KIMES Offers Business Platform for Advanced Healthcare Technology
With the advent of an ageing population and the well-being trend, the global medical industry is one of the world's fastest growing industries. The demand for reliable and yet affordable medical technologies is rapidly growing. And with the advanced IT technology such as mobile solutions and next-generation digital medical equipment, it has been focusing on creating a people-oriented healthcare environment.
At this point of such dramatic changes, KIMES - representing the medical industry trends in Asia, beyond South Korea - will provide opportunities for visitors to see the future of the medical environment even more upgraded, as well as healthcare solutions to hospitals and to people¡¯s homes.
KIMES serves as an ideal platform to raise the standards of the medical and hospital industry both in Korea and internationally, raising itself as one of the world¡¯s leading specialized medical exhibitions. In Korea, medical professionals have particularly keener interests and show a higher level of research on new medical technology such as robotic surgery and the U-health care system based on perfect IT infrastructure. And the governmental investment and effort to boost the healthcare industry has been increasing as well, creating an increasingly growing local market. Global companies have been constantly making investments to gain a foothold in the dynamic Northeast Asian markets for exports and building R&D centers in Korea. Against this backdrop, Korea's representative medical equipment show, KIMES 2013 Fair will take place at COEX from March 21 through 24, attended by approximately 1,015 exhibitors from 37 countries and 60,000 visitors from 70 countries in a venue covering 36,007 square meters.
Reflecting its rising status on the global stage, the KIMES 2012 exhibition was attended by 458 local companies and 978 companies from foreign countries such as the USA, Germany, the UK, Japan, Italy, Taiwan and China, which introduced up to 30,000 or more items such as advanced medical equipment, hospital equipment, medical information and medical products.

KIMES, the Platform of Asian Network
In order to boost the domestic and overseas medical industry and maximize the effect of the exhibition, KIMES has been building a global network with America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Central and South, or the Middle East with overseas associations, relegated organization or KIMES¡¯ oversees agents. And it provides vast information on the Korean market to the delegations in charge of overseas purchasing and opens the field of network for the actual consultation of purchasing.
Top Quality Activities at KIMES More than 60 sessions of medical academic seminars, practical new products, workshops, medical policy seminars, and international marketing seminars will be held during the KIMES 2013 to convey the most up-to date information to visitors. KIMES provides the opportunity to meet active Korean buyers. From general hospitals to medical clinics, medical buyers with purchasing power at KIMES are the bridgehead to penetrate Korean medical market.
KIMES provides business matching system as a tool to connect active buyers to come to you during the exhibition and help you to fulfill your wants and expectations.

Scale of Korean Medical Device Market
- Scale of the Korean medical device market in 2010: 3.9 trillion won (7.1% increase from the previous year)
- Average annual growth rate between year 2005 and 2010: 9.0% (rapid growth of the Korean medical device industry)
- Medical Device production in 2010: 2.96 trillion won (7.2% increase from the previous year)
- Medical Device import in 2010: 2.6 trillion won (9.2% increase from the previous year)

MEK-ICS Co., Ltd. specializes in HFV (High Frequency Ventilation), which is the method of mechanical breathing to help to maintain the pulmonary respiration in small amounts of oxygen by making patients breathe through fast ventilation at an average of 300 to 1,200 times per minute.

With excellent designing and engineering capability in Xray technology, Dongmun manufactures high-quality X-ray machines, including digital mobile X-Ray system and surgical C-Arm X-ray system. With the CE approval, it mainly exports to the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, South Africa and Europe

Founded in 1994, Poskom designs and manufactures the highest quality diagnostic x-ray systems, x-ray generators and power supplies for the medical and telecommunications industries. With more than 70% of domestic market share, Poskom supplies customized generators and x-ray modules to major Korean and international manufacturers. Poskom portable x-ray units are a top brand in the global market and popular among many medical doctors and veterinarians.

JPI Healthcare specializes in manufacturing and distributing Xray equipments and components, including, X-ray Grid, X-ray Film Processor, Xray Cassette, X-ray Apron and Digital Radiography.

Founded in 1999, Vieworks Co., Ltd. has been one of the leading developers of advanced digital medical image processing, signal processing for imaging sensor, high precision optics and opto-mechanical design. The in-house R&D team of Vieworks designs, develops, manufactures and provides the most advanced camera systems to digital imaging systems for digital radiography, digital fluoroscopy and angiography systems.

Genoray Co.,Ltd is a professional x-ray manufacturer that is engaged in developing and manufacturing higher grade C-Arm, Mammography, Dental CT, Panorama, Cephalo and Dental Portable X-ray. Through abundant experience and expertise in X-ray equipment, Genoray continuously offers industry leading X-ray equipment.

¡®KMC-950IIG¡¯, the new product that concentrates GEMSS¡¯s all experiences and knowhow, is equipment that focuses on user convenience and safety. ¡®KMC-950IIG¡¯uses its original 1k*1K digital CCD camera to provide a clear resolution and a broad exposure range (10mA) to provide high?quality pictures.

Samsung Medison, a global leading medical devices company, announced the launch of ¡®UGEO H60¡¯, the first product of the ultrasound system brand ¡®UGEO¡¯, which comprises Samsung¡¯s latest IT technology and smart design. UGEO H60 displays both high performance and stylish design, just as the slogan ¡®Performance in Style¡¯ suggests. Installed with a Hybrid Imaging Engine to produce the clearest and most accurate images possible, it also features the image processing technology SDMR¢â to provide sharper 2D images for optimal diagnostic performance. S-Flow¢â, an innovative function that enables color detection with superior sensitivity, allows even micro vessels to appear in high resolution.

Mega Medical started off by producing domestically manufactured medical equipment to treat ear, nose, and throat problems. Since then, it has grown to become the leading company in the field with the largest market share. Currently, it is working hard to expand its market share in abroad such as China, Turkey and the Middle East.

OsteoSys Co., Ltd. is the Korea¡¯s leading maker of BMD (Bone Mineral Densitometer). The company was established in January 2000 and was the first to successfully localize the BMD. It is now the first in Asia to possess the total solution in relation to BMD including ultrasound & WB-DEXA.

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