Why Korean mothers are traveling 300 kilometers to give birth

“High-risk pregnant women in South Korea are being sent hundreds of kilometers, sometimes by helicopter, in search of hospitals able to deliver their babies, exposing deep shortages in the country’s obstetric emergency system. Recent incidents across the country have highlighted what experts describe as a systemic breakdown in emergency maternal care, particularly outside the Seoul metropolitan area. In one of the most severe cases last week, a woman who was 29 weeks pregnant in Cheongju, North C

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