South Korea’s Second Hospital Building in Cambodia to be Built by Late 2025

Phnom Penh (11 November 2025): South Korea’s new, modern, five-story hospital building worth $16 million located at the National Children’s Hospital in Cambodia’s Phnom Penh capital is built by the end of 2025.

The new hospital building covering more than 8,300 square meters with the cost about $16 million ($11 million for building and another $5 million for medical equipment and decorating), will be finished by the end of 2027.

The building can accommodate 196 beds and has a place for training and direct practice for pediatric doctors from various provinces, and has outpatient departments for each specialty, a cafeteria, a children’s play area, and has created new services for children such as ear, nose, throat, eye, kidney, endocrine diseases, pediatric dialysis, leukemia, lung, gastrointestinal cancer, gastroscopy, bronchial tubes, and autism, etc, Dr. Nhep Angkapus, Director of the National Children’s Hospital, said Monday.

The building is the second one that the Korean government has offered to the National Children’s Hospital – the first, three-story building was built in 2007 known as the Cambodia-Korea Friendship Building.

Earlier this year, South Korean Ambassador to Cambodia PARK Jung-Wook said that for 2025, the Korean government would provide some $350 million in assistance to Cambodia.

The budget focused on several sectors such as education, water management, health and sanitation, transportation, and rural development, making Cambodia the largest recipient of Official Development Assistance from Korea, ranking first among the 92 Official Development Assistance partner countries.

The assistance is also including 27 concessional loans, including the Cambodia-Korea Friendship Bridge Project, and 62 grant projects, including a capacity-building project for the National Children’s Hospital. Chhay Sophal