Korea’s medical spending totals 35.3 trillion won last year

Korea’s medical expenditure amounted to 35.36 trillion won last year, up 8.6 percent compared with 32.25 trillion won a year earlier, according to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.

Senior citizens' medical spending totaled 10.49 trillion won last year, occupying 30 percent of the country's total medical expenditure. The sum is likely to snowball to 87 trillion won in 2030, ...