medical council · South Korea
Korean Medical Association
Primary professional body for physicians in South Korea, representing doctors to government and managing continuing medical education. Membership is near-universal; the KMA publishes a directory that complements the Ministry of Health & Welfare practitioner register.
Scope of authority
Professional body representing Korean physicians; mandatory affiliation for practising doctors. Statutory regulation sits with the Ministry of Health and Welfare; the Korea Medical Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Agency (KMDMAA, branded K-MEDI) handles patient-clinician disputes; its English site states that its counselling service is free.
How to check a licence
We could not document this register automatically (kma.org returned no response on 2026-10-04 and no public KMA physician lookup was found; the official licence check is the Ministry of Health and Welfare service (see that entry)). Open the official site directly.
Complaint pathway
“의료분쟁상담 · 의료분쟁 조정/중재 · 조정신청 · 중재신청 서식”
K-MEDI is a dispute mediation and arbitration agency, not a regulator complaint form. The quote is a list of homepage menu labels. An English site is available at https://www.k-medi.or.kr/eng/index.do.
Documented from the page on 2026-10-04.
This official link did not respond when we last checked (2026-10-04).