Inje University Seoul Paik Hospital ended all work activities including the operation of its emergency room and wards, as it closed its doors permanently on Thursday due to mounting losses.
Paik Jin-kyung, a professor at the multimedia department of Inje University, is striving to save Inje University Seoul Paik Hospital - an 82-year-old facility founded by the late uncle of her father - from permanent closure.
A final decision has been reached to permanently close the 82-year-old Inje University Seoul Paik Hospital, hospital officials announced Wednesday. Located near Myeongdong Cathedral in Seoul’s Jung-gu district, the general hospital which had opened as the nation’s first surgical hospital in 1941 has been suffering from mounting losses. While the exact closure date is yet to be decided, Seoul Paik wi.