South Korea boasts world-class medical services. Gangnam in Seoul is a mecca of medical tourism, with the number of medical tourists reaching more than 130,000 (as of 2019). Based on excellent medical technology, manpower, and high-tech facilities, Gangnam provides the best medical services, featuring the even distribution of medical institutions such as general hospitals, medical centers, clinics, and others, all of which are engaged in a wide range of disciplines such as cosmetic surgery and dermatology.
The street from Apgujeong Station to Eulji Hospital Sageori (intersection) intensively consists of a cluster of medical institutions involved in cosmetic surgery and dermatology. The growing interest in K-beauty, as well as in the Korean Wave, has contributed to the increasing number of medical tourists who visit this zone for plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures.
Gangnam Medical Tour Center provides a total medical tourism-related service for medical tourists. Specifically, it offers concierge services for medical tourism that support the entire process: entry into Korea, information on medical institutions, hotel reservations, sightseeing, and interpreting and other language services.
In particular, as therapy based on natural ingredients rather than chemicals has attracted global attention, treatments by traditional Korean herbal medicine have drawn global attention, which have in turn revitalized medical tourism related to oriental medicine. As a result, more and more medical tourists involved visit South Korea every year.
Daegu has been a hub of the distribution of medicinal herbs around the world for over 300 years. In recent years, it has been visited by more tourists from China and Southeast Asia to be treated for respiratory diseases caused by fine dust.
The Herbal Medical Experience Town operates different experience programs, through which people can experience not only oriental medicine through the acupoints acupressure thermotherapy bed and body composition analysis, but also aesthetic medicine through diagnoses of skin aging and scalp conditions and other services.
