South Korea’s Gyeonggi Province is deepening its medical tourism ties with Mongolia, signing partnership agreements with 6 Mongolian medical travel agencies as part of its strategy to capture the growing flow of foreign patients seeking K-medical services.

• 📍 Gyeonggi-do Province ranks second in the country after Seoul. As of 2024, the province attracted 50,000 foreign patients, including 3,509 Mongolians.

🤝 Ulaanbaatar x Gyeonggi 

The Gyeonggi Tourism Organization and Gyeonggi International Medical Association signed a deal in Ulaanbaatar to promote Gyeonggi’s healthcare offerings to Mongolian consumers. The agreement includes joint marketing, high-value medical tourism packages, and exchange programs. Since April, “K-medical experience” programs have attracted around 1,000 medical tourists from Mongolia, Russia, and other CIS countries. GTO’s president emphasized Mongolia as a key partner for attracting high-value medical tourists.

🧗 Mongolia’s Growing Medical Tourism to South Korea

In 2024, approximately 25,000 Mongolian patients visited South Korea for medical treatment, marking a 16.5% increase from the previous year. Overall, around 80,000 Mongolians travel abroad annually for healthcare.

• 👥 Most seek treatment in China and South Korea, followed by Thailand, India, Turkey, and Singapore. Surgery accounts for 78% of services, with the remainder split among consultations, rehabilitation, follow-ups, and other care.
• 📊 Between 2018–2020, Mongolians spent $5.3 million in South Korea, accounting for 46% of total overseas medical spending, $3 million in India, and $1.4 million in China, underscoring Mongolia’s growing reliance on high-quality regional healthcare.

Overall… Mongolia is emerging as a key source of medical tourists in Asia, with many seeking treatment abroad for conditions unavailable at home. The trend underscores the country’s growing reliance on high-quality regional healthcare services.