SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The latest data from the Korea Medical Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Agency showed that six out of ten medical disputes filed by foreigners were from Chinese nationals, with plastic surgery leading in terms of medical specialties. According to the data, the agency had 598 consultation cases from foreign patients [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – As China continues to withdraw its tourists from South Korea over a political issue surrounding the deployment of a THAAD missile defense system, South Korea’s tourism industry is looking to Russia to fill the gap left by what was once its biggest source of profits. According to the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will host a medical tourism exhibition in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to lure more Middle Eastern patients in need of advanced treatment, the state-run tourism agency said Monday. The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will co-host the “Korea International [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will expand support for wellness tourism to attract health-conscious tourists across the world by combining it with unique local content such as beauty, oriental medicine, food and public saunas, the government said Wednesday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism hosted the “International Forum on Wellness Tourism [...]
SEJONG, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has revealed that the tourists spending the largest sums while visiting Korea were from the Middle East. A large portion of the spending was related to shopping and medical services including cosmetic surgery. According to OECD data, 14.2 million tourists visited Korea in 2014, for a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) -The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Friday that it has opened a website that provides information on medical tourism programs in the city in four languages. The Medical Tour Seoul web site (http://medicaltourseoul.com) aims to help foreigners coming to the city for medical tours in English, Chinese, Japanese and Russian, according [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign patients receiving plastic surgery in South Korea has shot up 13-fold since 2010 thanks to Chinese tourists, a report showed Thursday. The number of foreigners visiting cosmetic clinics operating in South Korea reached 36,224 last year, up from 2,851 tallied in 2009, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A counselling office will be established for foreign patients to receive support in medical disputes such as medical malpractice and overcharging. The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that the government will run a medical dispute counseling office for foreign patients, as part of its plan to attract 300,000 foreign [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Medical tourism is on the rise as a blue ocean in Korea. On May 21, according to the government and related industries, the number of medical tourists has exceeded 210,000 and local governments are setting up medical tourism complexes aiming to make the magnet of medical tourism. The Ministry [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 28 (Korea Bizwire) – For those foreign tourists who want medical services in Korea, the Korean Tourism Organization (KTO) plans to run a “Concierge Service” that picks them up at the airport to designated medical facilities. From March this year, KTO will begin the full-fledged service at the Medical Tourism Information Center [...]