Kang Dong Hospital jumped on a nationwide hospital over Busan, being included in 7 orthopedic surgery hospitals (joint disease) assigned by the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Family Affairs.

Sin Hyuk Kang, director of the hospital, had got a great reputation as a professor at Kyung Hee University Hospital for ten years. He had succeeded in the fusion surgery of a patient with ten cut fingers for the first time in the country. He was back to Korea after his training in US and Germany and opened the unexpectedly forward and specialized hospital for orthopedic surgery in Busan in 1983. After that, he got to structure the specialized hospital for orthopedic surgery with more specialized and advanced system in 1993 which was ‘Kang Dong Hospital’.

Kang Dong Hospital has the greatest pride and confidence in the artificial joint re-surgery. Its medical staffs are composed of 7 medical specialists for each orthopedic surgery area of the vertebrae, feet, sports medicine, knee joint, traumatic injury, shoulder joint, orthopedic surgery for children. It helped the patients be relieved from their worries and fear, using the most advanced surgery technique such as ‘knee joint fusion surgery with the navigation’ or ‘ceramic artificial joint surgery’

Shin Hyuk Kang, the director of Kang Dong Hospital, spares no effort to offer the service of high quality, purchasing the high priced medical instruments if it is helpful for the patients’ treatment regardless of the hospital’s profit. For example, Kang Dong Hospital introduced to Busan the ‘high-tech navigation instruments’ to make the surgery more accurate and ‘CYBER6000’ to improve the worldwide professional players’ muscular strength of feet for the first time.

Kang Dong Hospital sent the medical staffs to APEC, World Cup, Asian Games, etc, answering the nation’s asking. In 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, the French Embassy expressed its intension of the visit to the hospital when Jidan got injured, which proves the high medical quality of Kang Dong Hospital one more. Moreover, Shin Hyuk Kang, the director of the hospital, was in charge of the chairman for the medical subdivision in 2008 Busan World TreX-Games.