A Practical Guide to Korean Healthcare: Choosing a Facility and Preparing for Treatment
Photo: Hamsterfreund / Pixabay To choose a facility in Korea, start with official directories rather than advertising. Medical Korea, the international patient portal, keeps a searchable list of registered hospitals and facilitators, and a separate list of hospitals that hold the government's accreditation for serving foreign patients. Check that your clinic appears in the directory, look at what language services it lists, and only then compare doctors and prices. Registered hospitals and facilitators Medical Korea's home page presents directories of Registered Hospitals and Registered Facilitators, and states that cumulative foreign patients have reached 5.05 million. The registered hospital list is large: when checked for this article it showed 4,160 facilities across 18 regions. Categories include tertiary general hospital, general hospital, hospital, clinic, dental clinic and Korean medicine hospital, and each entry shows a registration ID, address, phone, email and w...