ministry · South Korea
Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare
Central Korean government ministry regulating healthcare facilities, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and public health. Issues medical licences and operates licence verification through the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA). Also oversees the international patient facility registration required for clinics treating medical tourists.
How to check a licence
- Site menu 기관조회 > 기관조회 로그인 (institution lookup requires login).
- Agree to 서비스 이용동의; the page lists permitted purposes such as '직원 채용서류 면허(자격) 등록여부 확인'.
- Notice on page: 기관조회 is used after obtaining the data subject's consent ('정보주체의 동의를 받은 후 조회함').
- Separate menu items under 발급문서확인: '면허(자격)증 위변조확인' and '우편수령 증명서 진위확인'. These pages were not opened; fields not verified.
- Language: Korean
- Covers: practitioners
- Login required
Requires login and the practitioner's consent; shows no disciplinary actions — a foreign patient cannot self-serve.
Documented from the register page on 2026-10-04: “기관조회 서비스는 보건의료인 등의 면허(자격) 등록사항을 조회하는 서비스로 업무 참고용으로 사용할 수 있습니다.(행정처분사항은 확인되지 않음)”
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.
Clinics with an accreditation from this body
Link derived from the clinic’s declared accreditation list. Not every clinic holding this body’s licence is listed — only those whose public record explicitly names the body.