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KMID : 0986720110190020005
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Korean Journal of Medicine and Law
2011 Volume.19 No. 2 p.5 ~ p.64
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Medical Tourism and Civil liability of Facilitator of Foreign Patients
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Park Jae-Hun
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Abstract
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It has been world-widely realized that Medical Tourism, which is defined as the combination of Medical Service and Tourism, is a higher value-added business, which is evaluated as the next generation business, to develop the economy.
This article is designed to suggest the problems to revitalize Medical Tourism and its desirable direction in the method of comparing the current situations of India, Thailand, Singapore and U.S., which can be called advanced countries of Medical Tourism and analyzing the situation and characteristic of Medical Tourism of R.O.K.
On the other hand, it is easily foreseen subside effects and disputes of itself as the competition of Facilitator of Foreign patients get fierce so that this article is also written for the purpose of examining of sphere of business thereof. Besides, it is to dealt with the liability of Facilitator in the law of Medication by analyzing the methodology of concluding the contract, the liability of result of mediation, Fiduciary duty and the negligence of the obligations to explain and advising of the duties of the proper and fare information as the civil liability of Facilitator.
Conclusively, this article is aimed at encouraging not only Medical Tourism by supporting as governmental policy and maintaining the relevant laws, but also the research of sphere and civil liability of Facilitator of Foreign Patients in the dispute which could be anticipated in the middle of Medical Tourism on the reason that the business of Medical Tourism of R.O.K has price competitiveness and highly developed skills which can be interpreted as the potentiality to be developed.
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KEYWORD
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Medical Tourism, Foreign Patients, Facilitator, Medical Institutes, Medical Dispute
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