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Hello / salut everyone, I hope everyone is safe and surviving during these crazy corona days. Like many of you, I am stuck at home, binging on Netflix, and have been meaning to update and post a review about my journey to Korea, and surgery at Wannabe Plastic Surgery so I'll kickstart it now.

I had my procedure in early Feb so will try to recall details and break things up into multiple posts to follow and will also reply to any questions in between.

• POST 1: Pre-Planning and Consultation (this one)
• POST 2: Operation date & follow-ups (coming next)
• POST 3: Recovery and results (coming next)

POST 1: Pre-Planning and Consultation (this one)

TLDR;

• Nice, smaller and mellow clinic
• Friendly staff and consultant
• Smart doctors with good and believable B & As
• Decent pricing, not the cheapest, but not the highest
• Not for people excepting red carpet, large clinic experience
• They don't take foreign currency, so make sure to exchange at bank in advance.

I've always had these hereditary style under-eye hollows typical with french Algerians and Moroccans. Almost raccoon like. I did some consultations in London and Paris, but never felt confident i'd get the results i wanted from European doctors.

so I found myself considering Korea, and eventually began diving into research. I was lurking in a few chat groups and found some more helpful than others. the best one i was in was managed by a ps research savant (kino), so i learned a lot from digesting his/her posts.

from their tips i did my research and outreach and then began narrowing down my list. i was pretty set on wannabe from my back and forth messages and responses i was getting back.

I had my consult with wannabe in early February and was keen on them because of Dr Chang/Jang's specialty with the under-eye area. He's a pretty well-rounded plastic surgeon, but i think his eye-area specialty is pretty remarkable.

Wannabe is a smaller-boutique style clinic. It's on the 2nd floor of this building near the apgujeong subway station that has a few other smaller clinics in there.

Good things come in small packages

The consultant there is named Alice, she's a friendly and personable young lady. I clicked with her right away (the french like Canadians). She asked me what I wanted and went over my goals, and we took it from there.

The next step was meeting Dr Jang (can also be spelled as chang). His English is OK, but Alice did most of the interpreting and he understood my goals

He suggested under-eye fat repositioning and grafting some fat into the eye area. bio and medicine is not really my strong suit so people can read more about how they do it on their site http://english.wannabeps.com/clinic1/clinic1_06.htm.

Dr Jang answered all my questions pretty well, and I really liked his personality. He was very mellow, yet attentitve and intelligent. I was pretty happy with the consultant and just knew in my gut I wanted to go there, so I decided to took a leap of faith.

coming up:
post 2: operation date & post op care
post 3: recovery & results

 

Thanks for sharing this. I also had a really great consult this past week at Wannabe Plastic Surgery and can attest too that it's really a hidden gem and worth checking out. I've pulled the trigger with them and put down my deposit.

Congrats on deciding looking forward to your posts about JW.

 

I'm going to be coming to Korea this week on Tuesday, and staying for 4 weeks. My schedule is still flexible with consultation and surgery since i'm debating to do sight seeing before or after.

I need to confirm dates, but will keep everyone posted here. i'm pretty much set on Dr Chang at Wannabe but 99.9% but will pull the trigger after the consultation. I've had good interaction with wannabe and their cosultant alice so far, and chang's work looks impressive enough so i feel i'll be in good hands.

 

I'm going to be doing consultation this week, and will have to see what's availability for surgery. I'm going to be in Seoul for 4 weeks. I'm pretty set on wannabe just want to do the face to face, and I have myself some buffer time, so i can go sight seeing and look and seoul before and after surgery.

yeah, it can be pretty nerve wracking, but i'm not worried. i saw this video where dr chang actually did the procedure on another plastic surgeon.

 

thanks for sharing this! wow, it was not only just a patient, but another plastic surgeon he performed the surgery on.

 

@bobamilktea thanks for sharing your experience. I have a good feeling about this place and happy you shared this. Although DES is not my plate, might be, and i'm aiming for Dr Chang for under eye at Wannabe.

Was it Dr Ho? I mixed this up as well and asked Alice and she said my doctor is Dr Chang, but seen alternative spellings as Jang his full Korean name is:

• Last name: Chang/Jang (depends on spelling)
• First name is Chul Ho:

Koreans seem to put last names first when they say their name.

http://english.wannabeps.com/medical/medical_02.php

Thanks!

 

@Indonitaly thanks for the update and nice results. I'll look into la prin as well. my main concern is dark circles, under eye bags and hollows and i'm leaning towards wannabe plastic surgery and Dr Chang. he seems like he has a very good technique for this.

 

I had a lot of similar concerns as well and have been learning the under eye area not so simple & straight forward to treat. based on my research I'm leaning towards wannabe plastic surgery. i like their focus and their technique sounds interesting. but i will know more after consulting face to face, but started a thread here: https://beautyhacker.com/forums/topic/1022583-under-eye-fat-repositioning-internal-fixiation-wannabe-plastic-surgery/

 

I'm 95% sure, I'm going to pull the trigger on Dr Chang. I scheduled a face to face, but so far after sending multiple photos and chatting with them, it sounds like a good fit for me and my goals. I've scheduled the consult with Wannabe along with Teium and will keep everyone posted.

 

Yes you're right, Dr Chang is correct. thanks wouldn't want to go in there calling him a Ho... ;- o
I dm'ed their coordinator alice on kakao about if the procedure can fix negative vector and she said the following:


So I guess it's possible, but if there not enough fat they will add it.

@angelbuty.jd yes, double eyelid has got to be the most common procedure in korea. they said Dr Chang does incisional, but is very skilled in non-incisional or natural adhesion method. but don't take my word for it. they have a lot of cases on their website before and after section.

 

Bonjour!

Was wondering if anyone's had experience with Wannabe. Plastic Surgery? specifically for eye bag treatment?

I came across a research paper written by one of their doctors, Dr Ho, where he created a special technique called "EZ-Tcon."

It sounds & looks like a blend or hybrid between incisional and non-incisional blepharoplasty where they use some special needling technique to reposition the fat which gives lesser downtime.

There seems to be a lot of cases and results from their photo gallery, but was curious if anyone here had any experience having this done? The Canadian lady that works at the clinic has been helpful, but was curious if others have consulted or had surgery there. or if anyone has had a successful lower blepharoplasty elsewhere, would be interested in hearing about that.

Here's a video showing this technique

 

everyone's mentioned airbnbs but i think since you mentioned you're a student and you might be alone maybe a homestay would be an option. it's like where you stay with a host family.

 

I've been asking around a few clinics and putting some of my own notes together and this is what i've learned so far:

• basic general treatments: no fee to consult (unless you need a 3rd party interpreter)
• skin clinics there may be a fee that is around 8 euros / 8 us dollars
• for some big surgeries like two jaw or revision contouring there can be some scan and exam fee ($50 ~ $100)