Association of Korean Medicine Archives

Doctors Clash Over ‘Moon Jae-in Care’

SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean doctors in the fields of Korean medicine and Western medicine are clashing over ‘Moon Jae-in Care’, an initiative to expand national health insurance coverage to include ultrasounds and MRI scans. In a statement, the Association of Korean Medicine, a group representing doctors of traditional Korean medicine, condemned doctors [...]

Korean Medical Association Rejects Oriental Medical Treatment for Dementia

SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Association of Korean Medicine (AKOM), which dropped the word “oriental” from its English name several years ago to supposedly reduce Western cultural prejudices, is clashing with the Korean Medical Association (KMA), again, over the launch of a pilot project promoting traditional Korean medical treatment as an alternative for elderly dementia [...]