When Korean's has the independence has to development the welfare and the access to the service of universal health care for the people.
Subsequently, The Korean Health Insurance Act was passed in 1963 and 12 voluntary health insurance programs have been organized since 1965. The history of voluntary health insurance shows that it was hardly capable of achieving the goal of universal health coverage and in fact, only 0.2% of the Koreans were covered by the scheme after 12 years in operation despite substantial amounts of government subsidization (Shin & Lee, 1996). The country's health insurance system was introduced in 1977 with the Medical Aid program (a public assistance program for the poor). Finally, Korea established universal health insurance coverage in.1989. Thereafter, South Korea has faced the problems of better funding insurance schemes in order to cope with rising demands and pooling community risk by the operate extended its National Health Insurance to universal coverage in 1989.And in the year of 2000 the health insurance in South Korea has to the consolidated various health insurance agencies into one single organization to facilitate more equitable risk pooling