[00:47:08.760]is that they'll probably seize the device,
[00:47:11.370]and then a judge will have to adjudicate
[00:47:13.560]when you can have that device back.
[00:47:15.240]And so you'll probably get it back.
[00:47:19.170]If you wanna live without your phone for three months,
[00:47:22.080]then you could do that.
[00:47:24.930]That's probably not what I would do.
[00:47:26.430]What I would do is think about what my phone says about me
[00:47:30.210]before I cross the border.
[00:47:31.800]I'd be willing to turn over my phone
[00:47:34.050]because it doesn't really say anything negative about me,
[00:47:38.130]or antisemitism, or anything like that.
[00:47:42.720]The border official has kind of two search options.
[00:47:47.520]He can do a basic search,
[00:47:49.020]or they can do a basic search, which is,
[00:47:51.480]they should put it on airplane mode before they search,
[00:47:54.390]'cause they're only allowed
[00:47:55.590]to search what's physically on the device,
[00:47:59.490]and that's just kind of scrolling through the device
[00:48:01.740]and seeing what is kind of readily apparent on the device.
[00:48:06.180]If that leads them to be more suspicious of something,
[00:48:09.360]then they can do an advanced search,
[00:48:11.550]which is actually downloading the entirety of the device
[00:48:15.270]on something else,
[00:48:16.710]and then they can search it more profusely after that.
[00:48:19.797]And so, you know, for non-US citizens,
[00:48:24.660]this is more of a challenge.
[00:48:26.910]If you were to deny
[00:48:30.030]the immigration officer's ability to search your device,
[00:48:33.180]they're likely going to turn you around
[00:48:35.670]and send you back home if you're not a US citizen.
[00:48:40.920]So just as a note,
[00:48:43.140]we've seen an increase in device searches
[00:48:46.050]coming back into the us, it is antisemitism related.
[00:48:49.500]And so, you know, if I had things that were on my phone
[00:48:54.480]that were potentially negative or, you know,
[00:49:00.270]this administration would view it as negative,
[00:49:03.150]and I had it on my, you know,
[00:49:04.650]my Facebook or my whatever social media app,
[00:49:08.130]I would potentially think about signing out
[00:49:10.410]of that application and deleting it from my phone
[00:49:12.900]before I cross the border, and then crossing the border,
[00:49:16.113]and then reinstalling it on my phone.
[00:49:19.590]So totally an option.
[00:49:21.660]Just kind of think about that, you know,
[00:49:25.351]prior to engaging with the border,
[00:49:27.390]but is statistically really not that likely to impact you.
[00:49:33.899]All right, and last slide,
[00:49:35.400]this is just packing tips from former students
[00:49:40.590]that have kind of gone before you.
[00:49:43.530]Certainly, packing light, bringing good walking shoes
[00:49:47.910]are always kind of top of the mind.
[00:49:50.490]Those little TSA luggage locks are not the scariest thing
[00:49:53.970]in the world, but I kind of like them.
[00:49:57.180]It still lets you kind of secure your stuff
[00:49:59.220]if you have to leave it somewhere.
[00:50:03.090]And yes, it could be broken into,
[00:50:05.100]but at least you know that somebody broke into your stuff
[00:50:09.330]if they did, if it is broken, right?
[00:50:11.490]So just some notes from former students,
[00:50:18.270]Sook Young, anything I missed?
[00:50:20.370]Anything you wanna add to?
[00:50:23.100]Oh, I have so much, I'm so excited for you guys.
[00:50:25.740]And I'm jealous, and I'm not jealous, I am jealous.
[00:50:28.890]So when you go to the airport on the departure day,
[00:50:35.070]whether it's Lincoln or Omaha, and-

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