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In Korea, it is prohibited to establish profit-making corporation of hospital within Medical Law. All Medical corporations are thus not-fo r-profit, meaning that although entities may earn substantial profits o r surpluses, those funds must be devoted to the entities' charitable, r eligious or public purposes. Medical industrialization theory tries to pr omote the capital's investment in medical service segment by presenti ng the permit for profit-making hospital and the promotion of private medical insurance. Medical market open is a reality we can't avoid by WTO, DDA(Do ha Development Agenda). Changes in medical industry and open mark et analyzing the flow of medical policy and various circumstances. Th e medical hub strategy is a solution for the development of medical i ndustry. Attracting foreign hospitals and foreign patients will open job opportunities and raise profit. Up until now, discussions regarding for-profit medical corporations have been that of arguing for or against the introduction, each side p roviding advantages and disadvantages that may occur as the outcom e. Some of the advantages that have been mentioned include; through allowing investments from various fields of area other than that of m edical fields, higher amounts of investments would occur; such invest ments would lead to greater competition among health care entities, enhancing the quality of medicine overall; and inefficiency due to ma nagement by health care professionals would be replaced by more m aket-oriented officers bringing better management results. Disadvanta ges include: infusion of large investments would breakdown the healt h care system through leading small to medium size hospitals bankru pt. Though the establishment and management of foreign hospital in ' Free Economic Zones' is permitted by law, it has several serious pro blems. One of the important problems is the possibility of permission for-profit corporation to domestic hospitals. Another problem is all he alth care institutions must enroll in National Health Insurance system as provider.