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Korea treated over two million foreign patients in 2025. Almost none of them could find out what anything cost before arriving.
The information exists. Korean hospitals are legally required to publish their prices for treatment that national insurance does not cover, and the government publishes those disclosures as open data. But it is in Korean, structured for regulators rather than patients, and answers one hospital at a time — so the question a foreign patient actually has, what does this cost and is that normal, goes unanswered.
That gap is what this site fills. Nothing here is proprietary. Anyone could build it; it simply had not been built.
Why it matters more for foreigners
If you are not enrolled in Korean national health insurance, nothing you receive is covered. The non-covered price list is not a niche subset of your bill — it is your entire bill. A Korean resident reading these pages is looking at the uncovered fraction of their care; a visiting patient is looking at all of it.
How it is funded
Advertising. No hospital pays to appear here, to rank higher, or to be described in a particular way — there is no mechanism by which they could. No referrals are made and no commission is taken on anything.
That is a deliberate boundary, not only an ethical one. Under Korean law, arranging treatment for foreign patients in exchange for payment makes an organisation a registered facilitator with obligations attached. This site publishes information and does not arrange care.
Limits
The data has real gaps — most importantly it does not cover clinic-level practices, which is where most Korean cosmetic surgery happens. The methodology page sets out exactly what is and is not in here, and how the comparisons are calculated.
Contact
Corrections and questions are welcome, particularly from hospitals whose published prices have changed.
Please do not send medical details or personal health information. This site cannot give medical advice, cannot arrange treatment, and has no way to help with a specific case.