{"id":800938,"date":"2026-07-14T08:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800938\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:34:42","slug":"south-koreas-beauty-tourism-boom-draws-doctors-away-from-hospital-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800938\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s beauty tourism boom draws doctors away from hospital work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/health-care\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health Care<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Chinese, Japanese visitors flock to Seoul region for cosmetic procedures<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F4%2F1%2F9%2F3%2F12753914-2-eng-GB%2F9e2e4fae2863-photo_SXM2026070500009522.jpg?fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto&amp;width=780\" alt=\"20260710N south korea beauty medicine billboards\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Advertisements for cosmetic\u00a0treatments line the streets of Seoul&#8217;s\u00a0Gangnam.\u00a0(Photo by Yo Inoue)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SEOUL &#8212; Foreigners are coming to South Korea in record numbers for cosmetic procedures, adding to concerns over imbalances in the country&#8217;s ability to provide medical care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Care Chinese, Japanese visitors flock to Seoul region for cosmetic procedures Advertisements for cosmetic\u00a0treatments line the streets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[15115,405,91243,49,48,1056,270224,84,392,10906,44262,5593,1674,5368],"class_list":["post-800938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-away","tag-beauty","tag-boom","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-doctors","tag-draws","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hospital","tag-koreas","tag-south","tag-tourism","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}