한국전쟁, 서울역 세브란스의 재건

Abstract

The departments and expert groups that achieved the greatest growth and results through the Korean war were medical ones. Thus, we could say that the roots of Korean medical history are the Korean War and the process of reconstruction. We investigate the reconstruction and restoration progress of Severance Medical College and Hospital, focusing on the interrelationship between the Korean War and medicine through this article. All medical colleges in Korea were expanded by UNCACK aid and support. In other words, they were supported by the 8th United States Army, which was the higher command of UNCACK. The path of Severance Hospital, which was private, and its college were outstanding during the Korean war. It included the following actions: returning to administrative capital more rapidly than the central administration, establishing the only hospital in Seoul for a time, and operating the college on Geoje Island. Severance Hospital and College returned to Seoul from Geoje Island in February 1952. After their return, some of Korean Service Corps (KSC) were admitted to the hospital in March. Afterward, as the hospital treated war orphans and reopened in April 1952, the classes of the medical college were resumed in June. The outpatient department had around one hundred patients, and about sixty war orphans occupied wards for treatment there. The Severance Medical College returned rapidly to prewar status or even better, while other universities in Pusan were maintained as united universities in a wartime status. The United Nations Command understood that Japan’s medical system was inferior to a modern one. The Korean War caused a change in the Japanese-style medical colleges, hospital administration, and teaching methods previously used in Korea.