
Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) is South Korea's leading teaching and national central hospital, located in Jongno-gu, Seoul, with a history spanning more than a century since its founding as Jejungwon in 1885 and its formal establishment as a special corporation in 1978, affiliated with the College of Medicine, Seoul National University; the hospital has over 1,700 beds and serves thousands of outpatients and inpatients daily through a complex comprising the main hospital, a children's hospital, a cancer hospital, and a biomedical research institute, and is particularly renowned for neurosurgery, cardiovascular surgery, organ transplants, and cancer care, with an International Healthcare Center dedicated to international patients, including 24-hour interpreter services.