Status

A growing number of foreign patients visit Korea to receive traditional Korean medicine.
Traditional Korean medicine has gained a lot of popularity worldwide for those seeking weight loss, beauty care as well as illness treatment.

Traditional Korean medicine hospitals are dedicated to developing science-based traditional Korean medicine, further upgrading the standardized herbal medicine system through medicinal herb research institutes and a certification system for herbal medicine production facilities.

Plus, Korea has a customized medical service environment for foreign patients, such as dedicated medical staff for foreign patients and a customer service center that is operated 24/7.

Strength

The effect of collaborative treatment by both traditional Korean and estern medicine has been scientifically proven.

An SCIE journal announced research that gauged neck pain before and after getting western and traditional Korean medicine. Results showed that the pain index was 43.3 after western medicinal treatment, and the pain index further dropped to 6.1 after receiving Chuna manual medicine (CMM) treatment.

This shows the drastic decrease in pain when combining western and traditional Korean medicine. In Korea, such collaborative treatment is applied to spinal surgery rehabilitation and treating edema after plastic surgery with outstanding results.