villacola10 Posted December 8, 2019 Author Share Posted December 8, 2019 I honestly don't know what to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazikeen Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 lol, my reaction exactly. Had this clinic on my bucketlist but its now back to the drawing board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villacola10 Posted December 11, 2019 Author Share Posted December 11, 2019 I was shocked because I thought that it would be a different clinic, GNG didn't even come to mind. I feel that it's so grueling trying to find a reputable clinic. Once you think you found one ... something awful comes up. It's exhausting! I feel like this is a part-time job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazikeen Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 ikr. So exhausting. We need more locals here of PF to give us inside tips on good clinics. I know there are good clinics in Seoul but since they don`t target foreigners we never hear about them. I have a feeling the clinics that have been blacklisted by the locals are the ones that are targeting foreigners coz the locals stay away from the. These clinics are bottom of the barrel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andriassch Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 I can relate, it took me a couple years to decide on a clinic and sometimes felt obsessive. The clinic I thought was the ideal one suddenly had a scandal because a local patient died and there were falsified documents... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krod2017 Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 Love this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owlhowl Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 That is so creepy...I don't think I want to go there anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maydayforever Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Oh wow....I was actually wondering where it was ahaha I'm glad I kept on reading this thread. Thanks for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowerbloom202 Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Thank you for sharing easier for me to eliminate the clinics since there's so many lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucasmama Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Omg.. thank you so much for sharing this! I’m planning to go Korea and get some surgeries done next month. Now I’m really concern about shadow doctor problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missorange Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Hi @lunarain, I don’t think it is GNG as GNG is an ENT hospital and it’s website does not list breast augmentation as a procedure they perform. The YouTube whistleblower mentions breast augmentation surgeries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villacola10 Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share Posted January 13, 2020 You're right, I just checked their website and they don't have breast augmentation listed! So, I had searched if GNG had offered breast augmentation in the past and I came across this on their blog. https://gngplasticsurgery.blogspot.com/2018/07/now-introducing-breast-augmentation-at.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmetellu Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 As a local Korean, we normally only go to clinics recommended by our friends/family members. The 2 plastic surgery apps? Most people know that it is full of brokers and won't even download them tbh. They are known to use pictures from other places to promote their clinics. The Naver cafes are also full of brokers (like 70% of the comments are from brokers now - usually you can tell though because they will spam the same clinic name like 2-3 times in a row in the comments from different accounts). You can pay a firm $1000/month to basically spam blog posts and comments from different accounts and make it look "organic." $1000 for a plastic surgery clinic is nothing.. it is like pocket change. So who can you trust? You can literally only trust your circle of friends or friends of friends to give recommendations. I made a post on here (purseforum) giving my experience when looking up places and I ended up going to a place my uncle (a plastic surgeon here in Seoul) recommended even though I went to 3 different consultations. Yea, Koreans will look up clinics online and stuff, but we end up going to ones recommended by our peers (this is also how parents find the best hagwons for their kids.. the best places aren't advertised) and often the best ones have like almost no advertising presence online because they don't need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madambutterfly89 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 well said. Referrals and recommendations are always the way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazikeen Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 @lemmetellu thx for this. Could you recommend a good clinic for rhinoplasty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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