Hello, I am Rep. Kim Sang-hoon, secretary of the ruling Liberty Korea Party for the National Assembly Committee of Health and Welfare.

Happy New Year! I hope 2017 will be a great year for all of you.

The Korean Doctors’ Weekly, which has served readers with swift reports and sharp analyses of issues, related to medical and healthcare industry, is releasing the first publication of an English newspaper specialized in this field. I sincerely congratulate you and your staff that has spared no efforts for the launch of Korea’s first specialized English newspaper for this particular area.

Many economic experts are predicting healthcare industry will serve as one of the prominent players catapulting the national economy and its new growth engine. Already, many countries have made extensive investment in healthcare industry, paying keen attention to its development.

In keeping with this trend, the Korean government also is implementing various policies to promote healthcare industry, enacting related laws such as those for developing medical equipment manufacturing and state-of-the-art medical regeneration.

Currently, Korea has provided high-quality medical services. And patients coming to Korea have increased. Korea’s healthcare sector has reached a world-class level, as seen by the rapidly increasing number of foreigners visiting this country for treatment. This is the right time to make efforts for the systematic and appropriate promotion of this sector.

I think if there were a media that can help the world know about the nation’s medical policy, services and its top-notch technology, our healthcare industry would make another leap. Against this backdrop, the publication of the Kore Biomedical Review is significant, indeed.

I expect KBR will greatly contribute to strengthening the competitive edge of Korea’s healthcare sector by providing vivid reports from industrial fields.

I congratulate the first release of KBR again and wish continuous development and prosperity of its sister paper The Korean Doctors’ Weekly.

Thank you

Rep. Kim Sang-hoon
Secretary of the Liberty Korea Party
National Assembly Committee of Health and Welfare

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