The act designed to develop Korean Medicine by specializing the characteristics and merits to manage and promote effectively was formulated in Aug 2003. The first independent law on KM providers the bodies concerned with the statutory authority to concentrate on supporting and developing it at a government level.

The Minister of Health and Welfare shall establish a comprehensive plan for the development of Korean Medicine and Pharmaceutics ("comprehensive plan") every five years. The 4th comprehensive plan(2021-2025) was established in 2021, and the project is being implemented under the four goals and detailed strategies of promoting health welfare in the Korean medicine dominant region, improving the Korean medicine use system, innovative growth in the Korean medicine industry, and strengthening the global competitiveness of Korean medicine.

The project is to enhance health of the residents of the community by providing them with medical care and health improving programs of Korean Medicine at the public health center. It is designed to meet the increased demand for the KM due to the growing number of patients of chronic and intractable diseases and the ageing of the population. Some KM doctors were committed to the public health center in farming and fishing area in 1998 and the enforced area was extended to 331 public health centers in 2022. The government financially and Administratively support the project.

Some KM doctors render the medical services without charge to those in the lower income brackets, the aged and infirm of the country. Others organized Korean Medicine Service Team Abroad(KOMSTA) in 1993 have been in full blast in sending over 170 medical service teams to 29 countries, as of 2023, establishing Korean Medicine hospitals, where they have left good impression of KM on the peoples of the world through the humanitarian activities. Besides the short-term services, Korean Medicine doctors named ‘International cooperation doctor’ are dispatched to foreign countries by the government and take medical treatment for the term of two years in the hospital designated by the country concerned. This project is a part of the international cooperation of the Korea International Cooperation Agency(KOICA).

The association administers the continuing education for KM doctors, which is committed by the Ministry of Health & Welfare according to the medical law(article 28) and the constitution of the association as a part of extended education for lifetime to improve the competence of the members as medical professionals. All the members except those exempted shall complete the programs and acquire over 8 credits every year.