First visit to the Doctor in Korea

For almost a week now I have been having trouble breathing, had very stuffy nose and head etc. Well my nose was red and sore and even with taking Claritin D eyes were still watering and not sleeping well. So everyone at school was comenting about me being sick but by Monday was feeling some better after resting all weekend. Well I found out that here in Korean if you are sick at all you go see a Doctor. I thought I might have had a simple cold or possibly very bad sinus/allegeries or a sinus infection.
This was something I did not see a reason to go to the Doctor for as I brought cold/sinus medicines with me from the states. Well everyone here in Korean did not understand why I did not want to go to the Doctor.
So Tuesday during my lunch break one of my bosses and I headed to the near-by Doctor's office. The people in the office and the Doctor spoke very little English so I was glad I had someone with me to transalate. From what I could tell the nurses etc. spoke no English and the Doctor's English was limited to-Open and say AHH!!!!
We had no appointment which from what I understand is typical in Korea but were seen very quickly.
My boss answered a few questions for the doctor, he tried to look at my throat but I started gagging when he shoved a metal tongue-depressor in my mouth and the doctor kept saying in Korean that no matter how I moved my tongue he still could not get a good look of my throat.
So he listened to me breathe for a minute with his stethoscope and pronounced it a sinus cold and prescribed 5 medcines for me to take 3 times a day for 3 days.
I have Korean Health Insurance through work and I pay half and my employer's pay half. The cost of the doctor's visit with my insurance was 3,500 won which is equal to like $3.50 in the US.
Yes I said I paid $3.50 to see the doctor and then my prescription was only $2.50. They put each dose of medicine in little small,invidually sealed, plastic bags-morning, afternoon, evening etc.
I was to take my medicine 3 times a day after eating and told the medicine could make me dizzy and sleepy and if I had any major problems to come back and see the doctor.
Well the medicine did not make me sleepy instead I had an awful time trying to sleep last night and in the middle of the night woke up way more congested than I had been in days and then could not go back to sleep.
This morning the congestion is still really bad-again much worse than it had been since before I started taking the Clartin D.
Ofcourse I have not taken my am medicines yet as I have to wait until 30 minutes after I eat.
Hopefully the medicines will start working so I will not have to go back to the doctor again during today's or tomorrow's lunch break.
TTFN