This page was translated from Chinese by AI. If anything differs, the Chinese version prevails.
서울아산병원 · Asan Medical Center · Tertiary general hospital · Seoul
Asan Medical Center, Seoul
- Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026 - Oncology: No. 4 [2]
International patient center
Languages: zh / en / ru / mn / ar. Services: Appointments, Native-level medical interpretation, Free airport pickup. [1]
Strengths
Thyroid cancer 내분비외과
- In December 2025, at the invitation of Kuwait's Ministry of Health, Dr. Tae-Yon Sung's team performed five difficult operations there, including robotic transaxillary thyroidectomy, and trained local surgeons[3]
Annual case volume: to be added
Doctors: Tae-Yon Sung
Liver cancer and liver transplant 간이식ㆍ간담도외과
- Performed Korea's first living-donor liver transplant in December 1994[4]
- 7,392 living-donor liver transplants in total (7,032 adult, 360 pediatric), reported by the media as the most in the worldhospital or media claim[4]
- Overall liver transplant survival: 98% at 1 year, 90% at 3 years, 89% at 10 yearshospital or media claim[4]
- 1,042 ABO-incompatible living-donor liver transplants, reported as the most in the worldhospital or media claim[4]
Annual case volume: to be added
Doctors: Sung-Gyu Lee, Shin Hwang, Gi-Won Song
Heart disease 심장병원（심장내과 / 심장외과）
- 31 heart transplants in 2024, the most in Korea (national organ transplant statistics report)[5]
- The hospital says it performs about half of Korea's heart transplants, with 95% one-year survival (86% US average over the same period)hospital or media claim[6]
- Professor Seung-Jung Park performed Korea's first coronary stent procedure in 1991[7]
Annual case volume: to be added
Doctors: Seung-Jung Park, Jung-Min Ahn, Sung-Ho Jung
Brain tumor 신경외과 / 뇌종양센터 / 감마나이프센터
- First in Asia to introduce the Gamma Knife (1990); first in Korea to complete 5,000 cases (2010)hospital or media claim[8]
Annual case volume: to be added
Doctors: Young Hyun Cho, Sang Woo Song