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More Chinese go to S. Korea on medical tours
By Cai Wenjun |
January 17, 2012, Tuesday
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A growing number of Chinese are going to South Korea on medical tours, mostly for plastic surgery, according to Yonhap News Agency.
Citing a report from the South Korean embassy in Beijing, the agency said 1,073 medical tourist visas were issued to the Chinese in 2011, compared with only 220 such visas in 2010.
South Korea issued 1.07 million visas to Chinese visitors last year, a rise of 22.6 percent from 2010.
The South Korean consulate in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province that borders the Korean peninsula, issued 268,000 visas. The number is followed by 241,000 issued in Shanghai and 229,000 issued in Beijing.
Meanwhile, China received 2.05 million Korean visitors last year, up 23.6 percent from the previous year.
The South Korean government introduced the medical tourist visa in the mid-2009 to boost its medical industry. The agency said that short distance and good medical services in South Korea, especially its plastic surgery, are the reasons for a rising number of Chinese visitors.
"Plastic surgery prices in South Korea haven't changed for five years while the Chinese prices have increased by at least 20 to 30 percent," said Liu Chunlong with the Shanghai Plastic and Cosmetic Hospital. "So their prices are actually dropping compared with the rising value of Renminbi."
Citing a report from the South Korean embassy in Beijing, the agency said 1,073 medical tourist visas were issued to the Chinese in 2011, compared with only 220 such visas in 2010.
South Korea issued 1.07 million visas to Chinese visitors last year, a rise of 22.6 percent from 2010.
The South Korean consulate in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province that borders the Korean peninsula, issued 268,000 visas. The number is followed by 241,000 issued in Shanghai and 229,000 issued in Beijing.
Meanwhile, China received 2.05 million Korean visitors last year, up 23.6 percent from the previous year.
The South Korean government introduced the medical tourist visa in the mid-2009 to boost its medical industry. The agency said that short distance and good medical services in South Korea, especially its plastic surgery, are the reasons for a rising number of Chinese visitors.
"Plastic surgery prices in South Korea haven't changed for five years while the Chinese prices have increased by at least 20 to 30 percent," said Liu Chunlong with the Shanghai Plastic and Cosmetic Hospital. "So their prices are actually dropping compared with the rising value of Renminbi."
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