KSA

History

The Korean Society of Anesthesiologists (KSA) was founded in 1956 / and has made efforts to promote exchange of information between Korean anesthesiologists and to actively participate in the activities of international societies of anesthesiologists.

KSA HISTORY

1950: New era of contemporary anesthesia was opened during Korean war.

1956.11.10: The Korean Society of Anesthesiologists (KSA) was founded -- The inaugral meeting of Korean Society of Anesthesiologists was held with 9 anesthesiologists.

1957: The KSA was authorized as a member society of Korean Medical Association.

1958: Department of Anesthesiology was independent from the Surgical department for the first time.

1963: The firtst examination for board of anesthesiology was done.

1968.11.1: The first issue of the Korean Journal of Anesthesiology was published.

Now KSA is a large community of above 6000 members, and has 16 subspecial associations.
We meet annually to exchange and to share scholatic information.
For more information about our international annual meeting, please visit www.koreanesthesia.org