Gangwon and Jeju Medical Tourism

How many registered hospitals and clinics are behind Gangwon and Jeju medical tourism?

41 in 2022 for the two regions together. Jeju had 33 and Gangwon 8, so 80.5% of them were in Jeju (33 ÷ 41).

In 2009 it was the other way round, with 20 in Gangwon and 9 in Jeju. The two regions hold 2.0% of the 2,023 nationwide, a national figure obtained by adding the 17 regional values in the source. The count is of institutions registered with a city or provincial governor, which makes it a separate statistic from the number of foreign patients who visited Jeju or Gangwon.

How has the number of Gangwon and Jeju medical tourism institutions changed over the years?

Jeju moved between 29 and 42 from 2012 to 2022. Gangwon went from 22 in 2016 to 8 in 2017 and has not been above 12 since.

Gangwon grew from 20 in 2009 to 28 in 2012, then stayed between 22 and 23 from 2013 to 2016. In 2017 it lost 14 and stood at 8, and it has been between 7 and 12 in every year through 2022. In 2017, institutions registered before the law took effect were required to renew their registration. What happened across the country is in Why Korea's Registered Hospitals Fell from 3,115 to 1,664 in 2017.

Jeju had 9 in 2009 and 42 in 2016. It lost 10 in 2017, leaving 32, and then recorded 35 in 2019, 29 in 2020, 31 in 2021 and 33 in 2022. The fall from the year before in 2020 was 6 in Jeju and 5 in Gangwon. The source does not say why the two regions moved differently. The national figures for the same period are in What Happened to Korea's Registered Hospitals During COVID-19?.

How large is Gangwon and Jeju medical tourism compared with the rest of Korea?

2.0% of the national total in 2022 (41 ÷ 2,023). The share stayed between 1.9% and 2.5% in every year from 2009 to 2022 and was highest in 2018.

Jeju ranked 6th of the 17 regions in 2022, after Gwangju and ahead of Daejeon. Compared with 2009, Jeju moved from 15th to 6th and Gangwon from 7th to 16th. Ranks and figures for all regions are in Korea Medical Tourism Hospitals by Region.

Where can you find Gangwon and Jeju medical tourism figures after 2022?

A list dated 21 Jul 2026 has 70 medical institutions in Jeju and 16 in Gangwon. It also has 72 facilitators in Jeju and 23 in Gangwon.

In both regions the list has more facilitators than medical institutions. A facilitator is a business other than a medical institution that has registered separately in order to attract foreign patients, and facilitators are not part of the yearly statistics. The 41 in the 2022 statistics and the 86 on the list are counted in different ways, so a rate of change should not be worked out from the two. The two regions make up 2.1% of the 4,188 medical institutions on the list (86 ÷ 4,188).

Which official offices handle Gangwon and Jeju medical tourism?

None of the 36 entries in the Medical Korea list of official websites is an office in Gangwon or Jeju. What the list does have is nationwide bodies such as the Korea Health Industry Development Institute and the Korea Tourism Organization.

The 5 entries in the table are two of the central bodies in the list, the Korea Health Industry Development Institute and the Korea Tourism Organization, plus the 3 that K-Medical Tourism Institute classed as tourist help and interpretation. On 5 Oct 2026, 4 of the addresses opened and the address for KNPA(Korea Tourist Police) could not be verified automatically. By law, a medical institution registers with its city or provincial governor. The source does not name the departments that handle this in Gangwon and Jeju or give their addresses, so none are shown. Offices in other regions are in Medical Tourism Offices in Korea by Region, and the full list is in Official Medical Tourism Websites in Korea. Contacts for dispute mediation, reporting and interpretation have their own page, Help for Foreign Patients in Korea.

What should you keep in mind when reading the figures on Gangwon and Jeju 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.

Gangwon's 2022 value is in single digits. The move from 7 in 2021 to 8 in 2022 is a difference of 1, which is 14.3% as a rate (1 ÷ 7). The 2022 ranking includes the 12 recorded for Gyeonggi, which had 151 in 2021, and the source gives no reason for the difference. Jeju's rank of 6th, Gangwon's rank of 16th and the two-region share of 2.0% are all calculated with it included. The counts cannot be used to compare the standard or cost of care, or conditions for visitors, in Jeju and Gangwon, and the source has no such items.

Where do the figures on Gangwon and Jeju 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.