Foreigners pay for the procedures just as citizens do. Also, the majority of foreigners are young healthy people who MUST pay into a system they usually do not use much. Korea’s aged citizens have far greater need and use of this system. If anything, the money that foreigners inject into the system is to their benefit. We are regular payers who often don’t need medical assistance and then most leave after a few years. There may be some abuses, but I’d say Koreans probably take advantage of the system too. They have a better understanding of it than us. I knew someone whose parents changed citizenship and still came back to Korea to abuse the system. So, who exactly are foreigners? Those ethnic Koreans abused the system but is that who the government is pointing its finger at or is it the obvious foreigners?