Busan City launched a medical tourism website at http://www.bsmeditour.go.kr in January 2010.
The website provides information about the comprehensive medical environment and major medical facilities in Busan, the quality of the medical care available in the city, and access to information in 5 languages, including Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese and Russian along with a variety of tourism information which medical tourists will find useful and interesting. Also, links to hospital and clinic websites are expected to lead to synergy effects spreading to medical institutions across the city.
Busan City distributed the free medical tourism manual to 21 designated qualified medical centers in Busan. The manual introduces inpatient and outpatient procedures for foreigners, a treatment form, medical insurance, information about handling medical accidents, follow-up medical care, and procedures for entry into Korea by foreign patients and their family members.
To boost medical tourism in Busan and better systematic government support, Busan City enacted the ‘Busan Metropolitan City Ordinance on the Promotion of Medical Tourism” at the end of last year and it came into force from the beginning of 2010. Therefore, the City plans to foster medical tourism professionals and to designate and support qualified medical centers in order to improve medical facilities and services. Overseas marketing and promotional activities have already been carried out and various policies for developing medical tourism packages are currently being planned.
The ‘Medical Street’ project will break ground in the first half of the year and be completed by the end of next year, next to the Lotte Department Store in Seomyeon and across the main street from it, stretching for about 1 km along the street.
Busan Medical Tourism Information Center was opened to the public on the 1st floor of the Daedong building, in Jangjeon-dong, Geumjeong-gu on December 10, 2009. It provides one stop medical tourism information and related information.
