“We hope medical tourism will help create a new Korean wave,” said Jung Ho-won, director of the ministry’s Health Industry Policy Division.
The ministry aims to attract over 150,000 foreign patients this year and 400,000 by 2018, which will be easily achieved at the current pace, he said.
The government has been making efforts over the past few years to develop medical tourism as one of its new growth engines, and is now slowly harvesting the fruits.
The ministry estimated that the total number of foreign patients who visited Korea for medical treatment surpassed 110,000 last year, up from 81,789 in 2010.
The Korea Times, March 11, 2012
source: http://www.Occidentalism.org / Home> Economics, Science, Technology / March 11th, 2012
