Saturday, September 4, 2010

Number of Korea Medical tourists doubles in 2009

More than 60,201 foreigners, including 4,576 American soldiers received medical treatment in Korea in 2009. Their total spending was $50 million.

US (32.6%), Japan (30.3%), Chinese (11%), Russians (4.1%), Canadians (2.3%), Mongolians (2%) and Middle Eastern (1.4%)
Most of them had health checkups and pastic surgery(and skincare)
 
The number of inpatients was 3,915, accounting for 6.5 percent of foreign. The overal proportion of patients hospitalized in Korea stood at 11.4 percent last year.More women (56.6 percent) visited local medical institutions than men (43.3 percent). Of the Japanese patients, 79.4 percent were female.

By Lee Ji-Yoon

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