Since its establishment in 1971, Kyung Hee Medical Center has been striving to facilitate through the connection of Oriental medicine and Western medicine. As a result of such effort, the East-West Medical Center was established in May 2000.

The hospital develops and suggests a model of patient-oriented treatment. Once a patient registers, she or he gets both Oriental and Western counseling, diagnosis and treatments. It has innovative medical system that maximizes the patient satisfaction and reduces the economic burden and time consumption by minimizing the inconveniences of duplicated diagnoses and spatial movement that the patients may experience as they use Western medicine and Korean medicine hospitals separately.

About fourty specialists from more than ten clinics are working together at the center. They cooperate for the unprecedented medical system between Western medicine and Korean medicine by adopting the merits and supplementing the disadvantages of each other.

In order for these two different medicines with different backgrounds and concepts of disease to meet as a unique , it is necessary to understand and identify the fundamental difference between Western medicine and Oriental medicine, and value and trust each other.

Currently there are ten clinics: East-West Nephropathy Center, East-West Spine Center East-West Immune and Rheumatoid Center, East-West Paralysis (brain / nerve paralysis) Center, East-West Rhinitis Clinic, East-West Pain Clinic, East-West Headache Center, East-West Integrative Obesity Clinic, East-West Tinnitus-Dizzy Clinic, East-West Facial Palsy Clinic.