It is widely recognized that medical(health) tourism industry is very important for the nation's economic development. From the early times, the advanced countries including U.S.A. and European countries have exerted to induce overseas patients by making use of their advanced medical technics, but nowadays, many southeastern Asian countries including Thailand, Singapore etc. are doing their best to develop health tourism by providing overseas peoples with the best medical services and travel opportunities in their countries. Korea is one of the developing countries in the field of international health tourism industry. However, it is propelling very positively to develop health tourism industry recently. Korea is recognizing well that health tourism industry contribute much to its service industry by increasing the nation's employment and people's income. Accordingly, Korean government is endeavoring itself to pave the ways for inducing more foreign travelers who want to get medical services with enjoying Korean culture. The aims of this thesis are to examine Korean recent policies and systems to develop health tourism industry, and think over the desirable schemes to advance quickly it. In fact, Korea is the most promising country to become the hub of medical tourism industry because Korean medical technical level is very high, and also, Korean cultural wave(Hallyu) is very popular all over the world in recent days. Nevertheless, there are many problems to be solved, including the systems and laws for inducing overseas patients, the globalization of medical man-power, settlement of medical disputes, medical visa, high medical expenses etc.