Sejong General Hospital

Sejong General Hospital was founded in 1982 as a Heart Hospital with the state-of-theart equipments and facilities and has focused on heart disease more than 30 years. As a result, Sejong General Hospital was authorized as a heart disease specialty hospital in 1989 by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and was nominated as a cardiovascular hospital in Korea in 2005, 2008, 2011. Until 2012 August, We have achieved a Coronaryangiography 54,000th cases and a open heart surgery 27,000th cases.   Since 1989 children with congenital heart disease from China, Vietnam, Russia, Papua New Guinea, Mongol, Uzbekistan, and Nepal have been successfully treated surgically and have been giving them new lives. (1056th cases until 2012 August.) Also quite a few medical doctors from abroad, eg, China and Russia, have received training at Sejong Hospital.  With our world-class medical technology and efforts in research and clinical activities, we would like to repeat our commitment to contribute to the improvement of the medical communities in Asia as well as in Korea.