Abstract
The hot spring industry which continued to grow has been slowly declining since it entered into the 2000s. A healthy hot spring system was introduced in an effort to improve the hot spring quality and vitalize the hot spring. However, the comment that the healthy hot spring in Korea failed to play the role of its differentiated main concept of healing and treatment has been building up. This study examined the current status and standards of hot spring facilities in Korea in order to improve it, and compared the result with the cases of Germany, the advanced hot spring country, for analysis. The study aimed at drawing the problems and improvements of the healthy hot spring facilities based on the analysis. Accordingly, the results including the enhancement of medical facilities standards, segmentalized facilities by the concept of specialized healing and treatment, the abolition of a quantitative criteria and the enhancement of such a qualitative criteria as the reinforced all-season use of swimming facilities, characterized healing facilities in each region and hot spring, and the introduction of multiplex standards connected with the hot spring land and regional resources were drawn.