| Daegu has a top-level medical infrastructure that, consists of over 18,000 medical personnel and includes approximately 6,000 medical doctors in 6 university hospitals, 29 general hospitals and 30 oriental medical centers. |
| Daegu is highly competitive in the fields of specialized medical examination and treatment per hospital (within the top 10 in Korea). It is a city that conducts over 600 cardiac surgeries and 10,000 cancer operations in a year by university hospitals (Kyunpoook National Univ. Hospital, Yeungnam Univ. Medical Center, Keimyung Univ. Dongsan Medical Center and Daegu Catholic Univ. Hospital) |
| Low medical charge |
| Medical checkup (KRW 350,000 ~ 400,000 in Daegu, KRW 500,000 ~ 1,000,000 in Seoul), cosmetic surgey (cheaper by approximately KRW 1,000,000 ~ 2,000,000 than in Seoul) |
| Various surgical and examination costs are cheaper by a : approximately 1/9 of the US, 1/4 of Japan and 1/2 of Singapore |
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