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 "id": "severance",
 "type": "facility",
 "names": {
  "name": "Severance Hospital",
  "aliases": [
   "세브란스병원",
   "Yonsei University Health System",
   "Gwanghyewon"
  ],
  "said": "SEV-er-ance, for Louis Severance of Standard Oil, who paid for the building. It opened in 1885 as Gwanghyewon, the House of Extended Grace, a royal hospital founded by the American doctor Horace Newton Allen, and took the donor's name on 3 September 1904."
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 "region": [
  "east-asia"
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  "iso2": "KR",
  "ownership": "university",
  "founded": 1885,
  "specialty": [
   "robotic surgery",
   "cardiology",
   "oncology",
   "transplantation",
   "neurosciences"
  ],
  "draws": [
   "proton-therapy",
   "car-t",
   "kidney-transplant",
   "liver-transplant",
   "prostatectomy"
  ],
  "status": "open",
  "languages": [
   "Korean",
   "English",
   "Russian",
   "Arabic",
   "Mongolian",
   "Mandarin"
  ]
 },
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  "what": "The oldest hospital in South Korea and part of the Yonsei University Health System: 2,437 beds in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, seeing about 2.5 million outpatients and 840,000 inpatients a year. It was founded in 1885 by Horace Newton Allen as Gwanghyewon, the country's first western-style hospital, renamed for its American donor in 1904, and joined to Yonsei University in 1957. It was the first Korean hospital accredited by Joint Commission International, in 2007.",
  "story": "The 1885 date makes Severance the only hospital in this batch older than the countries most of its patients fly from, and the sequence of its names is a history of Korean medicine in three words: a royal hospital, an American donor's hospital, a national university's hospital.\n\nIt is a system rather than a building — Severance at Sinchon, Gangnam Severance, Yongin Severance, Wonju Severance Christian, and Songdo Severance under construction. The record pins Sinchon.\n\nThe volumes are the East Asian ones: 2.5 million outpatients a year and 840,000 inpatients. Both count attendances, not people. The robotic surgery programme reached twenty thousand operations by 2018, the first unit in the world to do so; the hospital reports about two thousand coronary artery operations and about thirteen hundred arrhythmia treatments a year.\n\n*Inference —* a hospital that reports its unit volumes by operation is doing something the accreditation marks elsewhere in this batch do not: saying how often it does the thing. Volume is not outcome, and this directory does not read it as one, but it is a fact about the unit rather than about the building.\n\nThe 2007 JCI accreditation was the first in Korea, three years before the country's foreign-patient registration regime began in earnest, and it dates the start of Korean hospitals selling abroad.",
  "how": "Foreign patients reach it through the International Health Care Center, which states that an estimate of the cost of treatment can be provided on request before medical consent is given. *Trade practice —* that is the Korean shape: registration with the ministry, an in-hospital international centre, an estimate on request, and no published figure.\n\nNothing is priced on the public pages read for this record.",
  "today": "As of 17 September 2026 the hospital carries 2,437 beds, about 2.5 million outpatients and 840,000 inpatients a year. Its own overview names JCI accreditation without a year; the accreditor's own account dates the first award to 2007 and calls it Korea's first. No price is published."
 },
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  "lat": 37.562262,
  "lon": 126.940392,
  "precision": "street",
  "source": "s:osm-nominatim"
 },
 "address": {
  "street": "50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu",
  "city": "Seoul",
  "country": "KR",
  "postcode": "03722"
 },
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  "beds": 2437,
  "annual_patients": 2500000,
  "annual_foreign_patients": null,
  "note": "annual_patients counts OUTPATIENT ATTENDANCES, not people: about 2.5 million a year, with 840,000 inpatients counted separately and also as episodes rather than as individuals. A patient attending a clinic monthly is twelve. Beds are 2,437 at the Sinchon hospital this record pins; the Yonsei system runs four further hospitals. No foreign patient count is published by the hospital.",
  "as_of": "2026",
  "source": "s:wp-severance",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_Hospital"
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  {
   "tag": "university-hospital",
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   "note": "part of the Yonsei University Health System, joined to the university in 1957"
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   "tag": "teaching",
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   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "the country's first western-style hospital, founded 1885, and a teaching hospital since"
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  {
   "tag": "faith-based",
   "source": "s:wp-severance",
   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "founded by the American medical missionary Horace Newton Allen; the system still includes Wonju Severance Christian Hospital"
  },
  {
   "tag": "international-office",
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   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "an International Health Care Center that states it can provide an estimated cost of treatment on request before medical consent",
   "url": "https://sev.severance.healthcare/sev-en/ihc/overview.do"
  },
  {
   "tag": "no-price-published",
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   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "an estimate on request; no figure is published"
  },
  {
   "tag": "outcomes-published",
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   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "unit volumes by operation — the first 20,000 robotic operations in the world by 2018, about 2,000 coronary artery operations and about 1,300 arrhythmia treatments a year. Volume is not outcome and this project does not read it as one."
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   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism_in_South_Korea",
   "note": "the hospital's own overview page names the accreditation and no year; 2007 and the first-in-Korea claim come from the accreditor's own account and from the Korean medical travel literature"
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   "by": "kohta",
   "what": "Registered with the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare to treat foreign patients",
   "year": null,
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   "url": "http://www.medicalkorea.or.kr/en/aboutkhidi",
   "note": "the compulsory registration, not an accreditation"
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   "label": "Severance Hospital",
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   "label": "International Health Care Center",
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 "confidence": "high",
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