WKMO executives including the President Chul S. Hyun, MD, PhD, Vice President (also the President of Korean American Medical Association), David Ko, MD, 2014 Convention Chair and Brazil Executive Hyung Kwon Kim, MD, Outreach Committee Director Kee Park, MD, U.S. Director Mun Hong, MD, W Medical Strategy Group President/CEO Dohyun Cho, PhD, were welcomed and accompanied by the executives from Korea, including Executive Vice President Kyoung Ryul Lee, MD, PhD, Secretary General Kyung Sun, MD, Executive Director Sanghoo Kim, MD, Directors Jongtae Yoon, MD, Kristie Kim, MD and many others. The executives had an official visit to Korea from April 20-24th to explore collaboration opportunities with government officials, physicians and healthcare industry leaders of Korea.

 

On April 20th, ‘Celebration of the Publication of World Korean Medical Journal (WKMJ)’ was held at Seoul Club in Seoul to congratulate its first issue release. Over 70 leading minds and eminent figures attended the event, including 5 national congressmen headed by Jaesae Oh, Chairman of National Assembly Committee on Health and Welfare, 30 pharmaceutical and medical device industry executives including Won-bae Kim, CEO of Dong-A ST, BG Rhee, CEO of Green Cross Holdings, Jin Auh, President of Ahn Gook Pharm, Sooin Cho, CEO of Samsung Medison, 50 leader physicians and hospital presidents such as Hee-joong Kim, Vice President of Seoul National University Hospital, and reporters from major Korean newspaper Media such as Chosun Daily and DongA Ilbo.

 

“Readers will find this new publication very informative as WKMJ plans to share scholarly work of member physicians and professionals in the healthcare industry and provide insights on healthcare industry trends presented from the network of 36,000 member physicians of WKMO across the globe,” said President Hyun in his opening remarks.

 

From April 21-23rd, WKMO executives visited the presidential residence Blue House meeting with senior advisors and had meetings with Minister of Health and Welfare Ministry, Minister of Food and Drug Safety Ministry, Vice Minister of Finance and Planning Ministry, and presidents of governmental organizations such as OKF (Overseas Koreans Foundation), KOICA (Korea Health Industry Development Institute). Also, the delegation visited the National Assembly to have detailed discussion with several political leaders.

 

For the final mission, on April 24th, the delegation visited Hanaro Medical Foundation to witness and congratulate Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony for Hanaro Foundation and W Medical Strategy Group. Through this MOU, these two organizations agreed to collaborate in enhancing the excellence of preventive healthcare screening programs of Korea to the world.