'10 million won in a week is worth to spend' Medical tourism becoming as newly rising industry BK DongYangPlasticSurgeryClinic Advised by Dr. Shin, Yong Ho SBS CNBCNEWS (2010.11.04)

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'10 million won in a week is worth to spend'

Medical tourism becoming as newly rising industry

                                                               
 

                                                                  BK DongYangPlasticSurgeryClinic

                                            Advised by Dr. Shin, Yong Ho  SBS CNBCNEWS (2010.11.04)

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Medical tourism is turning into a high value-added industry lately. Though the fee is expensive, medical tourism is constantly creating a sustainable demand for it.

Reporter Kim, Mi Ra reports about the high-class medical tourism service targeting the foreigners in upper class.

Spend 20 million won per head, about 120~140 visit per month.



This is one of the hospitals in Gangnam that most of international medical tourists visit.

Though medical tourists spend about 20 million Korean Won per head considering shopping after the surgery. 120 ~ 140 international patients in average visit this hospital per month.

[Dr. Shin, Yong Ho/Director of BK DongYang Plastic Surgery Hospital: Patients who are willing to have a surgery want to have the best resulting surgery. They don’t look for the masterwork at somewhere cheaper.]

This hospital has coordinators only for the international medical tourists, and provides free accomodations for them.

[Zheng Zhong/Houston, USA: “I decided to come to Korea since I trust the medical skills of Korea, and like the medical services they provide]

Another hospital in Gangnam recently created a customized health management programme for foreigners to attract more medical tourists.

Outstanding medical skills, competitive prices, and Korean Wave...... More medical tourists are expected to visit.

An American actress, Suzanne Somers visited Korea to experience the health management programme, and was actually surprised with the advanced meidcal technology and skills of Korea.

[Suzanne Somers/American Actress: It’s very private. It’s very luxurious. It’s very thorough. They look inside your body, and in your scalp. And stem cell treatment which I’m going to have later.]

It costs 10 thousand US dollars in a week. Though it exceeds 10 million Korean won when exchanged, it is expected that constant increasing number of medical tourists who belong to upper class will be visiting to experience the best and finest medical services of Korea.

The medical tourists visited Korea are about 60 thousand tourists. Compare to last 2007 that only 16 thousand tourists visited, it is obvious to see that number of medical tourists has increased.

Because of the outstanding Korean medical skills, competitive prices, and the effects of Korean wave, there is an increasing number of medical toursits.

[Dr. Shin, Yong Ho/Director of BK DongYang Plastic Surgery Hosptial: First is competitive skills, second is competitive prices, and third is Korean wave, or Korean fever that leads them to have such fantasies in Korea....]

The Korea Tourist Service, Inc. saw the possibilities of medical toursim, and set the goal to reach 4 hundred thousand medical tourists until the year of 2015.

Kim, Mi-Ra SBS CNBC News