{"id":4640,"date":"2026-10-28T01:53:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/uncategorized\/mediwin-international-hospitals-healthcare-may-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T01:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:56:02","slug":"mediwin-international-hospitals-healthcare-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/ru\/notice\/mediwin-international-hospitals-healthcare-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIWIN Featured in International Hospitals &#038; Healthcare (May 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mw-press\" style=\"max-width:820px;margin:0 auto;font-size:17px;line-height:1.7;color:#1c2a4d\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#416BB2;font-weight:700;margin:0 0 8px\">Press \u00b7 May 2026<\/p>\n<p>MEDIWIN founder <strong>Jinsung Park<\/strong> was interviewed for <em>\u201cSouth Korea\u2019s medical tourism surge\u201d<\/em>, a feature by Chloe Fox in the <strong>May 2026 issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalsandhealthcare.com\/latest\/long-read\/south-koreas-medical-tourism-surge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Hospitals &amp; Healthcare<\/a><\/strong> (pp. 28\u201333), a healthcare industry magazine published in the UK by Voyageur Publishing &amp; Events. The feature also shares insights from Sean Park, Operations Director at Flying Doctors, Korea Tourism Organization (KTO).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:28px 0;text-align:center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mediwin-ihh-may-2026-p28.jpg\" alt=\"Opening page of the feature \u201cSouth Korea\u2019s medical tourism surge\u201d, International Hospitals &amp; Healthcare, May 2026\" width=\"889\" height=\"1200\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;max-height:720px;width:auto;box-shadow:0 6px 24px rgba(15,42,74,.18)\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#5b6b85;margin-top:8px\">Opening page of the feature (p. 28). \u00a9 International Hospitals &amp; Healthcare \/ Voyageur Publishing &amp; Events.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"font-size:24px;margin:36px 0 12px\">What MEDIWIN\u2019s founder told IH&amp;H<\/h2>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left:4px solid #ffb020;margin:16px 0;padding:6px 0 6px 18px\">\n<p style=\"margin:0\">\u201cFrom an international patient\u2019s perspective, it can be very difficult to choose a doctor or clinic and verify its legitimacy in terms of medical credentials and quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left:4px solid #ffb020;margin:16px 0;padding:6px 0 6px 18px\">\n<p style=\"margin:0\">\u201c\u2026 MEDIWIN aims to guide international patients toward appropriate and customised doctor consultations that can lead to meaningful treatment in Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left:4px solid #ffb020;margin:16px 0;padding:6px 0 6px 18px\">\n<p style=\"margin:0\">\u201cThe role of medical facilitators in South Korea must be highlighted, as they serve as a form of quality control between patients and doctors, helping to maintain the country\u2019s reputation in medical tourism. Korean government-approved medical facilitators are licensed and required to carry medical-related insurance as a form of protection for international patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left:4px solid #ffb020;margin:16px 0;padding:6px 0 6px 18px\">\n<p style=\"margin:0\">\u201cPersonalised treatment is one of the strongest aspects of Korean medical tourism. Korean doctors have extensive experience from handling a high volume of international patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#5b6b85\">\u2014 Jinsung Park, Founder of MEDIWIN, in International Hospitals &amp; Healthcare, May 2026<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size:24px;margin:36px 0 12px\">Facts reported in the feature<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>South Korea welcomed 1.17 million international patients in 2024, exceeding its earlier projection of 700,000 by 2027 under a government strategy announced in May 2023.<\/li>\n<li>KTO noted that since 2009 the Ministry of Health and Welfare has run a registration system for institutions that attract international patients, and that a mandatory medical malpractice liability insurance system was introduced in 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Major hospitals employ coordinators fluent in languages including Russian, Arabic, Mongolian, English and Chinese (Sean Park, Operations Director at Flying Doctors, Korea Tourism Organization).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"font-size:24px;margin:36px 0 12px\">What this means if you are planning treatment in Korea<\/h2>\n<p>MEDIWIN is a Korean government-registered international patient facilitator (Seoul Metropolitan Government, registration <bdi dir=\"ltr\">A-2022-01-01-4465<\/bdi>; also registered with the Korea Tourism Organization) and an Official Partner of Asan Medical Center, Samsung Medical Center and Seoul St. Mary\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Send your medical records: a doctor at the partner hospital reviews them and you get an answer within 48 hours. There is no fee for patients \u2014 you pay the hospital directly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:22px 0\"><a href=\"mailto:mediwinkorea@gmail.com\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#ffb020;color:#1c2a4d;font-weight:700;padding:12px 22px;border-radius:8px;text-decoration:none;margin:0 10px 10px 0\">Email your records<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/821088643792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;border:2px solid #25D366;color:#128C4A;font-weight:700;padding:10px 20px;border-radius:8px;text-decoration:none;margin:0 10px 10px 0\">WhatsApp \u2014 reply within 15 minutes<\/a><\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:28px 0;text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mediwin-ihh-may-2026-p33.jpg\" alt=\"Page 33 of the feature, with Jinsung Park on quality control and the role of medical facilitators\" width=\"889\" height=\"1200\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;max-height:720px;width:auto;box-shadow:0 6px 24px rgba(15,42,74,.18)\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#5b6b85;margin-top:8px\">Page 33 \u2014 Jinsung Park on quality control and the role of medical facilitators. \u00a9 International Hospitals &amp; Healthcare \/ Voyageur Publishing &amp; Events.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"font-size:20px;margin:36px 0 10px\">Source<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">Fox, C. (2026). South Korea\u2019s medical tourism surge. <em>International Hospitals &amp; Healthcare<\/em>, May 2026, pp. 28\u201333. Voyageur Publishing &amp; Events. Online: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalsandhealthcare.com\/latest\/long-read\/south-koreas-medical-tourism-surge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hospitalsandhealthcare.com<\/a> (5 May 2026); also published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itij.com\/latest\/long-read\/south-koreas-medical-tourism-surge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ITIJ<\/a> (1 May 2026).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#5b6b85\">Quotes are short excerpts from the article. The article and page images remain \u00a9 their publisher.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIWIN founder Jinsung Park was interviewed for \u201cSouth Korea\u2019s medical tourism surge\u201d in the May 2026 issue of International Hospitals &#038; Healthcare (UK).<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4642,"href":"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions\/4642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediwin.co.kr\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}