SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s dermatology clinics have emerged as the country’s leading draw for foreign medical tourists, with patient numbers skyrocketing more than 100-fold over the past decade and a half. According to a report released Thursday by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, 705,044 foreign patients received dermatological treatment in [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — About 800 medical and wellness tourists will visit South Korea in groups from this month to September, a government tourism promotional agency said Wednesday, calling it a sign of recovery for the local tourism industry that has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. The first group of about [...]
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 [...]