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Recently, medical tourism has developed noticeably in the world, and Korea is no exception. But, if the people's lack of awareness in the medical tourism and its development to the limit hits. The purpose of this study is to examine survey on the perception of students to be future healthcare professionals and their thoughts about the development of medical tourism. A total of 150 questionnaires were used in this analysis. The research questions are as follows: Awareness of medical tourism (5 items), The future impact (9 items), Comment on medical services in korea (6 items), and 8 items that need to be pursued for the development. Summary of findings are as follows : 1) Most of the students was a lack of awareness of medical tourism. However, the necessity and possibility of a positive feedback. 2) Potential job to be performed in the hospital's medical tourism has responded positively. However, changes in the health care services of the local residents due to the medical tourism industry showed a negative outlook. 3) The students was answered the opening of hospital facilities, medical tourism workforce development, professional education, national policy is important to the future needs to be pursued for the development. However, they have expressed a negative opinion about the development of concentrated in university hospitals and general hospitals. Thus, this study indicates a lack of awareness for students to engage in the medical field of medical tourism in the future and represents the positive comments on the development of medical tourism