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Affordable healthcare, familiar surroundings, and state of the art, world-class medical treatments, procedures, and protocols are attracting millions of Asians, including Japanese, Chinese, and expatriate Koreans to South Korea for a variety of surgical procedures and medical treatments.
South Korea has long been a leader in global economics and continues to be one of the wealthiest countries in Asia. Modern architecture and ancient dynasty landmarks provide tourists with numerous destinations to visit and the friendly people and traditions of South Korea enthrall and captivate travelers from around the world.
South Korea, the home of the first cloned dog, remains on the cutting edge of technological advances in medicine and health care. Excellent and skilled physicians, state-of-the-art technology and some of the most advanced healthcare facilities in the world continue to draw medical travelers to South Korea for medical treatments and procedures in organ transplantation, cancer therapy treatments, dental care, plastic and cosmetic surgery and many others.
South Korea recently launched a Council for Korean Medicine Overseas Promotion, to be funded by the government and private hospitals, but any booming medical tourism sector is yet a long way off. However, South Koreans have been willingly going under the knife for years, with girls as young as 14 flocking to have eyelid operations (blepharoplasy, involving a procedure to create a Western-looking crease in the upper eyelid) to make themselves “more beautiful”. Experts say this operation, sometimes even given as gifts by family members, makes up 80 to 90 percent of plastic surgery procedures done in South Korea.
