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For the purpose of vitalizing the medical dispute mediation and arbitration by Korea Medical Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Agency, it is important to expand human resources & physical facilities in addition to ensuring fairness of case processing and organizing the legal system. Since fairness of case processing is directly related to people's trust, it is necessary to appropriately adjust the percentages between patients and health & medical service personnel by constituents of the Agency in charge of related work. Based on this, it would be necessary to change the mind-set of blindly expecting advantageous outcome by patients regarding the court ruling as the Agency processes cases commissioned from court as much as possible. In addition, allowing Minister of Health and Welfare to directly become involved in every area of the Agency's affairs including its work, accounting & assets and human resources can invade the independence and autonomy of the Agency. There is also a possibility that the Agency will perform its work in a heteronomous manner by climbing on the bandwagon resulting from the government's policy change. It will then lead to a situation where the Agency will be limited in gaining people's trust as an objective and fair agency. Accordingly, it would be necessary to prepare articles of association of the Agency to ensure its operation and work to be performed continuously without wavering. In addition, Minister of Health and Welfare as competent authorities should just remain the role of supervising whether the Agency is being operated according to its articles of association. Lastly, it is necessary to organize the legal system to induce the participation in mediation and arbitration by health & medical service personnel. This will require efforts such as improving the system related to the procedure after requesting mediation and arbitration, as well as organizing the system of valuation authorities and improving the exceptional clause on criminal punishment. It would be also necessary to expand the Agency's facilities and human resources to allow people to easily and quickly use the Agency by establishing the Agency branches in major regions of the country.