Samsung Medical Center

Samsung Medical Center (SMC) is a tertiary referral hospital in Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea, operated by the Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation. It opened on 9 November 1994 and has served as a teaching hospital of Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine since 1997. As of 31 December 2024, the hospital operated 1,766 beds and employed 7,929 staff, including 915 physicians and 3,337 nurses. Its major clinical institutes include the Samsung Comprehensive Cancer Center, opened in 2008, and the Heart Vascular Stroke Institute, established in 2014. The hospital conducts biomedical research through the Research Institute for Future Medicine and has received Stage 7 validation, the highest level, under all four maturity models administered by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). In 2015, the hospital suffered an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome, and was criticised for its poor handling of the incident.

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