For hospitals and patients outside Korea
Why consult a Korean hospital?
Your doctor and a Korean specialist look at your case together, online, each in their own language.
Why Korea
Many patients already choose Korea.
201
Countries whose patients were treated in Korea in 2025: 2.01 million people in all.
68.9%
Five-year survival for stomach cancer in Korea, the highest of the 71 countries compared (diagnosed 2010–2014).
Source CONCORD-3, The Lancet, 2018
5.74
Patients who asked the Korean hospital directly were more likely to actually go than those sent by an agency (adjusted odds ratio).
Source Byun et al., IJERPH, 2025
From 27 May 2027, doctors at Korean hospitals registered for international patients may also see them online, to prepare for and follow up on treatment. Until then, a doctor from your own hospital takes part in every consultation.
Source Reasons for amending Korea’s Medical Overseas Expansion Act (Act No. 21693)
At a glance
Today, many people stand in between.
- You
- Agency fees
- Agency
- Translation errors
- Interpreter
- Scattered messages
- Korean hospital
- You and your doctor
- ailix
- Direct request
- Your own language
- No ailix fee for you
- Korean hospital
What gets easier
Five things ailix makes easier.
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Records
Your records are hard for a Korean doctor to check.
Records are written in your language, often by hand. Translations made along the way can’t be compared with the original.
With ailix
ailix translates each page into Korean and puts it beside the original. It marks places where a number or drug name may be wrong.
Korean doctors who consulted 102 Mongolian patients online said an accurate diagnosis can be difficult when the records sent ahead are incomplete.
Source Uihak Sinmun, 2022
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Language
A medical interpreter is hard to find.
Phone translation apps often get important things wrong.
With ailix
Chat, voice and video are interpreted in 12 languages. If a number or drug name looks wrong, the message is held back with a warning.
A phone translation app made serious errors in 33.3% of real doctor talk. Trained interpreters did in 4.8%.
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Agencies
Agencies sit between you and the hospital.
Some ask you to pay before a doctor has seen your records.
With ailix
Your hospital sends your case straight to a Korean hospital. The Korean hospital pays for ailix; you and your hospital do not.
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Health warns against clinics and middlemen who promise a 100% cure or ask for payment before a doctor has reviewed the records.
Source BES.media, Aug 11, 2026
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Follow-up
Contact breaks between two hospitals.
Results, dates and messages get lost between hospitals, before and after the trip.
With ailix
Your doctor and the Korean doctor share one case. Results can be translated back for your doctor at home.
Patients who had a follow-up video consultation were more likely to go to Korea (adjusted odds ratio 4.06).
Source Byun et al., IJERPH, 2025
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Privacy
No one knows who opened your records.
Records sent by email or messenger can be forwarded anywhere.
With ailix
The service and the Korean hospitals reviewing your case see your records without your name; only the hospital you choose sees who you are. Every action is logged for five years. Data is stored in Seoul and processed automatically only in the countries your consent names.
Under Korean law, your data can go abroad only on a legal basis such as your separate consent (Personal Information Protection Act, Article 28-8).
Figures come from public sources. Legal points are for information only, not legal advice.