SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of foreign patients visiting plastic surgery and dermatological clinics in South Korea, most of whom come for ‘beauty’ purposes, has more than doubled in the last 13 years, data showed Sunday. Among all 293,350 patients from various medical departments last year, 82,374 visited plastic surgery and dermatology [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Health and Welfare, in conjunction with related ministries, unveiled the “Strategy to Revitalize Attraction of Foreign Patients” on Monday. The strategy aims to bolster Korea’s appeal as a premier medical destination. Building upon the impressive influx of foreign patients in recent years, with 248,000 visitors recorded [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Gangnam District office on Sunday announced the appointment of 39 global healthcare coordinators to offer translation services to foreign visitors seeking medical treatment in South Korea. The program, which began in 2011, aims to assist foreign patients visiting clinics in Gangnam District by providing dedicated medical translation services. [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners coming to South Korea for medical treatment is rapidly returning to pre-pandemic levels, data showed Monday. There were 248,000 non-resident foreign individuals who received medical treatment in South Korea last year, indicating a 70.1 percent increase from 2021 and 50 percent of the level reported [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of medical tourists to South Korea tumbled nearly 77 percent in 2020 from a year earlier amid the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Monday. Roughly 117,100 foreign patients visited South Korea last year, down a whopping 76.5 percent from some 497,500 a year earlier, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners visiting South Korea for medical purposes shot up 18 percent last year, government data showed Wednesday. In a report to the National Assembly, the Korea Health Industry Development Institute said over 378,900 foreign nationals arrived here to visit hospitals last year, up from around 321,500 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will open a new center in Shanghai later this year to promote medical tourism, in line with efforts to attract more Chinese medical tourists, the health ministry said Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the center will open in September and will serve as [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — One-day tours for foreign tourists organized by the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) have proven to be popular for international visitors to Korea whose main purpose of visit is for medical treatment. The KTO revealed yesterday that 92 percent of the program’s participants said that they were satisfied with the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreigners on medical tours to South Korea are generally satisfied with the services they receive but feel inconvenienced the most by the language barrier, a survey showed Tuesday. The Korea Tourism Organization canvassed 2,152 medical tourists who visited South Korea last year and found that they gave an average [...]
DAEGU, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – An increasing number of medical tourists from foreign countries are visiting Daegu, surpassing 20,000 for the first time last year. Daegu had nearly 21,000 overseas patients in 2016, up 62.5 percent compared to the year before, making the city the biggest medical tourism destination apart from the Seoul Capital [...]