Why we don't recommend clinics
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Factual information only, not a medical recommendation. SeoulSearch is not a registered medical-tourism agency, does not book or contact clinics on your behalf, and receives no payment from clinics.
What we carry
Name in Korean and in the Latin alphabet, where it is, when it is open, which specialties it lists, whether staff handle English, Japanese or Chinese, whether there is an interpreter or a dedicated desk for international patients, whether an overseas card works, whether it takes walk ins, a plain sentence on how booking is done, and whether the clinic is on the government register for receiving foreign patients, with the date of the list we checked.
We do not carry clinic phone numbers or booking links, and we do not book or contact a clinic for you.
What we do not carry
No procedure suggestions. No description of what a procedure does to you. No prices. No rankings, comparisons or superlatives. No patient reviews, ratings or testimonials. No photographs of outcomes.
Why
Korean medical law reserves medical advertising for medical professionals and medical institutions. It also prohibits introducing, arranging or steering patients to a clinic for profit. Bringing in foreign patients is an exception only for clinics and agencies registered to do it, and we are not registered. So the line we hold is simple: we describe what exists, we do not steer you to any one clinic, and we take nothing from any clinic, ever.
What that means for you
Use this app to work out which registered clinics list English or another language you need, and where they are. Use a doctor, and ideally more than one consultation, for what to have done and whether to have it done at all.
See “Visiting a Korean clinic as a foreign patient” for how visiting one works.