Gwangju, with its 501km2 area and 1.5 million population, is the 6th largest metropolis in Korea after Seoul, Busan, and Incheon; it is the largest city in the Honam region.
Gwangju has been developing as the political, economic, social, and cultural center of the Honam region; with its recent hosting of a citizen-participating Gwangju Biennale and the establishment of Asia Culture Center, it is consolidating its position as the center of Asian culture.
Gwangju’s place in the world is being strengthened through having archives of May 18th Democratic Uprising inscribed on the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register and Mudeungsan UNESCO Global Geopark; construction of an extensive traffic network centered in Gwangju allows nearby cities and districts being within the life zone of Gwangju.
With the construction of Science Industrial Complex and Bitgreen National Industrial Complex are currently in progress,
Gwangju attempts to become a producing city with a firm futuristic growth engine through fostering high-value industries in R&D zone.
Gwangju is in pursuit of becoming a city of advanced medical service
through the focused promotion of medical tour industry and holds world-class medical technology and the best infrastructure per person in the country.
The best place for wellness medical tourism that takes care of entire medical tour,
from consultation and reservation before entry to follow-up after departure; Gwangju promises you the best medical service.
*Based on high blood pressure patients, chronic disease patients, diabetes patients, and obesity patients
*In consideration of ratio to population
*Number of doctors per person