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Westernized eating habits, lack of exercise, stress, smoking, and drinking causevarious modern diseases. Also these kinds of diseases are increasing rapidly. People live longer than before because of the development of science but number of cancer patients are also growing by some environmental factors. Living long with healthy body is one of the biggest issues of the modern society. To prevent this social problem, adult disease, some facilitiesthat people get help are needed. Thus, Gangnam Severance Hospital opened Health Care Center in April, 1990 and renamed to Health Promotion Center in May, 2005. It started to offer inspections at the new annex in August, 2005. It was in reconstruction from November 2008 to March 2009 and re-opened on the 4th floor of annex, in April 2009. The center promises patients to offer the best medical services. In addition, it will assist you with various high-tech programs and devices.