Nearly 190,000 foreigners visit Gangnam for medical service, half for skin care
Social affairsJun 8, 2024
A record-high number of foreigners received medical services at hospitals and clinics in Gangnam last year, the district office said Thursday. The Gangnam-gu Office said 185,559 foreign nationals visited the district for medical services in 2023, which accounted for 30.6 percent of all 605,768 foreign patients in South Korea. The number of foreign patients in Gangnam tripled from the year before, marking an all-time high. Gangnam-gu is one of the three districts in the affluent Gangnam region