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@gmcnm1920 This is also going to likely fall under Korean Contract Law and the Korean Civil Act and its various Civil Codes. http://koreanlii.or.kr/w/index.php/Sales In civil law language, a deposit is considered "Arrha" (an object in ancient Rome, usually a ring or a sum of money / given, upon entering into a contract, as an earnest). In modern legal terms, it's a deposit paid to demonstrate commitment and to bind a contract, with the remainder due at a particular time. If the contract is breached by failure to pay, then the earnest payment is kept by the recipient as pre-determined (liquidated) or committed damages. The rule concerned with arrha can be found in Korean Civil Code article 565, stating: ① If one of the parties to a contract of sale has delivered, at the time of entering into the contract, money or other things under the name of down payment, assurance deposit, etc. to the other party, unless otherwise agreed upon between the parties, the deliverer by giving up such money, and the receiver by repaying double such money, may terminate such contract before one of the parties has initiated performance of the contract. "WTF: English Please" This law is basically saying both parties can terminate. If you terminate, you give up the deposit, but if the clinic cancels your surgery they have to pay twice the deposit back to you. However @Jabba and @Rey may be referring to more specific law (I know it exists just need to find it) that no cancellation policy was cited or put in place, which may fall somewhere in commercial & civil law that may give you rights to the full deposit or some partial amount. I'll see what I can dig up. Since this falls under civil law, meaning the law that deals with behavior that constitutes an injury to an individual or other private party, such as a corporation, it can't be reported to the police per se, but you would have grounds to cite it, that you can legitimately file for damages in civil law suit. I'm no Korean law expert, but essentially this can be cited to them: Korean Version: http://law.go.kr/법령/민법/제565조 My Advice Before you start busting out Korean law codes at your clinic consultant like Harvey Specter on a K-Drama version of "Suits." Try to exhaust all reasonable, polite and civil means, and escalate as needed. First ask them for the deposit back since you want to cancel If they say, "no refunds." Ask, "can you please show me the no refund policy and where and when I agreed to it?" If they say, "we don't have one, but still no refunds" Tell them, "I have legal grounds to escalate this matter. I am not going to waste my time and money on a law suit, but I can easily file a complaint and use free government resources available to me from the Korean Consumer Agency, Korean Federal Trade Commission, and the Ministry of Health, and Korean Tourism Organization. And it's going to be your time that's wasted answering to all of them. All of them will likely ask you for the same agreement or policy, and it will prove that I am right, so let's save that hassle. Please give me my money back, and I will tell others how cooperative and understanding you were, and you can go on to make a more clear policy for others. If not, we can drag this out and I can vent to everyone how difficult this experience has been for me, and I did not even have surgery at your clinic."

extremely helpful! thank you

i made a separate post on how to check if surgeons are board certified. (https://beautyhacker.com/topic/1012254-checking-if-a-doctor-is-certified-by-the-korean-association-of-plastic-surgeons/?tab=comments#comment-33153827). please check out the link. thanks.

anyone knows if this is the site where i can check if surgeons are certified? http://www.prskorea.co.kr/english/

thank youuu. Planning to go next year