There are 2,049 specialized medical institutions including 10 general hospitals and about 9,000medical staffs in the city of Daejeon having special medical infrastructures and providing specialized diversity medical treatment in Ophthalmology, Dermatology, Plastic Surgery, Dentistry, Orthopedics, and Oriental Medicine. Medical services in Daejeon offer a competitive dege, with treatment costs of about 70%-80% as compared with other metropolitan cities in Korea and having cutting-dege equipment such as Cyber knife, Da Vinci Robotic Surgery, and PET-CT, Doctor Watson.

Daejeon was designated as the leading location for “Health Examination city” in 2011, along with Sun Medical Center certified by JCI, and has been developed into international competitiveness. Daejeon has great reputation in the world with specialized technique of medical treatment including Physical Examination, aesthetic/plastic surgery, Dentist, orthopedics, cardiovascular and Lasik/Lasek, In addition, a number of foreigners using professional medical technology of Daejeon is increasing every year.

Daejeon medical tourism can provide differentiated and comprehensive medical services with network construction between specialized medical center and general hospital.

For the convenience of foreign patients and their family members, the hospitals in the city of Daejeon provide special coordinators, helping to arrange each patients’ stay in Korea, and delivering services including interpretation, hotel accommodation, and admission and discharge processes.