Incheon and Gyeonggi Medical Tourism

How many hospitals are registered for Incheon and Gyeonggi medical tourism?

116 in 2022: 104 in Incheon and 12 in Gyeonggi. That is 5.7% of the 2,023 institutions in all 17 regions added together (116 ÷ 2,023).

The Gyeonggi figure of 12 for 2022 is printed here exactly as it appears in the source. It was 151 in 2021, and in no year from 2009 to 2021 did it go below 140. The source gives no reason for the difference. Every 2022 total and share for Incheon and Gyeonggi includes this value.

The institutions counted are hospitals and clinics that have registered in order to attract foreign patients, and under the current law that registration is made with the city or provincial governor. Because it counts registrations, the figure is a different statistic from the number of foreign patients treated in Incheon and Gyeonggi.

How has the count for Incheon and Gyeonggi medical tourism changed year by year?

The highest count was 459 in 2016, followed by 211 in 2017. The figure stood at 232 in 2021 and is recorded as 116 for 2022.

In 2017 Incheon went from 103 to 53 and Gyeonggi from 356 to 158, a combined fall of 248. Under a law in force since June 2016, institutions that were already registered had to renew within one year, and that year ended in 2017. The background is in Why Korea's Registered Hospitals Fell from 3,115 to 1,664 in 2017.

The fall of 116 in 2022 comes from the Gyeonggi figure. Gyeonggi is recorded 139 lower while Incheon rose by 23 (-139 + 23 = -116). For Incheon alone, the 2022 count of 104 is the highest of the 14 years. In 2020 the combined count fell by 67; the national figures for that period are in What Happened to Korea's Registered Hospitals During COVID-19?.

What share of Korea's total does Incheon and Gyeonggi medical tourism hold?

5.7% in 2022. From 2009 to 2021 the share stayed between 12.7% and 15.5%, and the 2022 share is calculated with Gyeonggi at 12.

Gyeonggi had the second-largest count of the 17 regions in every year from 2009 to 2021 except 2011, when it was 3rd, and is recorded as 14th in 2022. Incheon moved from 6th in 2009 to 4th in 2022, and its share of the national total grew from 3.3% to 5.1% over the same period.

Figures for all 17 regions are in Korea Medical Tourism Hospitals by Region, and neighboring Seoul has its own page, Seoul Medical Tourism.

Where can you find Incheon and Gyeonggi medical tourism figures after 2022?

They can be counted from a list the same institute published as of 21 Jul 2026. It has 192 medical institutions in Incheon and 477 in Gyeonggi, 669 in all.

Gyeonggi stands at 12 in the 2022 statistics and 477 on the list. The two numbers cannot be joined up to say that Gyeonggi grew by that much. The yearly statistics carry no definition of what they count, while the list names the institutions whose registration status was "maintained" on 21 Jul 2026. Within the list, Incheon and Gyeonggi account for 16.0% (669 ÷ 4,188).

Which official offices handle Incheon and Gyeonggi medical tourism?

The Medical Korea list of official websites has 2 entries for Incheon and 2 for Gyeonggi. As written in the source, they are: Incheon Metropolitan City Health and Medical Policy Division, Incheon Tourism Organization, Gyeonggi Province Health and Medical Treatment Division and (Gyeonggi Province) Gyeonggi Tourism Organization.

K-Medical Tourism Institute opened each address on 5 Oct 2026, and all 4 opened. Each region has one government division and one tourism organization on the list, and the addresses in the source are the home pages of those bodies with no path to a department page. Contacts for other regions are in Medical Tourism Offices in Korea by Region.

What should you keep in mind when reading the figures on Incheon and Gyeonggi 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 totals for Incheon and Gyeonggi and for the whole country, and the shares and ranks based on them, all include Gyeonggi at 12. Incheon and Gyeonggi are not an official zone; they are two neighboring regions placed on one page. The source has no figures below the regional level, so the numbers cannot be split by city or district. Nor do the counts say anything about the quality or cost of care in either region.

Where do the figures on Incheon and Gyeonggi 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.