Medical Tourism Offices in Korea by Region

How many regional medical tourism offices in Korea are listed, and in which regions?

22. 14 of the 17 regions have at least one entry, and 3 have none: Gangwon, Jeju and Sejong.

The most entries for one region is 3 (Seoul). 6 regions have two each (Busan, Daegu, Incheon, Gwangju, Daejeon and Gyeonggi) and 7 have one each (Ulsan, Chungbuk, Chungnam, Jeonbuk, Jeonnam, Gyeongbuk and Gyeongnam).

The 3 regions with no entry do have medical institutions registered to attract foreign patients. The 2022 statistics show 8 in Gangwon, 33 in Jeju and 1 in Sejong. The source does not say why they are missing from the list. Their figures are in Gangwon and Jeju Medical Tourism and Daejeon and Chungcheong Medical Tourism.

Which regional medical tourism offices in Korea cover Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi?

7 entries: Seoul (3), Incheon (2) and Gyeonggi (2). 3 are government departments and 4 are tourism organizations or centers.

All three regions have both a government department and a separate body on the list. Registered institution counts and yearly changes are in Seoul Medical Tourism and Incheon and Gyeonggi Medical Tourism.

Which regional medical tourism offices in Korea cover Busan, Ulsan, Gyeongnam, Daegu and Gyeongbuk?

7 entries: Busan (2), Ulsan (1), Gyeongnam (1), Daegu (2) and Gyeongbuk (1). Busan and Daegu each have a city department and a separate body, while Ulsan, Gyeongnam and Gyeongbuk have a government department only.

7 of the 7 listed addresses opened as written. None failed to open. Registered institution counts for the two areas are in Busan, Ulsan and Gyeongnam Medical Tourism and Daegu and Gyeongbuk Medical Tourism.

Which regional medical tourism offices in Korea cover Gwangju, Jeonbuk, Jeonnam, Daejeon, Sejong, Chungbuk and Chungnam?

8 entries: Gwangju (2), Jeonbuk (1), Jeonnam (1), Daejeon (2), Chungbuk (1) and Chungnam (1). Gwangju and Daejeon each have a city department and a separate body, and Sejong has no entry.

The address listed for Gwangju Medical Tourism Support Center (www.mediwellgj.kr) did not respond on 5 Oct 2026. The address listed for Gwangju Metropolitan City Future Industry Policy Officer (www.gwangju.go.kr), the other entry for Gwangju, opened the same day. Registered institution counts are in Gwangju and Jeolla Medical Tourism and Daejeon and Chungcheong Medical Tourism.

Which departments and bodies serve as regional medical tourism offices in Korea?

14 are departments of a city or provincial government and 8 are separate bodies such as tourism organizations and centers. Going by their names, the departments are 6 in health, 4 in tourism, 3 in welfare and 1 in industry policy, so the responsible department differs from region to region.

The types come from the words in each name in the source file dated 29 Aug 2023 (tourism, health, food and drug, welfare, medical tourism, medical). The 14 department entries all give the government's main address, so none of them leads straight to a department page.

A medical institution that wants to attract foreign patients must register with its city mayor or provincial governor (Article 6(1) of the Act on Support for Overseas Expansion of Healthcare System and Attraction of International Patients). The foreign patient attraction information system run by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute likewise directs questions about registration to each local government. The source does not say whether the departments on the list are the ones that handle registration. The steps for looking up a registration are in How to Check if a Korean Hospital Is Registered for Foreign Patients.

How are the regional medical tourism offices in Korea named in English, Japanese, Chinese and Russian?

The source gives all 22 a name in each of the 4 languages. The table can be copied when naming a department to a patient or partner abroad.

Names are reproduced exactly as written in the source, and K-Medical Tourism Institute has not corrected them. The English column for the Jeollanam-do tourism division reads "JelloaNamdo Tourism Division". The Russian column for Daejeon Metropolitan City Department of Health Policy holds only "митрополии Тэджон", with no department name, and the English name of the Seoul city division is hyphenated as "Govern-ment".

Did the websites of the regional medical tourism offices in Korea all open on 5 Oct 2026?

21 of the 22 listed addresses opened as written. Of the rest, 1 did not respond.

The address listed for Gwangju Medical Tourism Support Center (www.mediwellgj.kr) did not respond on 5 Oct 2026. The final address recorded for Daejeon International Marketing Enterprise(DIME) was plain http, not https. "No response" records that the address did not open that day and cannot be read as the office having closed.

What should you keep in mind when reading the figures on regional medical tourism offices in Korea?

The department names and addresses on the list are those of 29 Aug 2023, the date of the source file. K-Medical Tourism Institute has not checked for reorganizations since then.

Comparing regions that have an entry with regions that have none says nothing about the scale of medical tourism or the standard of care there. The source alone cannot show whether a region missing from the list has a responsible department.

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 link check looked only at whether an address opens, so it did not confirm that the page that opened carries medical tourism information.

Where do the figures on regional medical tourism offices in Korea come from, and how were they calculated?

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.

The registered institution counts by region are the 2022 values, as published, from "Medical institutions registered to attract foreign patients, by year and region", a file from the same institute (data as of 31 Dec 2022).

"Opens" means the listed address opened. "Path changed" means the listed path did not open and the home page on the same host did. "Could not verify automatically" means the server answered but the automatic check could not reach the final page, and "No response" means the server could not be found or refused the connection. Addresses that did not respond are shown as plain text with no link.