Bucheon City Issues "Welcome Card" Offering Shopping and Tourism Benefits for Foreign Patients

Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, announced today (October 30) that it will officially launch the Bucheon Welcome Card program starting in November to boost medical tourism by providing foreign patients and their companions with discounts on shopping, tourism, and accommodation facilities.

Holders of the Bucheon Welcome Card can receive discounts at a total of 18 partner facilities, including a 10 percent discount on K-beauty cosmetics at the Bucheon City Hall shop, a 50 percent discount on admission tickets to Woongjin Playdoci and the Bucheon Lake Botanical Garden Supia, as well as discounted accommodation rates.

To enhance convenience for foreign patients, the city has launched an English-language medical tourism website providing information on benefits for each partner facility.

Song Jeong-won, head of the Bucheon Public Health Center, said, "Through the Bucheon Welcome Card, we will connect foreign patients' use of medical services to local tourism and consumption, and we will continue our efforts to strengthen our medical tourism competitiveness and revitalize the local economy."

(Photo provided by Bucheon City, Yonhap News)
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