2009 Global Healthcare Medical Tourism Expo in Korea

2009 Global Healthcare Medical Tourism Expo which is hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government, Joongang Daily and KOTRA will be held for 3 days from November 5th(Thu)to November7th(Sat) at COEX Hall B(formerly, Indian Ocean Hall).

This Healthcare and Medical Tour Expo will be held on the largest scale in the country for the purpose of raising the international prestige of medical services in Korea, expanding global markets and cultivating high value added industry which combines the medical service and the tourism.

Hundreds of hospital participants, media, specialized agents and government officials from 20 countries in the world including members of European Chamber of Commerce stationed in Korea and healthcare people from Yongsan headquarter of the Eighth United States Army stationed in Korea will visit the event hall for the purpose of business exchange.

United Healthcare, which is the largest healthcare insurance company in US, and Patients Without Borders which is the company specialized in dispatching foreign patients, will visit from US, and also People Group which has over 2 billion dollars of annual sales will visit from China for the establishment of collaboration with hospitals in Korea. And, from Japan where medial tourists have been increasingly visiting Korea recently, many agencies specialized in medial tourism will visit Korea to have business talks.

Foreign participants will have consultations as well as PAM tour for making a round of medical facilities of domestic hospitals, and this will be held on the largest scale in the history of domestic medial Expo.

And, various seminars will be held for 3 days. Lectures from invited foreign speakers in healthcare field as well as success cases and marketing direction of medical tourism, and International Medical Spa Academic Conference which presents trend of medical spa in various countries will be held.

Since it’s an international event, the largest number of visitors from foreign countries will visit this event, and also the number of domestic visitors expected to be around 5,000 people. Here is the list of exhibitions which will be held in 2009 Global Healthcare Medical Tourism Expo under great domestic and international interests.

  • International Healthcare center of Konkuk University Medical Center: Experiencing the remote treatment system HUS (Hygeian Ultimate System) and checking EKG from the monitor in real-time remotely
  • Cha medical center: Demonstrating anti-aging, experiencing skincare with anti-aging skincare product ’Evercell’ and demonstrating neuro feedback for consulting brain waves with the brainwave analyzer.
  • Korea medical spa federation: Operating ‘booth for experiencing cosmetic surgery of Traditional Oriental Medicine’
  • In-Body Oriental medical clinic: Operating the booth for experiencing cosmetic surgery of Traditional Oriental Medicine, and removal of facial wrinkles, lifting and removal of wrinkles under eyes
  • Seoul Tourism Marketing: Screening movie clips which show attractions of Seoul tourism and medical tourism of Korea, and providing 1:1 consulting of medical specialists in cosmetic surgeon with buyers
  • Korea Global Healthcare Association: Providing cosmetic, skin, dental, ophthalmology and health examination services
  • Samsung medical center: Providing the best health inspection services, abdominal ultrasound, EKG, and blood pressure and body fat check
  • Hallym University medical center: Providing consultation for burn reconstruction and esthetic surgery from the Burn Center and inspecting joints, spine and prostate
  • Ye dental clinic: Calibrating tooth color and tooth abrasion
  • Andong-Medical Tourism Development Association: Physical constitution checkup, body composition analysis, and sampling of drinks made by traditional herbs and dietary foods
  • Various seminars
  • The business consulting session will be held for one day on November 6th(Fri).With attendance of foreign buyers, domestic hospitals, clinics and companies, this session will be held on the largest scale of the country.
  • In addition, seminars lectured by the best specialist in each field throughout the world will be held, uplifting the excitement in the event hall. Free admission for seminar on a first-comefirst- served basis