S. Korea attracts more than 2 million foreign medical tourists in 2025

The number of foreign medical tourists coming to South Korea topped 2 million last year amid growing global interest in the country's medical services, a report showed Sunday. A total of 2.01 million foreigners visited South Korea for medical, dental and surgical care in 2025, up 71.9 percent from a year earlier, according to an annual report by the state-run Korea Health Industry Development Institute. By country, 618,000, or 30.8 percent, were from China, followed by 600,000 from Japan, 185,00