Universal access to healthcare key to reviving Korea’s regions: Lee

President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday cast easy access to quality healthcare as a prerequisite for narrowing regional disparities in access to medical services and reviving South Korea's quieter regions.

Presiding over a meeting at Cheong Wa Dae, he called for a stronger government role in reversing the concentration of patients and medical resources in the Seoul metropolitan area.

“Both demand and supply are concentrated in one place.

We must find a way to address this problem, and I believe the ...