Government urged to activate public hospitals

Concern is growing that legalizing Korean commercial hospitals on Jeju Island and foreign for-profit hospitals in the Incheon Free Economic Zone would decimate the country’s universal health care system.

Critics cry that such a two-tier system would give the rich access to the best medicines and the rest would be stuck with what’s left.

In a policymaking forum on Tuesday, Woo Suk-geun, ...