Korea Plans to Focus on Medical Tourism

November 4, 2014

(Korea Times) – Korea aims to quadruple the number of foreigners visiting here for medical purposes to 1 million by 2020 with the main focus of advertising being the Middle East, the nation’s top health officer said in a recent interview. “The number of medical tourists is expected to reach 250,000 this year,” Health and Welfare Minister Moon Hyung-pyo said. “Our goal is to see 1 million medical tourists in a year by 2020.”