Second, the private medical care sector currently consumes about 90% of total health care resources, particularly in terms of hospital beds. Korean governments have had little interest in expanding the public health care delivery sector, except for community public health centers known as Bogeunso. The other publicly owned institutions are the National Medical Center, built by the US Army during the Korean War in 1950, and provincial medical centers built by Japanese colonizers. These public institutions provide only 10% of total health care services. Almost all the rest of Korean health care facilities are for-profit. This private sector-dominated health care system is another stimulus for the increased use of highly expensive medical care.As in the case of the oversupply of medical specialists, the Korean government has not been able to formulate any policy alternatives to the private sector-dominated delivery system.