Samsung Medical Center

Samsung Medical Center
Hangul	삼성의료원
Hanja	三星醫療院
Revised Romanization	Samseong uiryowon
McCune–Reischauer	Samsŏng ryowŏn

Samsung Medical Center (SMC; Korean: 삼성의료원) is a tertiary hospital located in Irwon-Dong of Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, South Korea. SMC is composed of Samsung Seoul Hospital, Kangbook Samsung Hospital, Samsung Changwon Hospital, and Samsung Life Sciences Research Center. SMC was founded on November 9, 1994.

In 2015, it had a capacity of 1,979 beds and treated 85,208 inpatients and 2,027,211 outpatients.

In 2015, the hospital suffered an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome, and was criticised for its poor handling of the incident.