Technology transfer

Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital President Hwang Tae-kon, fifth from left, poses with Batsuuri Byambadorj, sixth from left, director of the First Central Hospital of Mongolia, after signing an agreement to transfer blood and bone marrow stem cell transplantation technology for free, Monday. Mongolia has had no case of blood and marrow transplantation so far while the hospital in southern Seoul performed 429 transplants last year, or more than 30 percent of all such procedures in Korea. Following the agreement, Mongolian doctors will get training in Seoul while a Korean professor will be dispatched to Mongolia until the country performs five successful transplants. / Courtesy of Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital