Daejeon and Chungcheong Medical Tourism

How many registered hospitals and clinics are behind Daejeon and Chungcheong medical tourism?

80 in 2022 across the four regions, or 4.0% of the 2,023 nationwide (80 ÷ 2,023). Daejeon had 29, Chungbuk and Chungnam 25 each, and Sejong 1.

The national figure is a sum of the 17 regional values in the source. Daejeon accounts for 36.3% of the four-region count (29 ÷ 80), down from 50.5% in 2016. A registered institution is a hospital or clinic that has registered with its city or provincial governor so that it can attract foreign patients. These statistics do not show how many foreign patients were treated in Daejeon or the Chungcheong provinces.

How has the number of Daejeon and Chungcheong medical tourism institutions changed over the years?

The four-region count was highest in 2016, at 196, and less than half of that in 2017, at 79. Its lowest year was 2020 (61), and it stood at 80 in 2022.

The four regions lost 117 institutions in 2017, and 63 of those were in Daejeon. Daejeon went from 99 to 36, Chungbuk from 55 to 27 and Chungnam from 41 to 16. That was the year in which the renewal deadline for institutions already registered passed, in June. How the rules changed is explained in Why Korea's Registered Hospitals Fell from 3,115 to 1,664 in 2017.

Daejeon's figure was between 55 and 99 through 2016 and has been between 23 and 44 from 2017 on. No year since 2017 is above the 55 recorded in 2009. The four-region count fell by 38 in 2020 and rose by 11 in 2022. The source holds yearly numbers only and gives no reason for the change in Daejeon. The national figures for the same years are in What Happened to Korea's Registered Hospitals During COVID-19?.

How large is Daejeon and Chungcheong medical tourism compared with the rest of Korea?

4.0% of the national total in 2022. The share was between 5.6% and 6.4% through 2016 and has been lower, between 4.0% and 5.0%, from 2017 on.

Daejeon ranked 7th of the 17 regions in 2022. In 2009 it was 5th. Chungbuk and Chungnam were tied at 9th, and Sejong was 17th. The four-region share was highest in 2015, at 6.4%. A table that sets these regions beside the others is in Korea Medical Tourism Hospitals by Region.

Where can you find Daejeon and Chungcheong medical tourism figures after 2022?

They are in a list from the Korea Health Industry Development Institute dated 21 Jul 2026. It has 138 medical institutions and 74 facilitators in the four regions, of which 58 and 30 are in Daejeon.

The list figures cannot be joined to the 2022 statistics to describe a rise or fall. The yearly statistics do not say what exactly they count, and the list is a roll of institutions whose registration status was "maintained" on 21 Jul 2026. Sejong has 1 in the statistics and 5 on the list, the smallest of the four regions in both sources. The four regions hold 3.3% of the 4,188 medical institutions on the whole list (138 ÷ 4,188).

Which official offices handle Daejeon and Chungcheong medical tourism?

The Medical Korea list of official websites has 2 entries for Daejeon, 1 for Chungbuk and 1 for Chungnam, and none for Sejong. Every one of the 4 addresses opened when checked on 5 Oct 2026.

Daejeon is listed twice, once for the city's health policy department and once for the body the source calls Daejeon International Marketing Enterprise(DIME). Chungbuk and Chungnam each have one entry, the welfare policy division of the provincial government. All 22 local offices in the country are in Medical Tourism Offices in Korea by Region.

What should you keep in mind when reading the figures on Daejeon and Chungcheong medical tourism?

The source file does not define its figures. Neither the file nor the portal description says whether a number is the count of institutions holding a registration at year end or the count registered during that year. It is also a different statistic from the number of patients treated.

The 2022 national share depends on the value recorded for Gyeonggi. The source has 151 for Gyeonggi in 2021 and 12 in 2022, with no reason given. The national total of 2,023 and the four-region share of 4.0% are calculated with that value as it stands. Sejong's value is 0 or 1 in all 14 years, and the source offers no reason or explanation. The fact that Daejeon's figure is smaller than before 2017 says nothing by itself about the standard or cost of care at institutions there.

Where do the figures on Daejeon and Chungcheong medical tourism come from, and how were they calculated?

The figures are taken as published from "Medical institutions registered to attract foreign patients, by year and region", a file the Korea Health Industry Development Institute released on the Korean Public Data Portal (data as of 31 Dec 2022). The file lists 17 regions and has no national total, so K-Medical Tourism Institute added the 17 regional values to get the nationwide figures, and calculated shares and changes from the same values.

The 21 Jul 2026 figures are counts by region and institution type from "Registered institutions and facilitators for foreign patients (list)", a 6,921-row list published by the same institute. 33 rows have the word "test" in the institution or representative name. They could not be told apart from real entries with certainty and were left in, so the true number of institutions may be slightly lower.

The list reproduces the names and addresses of the 36 entries in "Medical Korea list of useful websites for medical tourism", published by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute on the Korean Public Data Portal (data as of 29 Aug 2023). The source has no categories or regions; K-Medical Tourism Institute added them. The link check is K-Medical Tourism Institute's own: each address was opened on 5 Oct 2026, with 32 opening, 1 with a changed path, 1 that could not be verified automatically and 2 not responding.