OECD warns Korea’s hefty health care spending

Korea’s healthcare system depends too much on hospitals to treat the illness and not enough on community-based medical practices to keep people healthy, according to a report of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued on Feb. 26 (Health Care Quality Review: Korea).

The report said that since 2002, health spending in Korea has grown at nearly 8% each year, more tha...