South Korea Outlines National Health Insurance Coverage for Nursing Hospital Caregiver Costs
As part of a broader push to integrate caregiver costs into National Health Insurance, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced plans to...
Medicine
Seoul’s Major Hospitals Split in Patient Experience Survey as HIRA Discloses First-Ever Letter Grades
Asan Medical Center and Samsung Medical Center earned Grade 1 ratings in the latest national patient experience survey, while Seoul National...
Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital Ranks No. 1 Nationwide in Patient Experience for Second Consecutive Time
"Which hospital do you go to if you want to be treated like a human being?" For patients and caregivers heading to the...
High Timely Treatment Rate for Hemorrhagic Stroke Masks Capability Gap Among Hospitals
The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service has added hemorrhagic stroke to its annual evaluation—which previously...
French Cardiac Surgeon Brings Father 10,000 km to Seoul for Rare Dual-Donor Liver Transplant
When Mohamed El Kettani, a 64-year-old Moroccan-born dual citizen of France and Morocco, was told that a liver...
AI Platform Replaces Animal Models to Accelerate Parkinson’s Cell Therapy
Researchers are launching an international joint study that leverages artificial intelligence to evaluate whether...
Samsung Medical Center Wins Red Dot Design Award for English Website Overhaul
Samsung Medical Center announced on July 30 that its English-language website earned a main "Winner" prize in the Brand...
Samsung Medical Center’s New Medical AI Outperforms GPT-5.2 on Korean Licensing Benchmark
A joint research team from Samsung Medical Center and AI startup ZeroOneAI has developed a domain-specialized medical...
Daegu Champions Industry and Research Base in Bid for National Dental Research Institute
One of the most prominent issues facing Daegu Metropolitan City’s dental community is the campaign to attract the...
Life-Saving Heart Surgeries Give Four Kyrgyz Children a Fresh Start in South Korea
A seven-month-old infant who faced a life-threatening crisis without urgent intervention by the end of the year has...