Jaseng Medical Foundation Offers Korean Medicine Volunteer Services to 100 Korean Nurses Dispatched to Germany

Homecoming event held to mark 60th anniversary of Korean nurses' dispatch to Germany
Event featured acupuncture, pharmacopuncture and Chuna treatments, a hanbok presentation and cultural performances

Jaseng Medical Foundation provided Korean medicine medical services and cultural performances to nurses who had returned to their homeland to mark the 60th anniversary of the dispatch of Korean nurses to Germany.

Jaseng Medical Foundation said on October 21 that it had held the “2026 Homecoming Event Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Korean Nurses’ Dispatch to Germany” on October 20 for 100 members of the Korean Nurses Association in Germany.

Shin Minsik, chair of the Social Contribution Committee at Jaseng Medical Foundation, examines a Korean nurse who was dispatched to Germany and is experiencing shoulder discomfort.

Korean nurses dispatched to Germany were nurses who moved there from the 1960s through the 1970s to support their families and seek new opportunities. The foreign currency they earned in Germany helped support their families back home and contributed to South Korea’s economic development.

Jaseng Medical Foundation said the event was organized to express gratitude to the nurses, who had spent many years caring for others’ health, and to give them an opportunity to look after their own health in their homeland. In May 2026, Jaseng Medical Foundation and the Korean Nurses Association in Germany signed an agreement on medical support for the association’s members during their homecoming visit marking the 60th anniversary of the nurses’ dispatch to Germany.

The event began with Korean medicine medical services at the Jaseng Medi-Bio Center. The nurses were divided into four groups of 25 and received integrative Korean medicine treatments, including acupuncture, pharmacopuncture and Chuna manual therapy, from medical staff at Jaseng Korean Medicine Hospital. After their appointments, they toured the center’s Korean medicine facilities. Medical staff and the Bundang Jaseng Volunteer Group supported the medical services and event operations.

The nurses later took a walk in Bundang Central Park and attended a hanbok presentation ceremony. They put on hanbok prepared by the Jaseng Volunteer Group and took commemorative photos with their colleagues. When the nurses arrived in Germany in 1966, they drew the attention of locals in their hanbok. Even while living far from home, wearing hanbok helped ease their longing for their homeland.

The commemorative event featured a performance by the Jaseng Windream Brass Band and a flower presentation to express gratitude. A video was also shown of a recitation of “White Angel,” a poem written by Shin Junsik, founder of Jaseng Korean Medicine Hospital, who has also worked as a poet, in tribute to the nurses’ dedication. Attendees enjoyed the performances and a dinner together, bringing their homecoming visit to a close.

Park Sohyang, president of the Korean Nurses Association in Germany, said, “We are deeply grateful that you have welcomed us so warmly without forgetting the time when we left our families and homeland in our youth and headed to Germany. Being able to dress in hanbok and share memories with our colleagues in our homeland for the first time in 60 years, while also looking after our health, is something we will remember for a long time.”

Shin Minsik, chairman of the Social Contribution Committee at Jaseng Medical Foundation, said, “I would like to express my deepest respect to the Korean nurses dispatched to Germany, who devoted themselves to their families and homeland while caring for patients in a foreign country. I hope this event will give them a chance to look after their health, which they have put off for so long, and to feel the warmth of their homeland.”

Representatives of the Jaseng Medical Foundation and members of the Korean Nurses Association in Germany pose for a group photo. Jaseng Medical Foundation.

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