We treated 41,890 cases of emergency patient at Emergency Room of Wonkwang University Hospital during the past 2 years period from January 1989 to December 1990. 　The types and patterns of emergency patients are summarized as follows : 1) Factors related to increased occurrence were male (59.16% ), age of 1st decade, afternoon between 3: 00 PM and 11: 00 PM(48.5%), weekend especially on Sunday, July(9.4%) and Summer(27.3%). 2) Internal medical care was major requirement for the patients and the most predominant re- gional distribution was Iri city(52.25%). 3) Average waiting time for specialized departrnental care was 24.8 min and 23.9 of visited patient was admitted. 4) The number of the patients including DOA(0.96%) and DAA(0.26%) were 511 cases and overall mortality rate was 1.22%.