best plastic surgery clinics in Korea

[sesamekiss]

beautyobsessed said:

Her name is xixi, she specialize in "plastic surgery tour" yes she do reservation for the clinic you are interest in, taking care of you after your surgery. But i haven't meet her yet, so i do not know how good her service is. I contact her by email, she respond quite fast compare to zoe, which need more than a day to reply my email. That's way i take a shot

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Oh cool - would you be able to PM me her email address?

 

[beautyobsessed]

shouislove said: ↑

"she" is doing alright

as for the recovery that is. now the swelling has gone down Im not so satisfied with my nose bridge, cuz he made it lower than before. practically back to when I didn't do anything to my nose. a bit sad I asked him for a higher bridge and got a now barely visible one. buuut, oh well. just proves plastic surgery often requires a lot of revisions lol!

I want gingercandys nose! it's so purdy!

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I don't want any revision i will throw engagement party on january. So confuse to choose which the right one. I know that everyone had different experience, but did Dr hong give you suggestion about ideal nose? How come you became disatisfied?
Did you met emisa also? It's look like all of you had some "plastic surgery fun"
Now, based on your experience and compare to the result which clinic is better?

 

[via]

Hey guys I was about to go for Banobagi for Chin procedure then I read again somepart in this forum mentioned on chin sagging after the procedure.
I remember consulting on one of the korean clinic and the doctor mentioned how cheekbones procedure need constant lift/botox for it to stay tight etc.
And that in the long run it is the narrow face that actually make us look older.
I'm so confused now
What do you guys think? Is it true ? and if it is do you guys did neck lift etc sometime after the procedure?

Thanks heaps , hope y'all could advice me

 

[babii-namky]

kkim120 said: ↑

Hey! Thanks for thinking about me

I'm doing fine, like someone recovering from a bad head cold... I thought plastic surgery would be so easy, but after two nights of not being able to sleep due to the cotton balls stuffed up my nose, I realize.. It's not a walk through the park.

But since I had the cotton gauze removed yesterday, I had a full 10 hours of sleep!

As for my nose, I've deswelled quite a bit around my face, but my nose is still huge... If I tilt my head up and look at the bottom of my nose, I can see that my nose is definitely more triangular... But from the front, it's big and even a bit upturned.

Kim from UK keeps telling it's normal for tiplasty to have an upturned nose effect, and doctors on realself confirm that as the swelling resolves itself the tip will also come down... But what I'm seeing in the mirror is actually a little disheartening. Nothing to do but wait for the swelling to go away and ice!

And I really want to scrub my face... especially my nose... D:

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Hi Kim!!! You had gauze in your nose for 48 hours?? I could imagine how hard it is to breath through your mouth for that long. Well, at least you are done! Now, it's my turn...Did dr.suh say how long it takes until you can see the real shape of the nose? Don't worry too much, i'm sure it will be beautiful once the swelling subsides. I don't want an upturned nose either >.< After your surgery, would you recommend dr.suh to others? Did you see other patients with good results at JW?

P.S: When can you start washing your face?!

 

[shouislove]

beautyobsessed said: ↑

I don't want any revision i will throw engagement party on january. So confuse to choose which the right one. I know that everyone had different experience, but did Dr hong give you suggestion about ideal nose? How come you became disatisfied?
Did you met emisa also? It's look like all of you had some "plastic surgery fun"
Now, based on your experience and compare to the result which clinic is better?

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I guess what he thought was ideal, differs from what I think is. go back and read my review about him, if u want a more detailed answer.

 

[beautyobsessed]

shouislove said: ↑

alright, so its been about a week and a half for me, and its about time i update

i had sliding genio, rhino and fat grafting done by dr hong, and i must say i love the results. very subtle, but definitely better than before.

gingercandy had good postop care from bk, eightbelow not so good(?) as for mine, id say it was minimal. stayed just 1 night postop at the hospital, then was transfered to the guesthouse. luckily i didnt have a lot of swelling nor pain, so it was all bearable.

id recommend dr hong, if youre looking to enhance your features. like, he didnt really take into concern what nose i wanted, even though i brought a lot of references, but luckily for me, the nose he gave me suited my face. i asked for higher bridge, smaller and sharper tip - got hardly no augmentation of the bridge, round and upturned tip lol

i agree 100% with gingercandy that hes one of those sophisticated artist types lol

good luck to the september party! youll be here real soon now!

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I just read your post. You said that you recomend him, but you were not satisfied on your nose. Little bit confuse, sorry hehe
But from your post, it can see that you n gingercandy were happy with the result. And i hope you guys happy, because doing revision will be harder than the first time. Maybe it's too early to judge. Are you still have some swelling?

 

[lotsajunkie]

London_chick said:

Hey!!! Sooo sorry for nor emailing you back - since I had the surgery on Friday I haven't been on purse forum coz I was too busy icing my nose - 20mins on and 10 mins off, repeat etc so it seems like 24/7 lol.

No I didn't get to my jw appointment on time. I did go but BK kept me waiting and by the time I got to JW, Yumi said they had waited for me but Dr Suh was doing a surgery right now - understandable as I got there like 40 mins late but thought I'd try anyway. I rushed to my 3pm appointment with Dr Park at OZ and I'm SO glad I saw him. I was with him for about 45mins and I felt super comfortable. And coz he speaks English very well there was zero communication problems.

You asked about the price I paid. Though the price wasn't the biggest factor for me I was happy with Dr Park's quote which was about $4300. So that was for osteotomy to shave the laterall sides of my nasal bone, humpectory to shave and smooth down the hump on my bridge, and tiplasty using septal cartilage. He also gave me a little discount coz I paid cash. I thought it was reasonable as I was having a few things done, and at BK they quoted me more than that even though Dr Hong recommended only humpectory and tiplasty without the osteotomy. I thought, what was the point in just shaving down the hump and not the sides by osteo, coz from the front I'd still have a very wide nasal bone - which may look worse if he just shaved down the hump, the width could look even more wide and flat. Dr Park said it didn;t make sense to just shave down the hump and not narrow the nasal bone. I completely agreed with him.

I want to stress to you and anyone who is thinking of having surgery to note that surgery IS an emotional rollercoaster. When you're reading these forums it's easy to read and research and decide that yeah I'm gonna have surgery. Even though this is something I've wanted from a very young age I didn't realise that surgery could be traumatising... I won't go into detail of my sedation and experience during surgery but lets just say that I didn't just go to sleep and wake up and it was all done. Once they sedate you with the anesthesia, different people react to it in different ways. My experience wasn't great and let's just say I was awake from the second half of the surgery onwards (meaning I heard EVERYTHING, including the rasping/grinding of my nasal bone, pleasant I know lol) but I just didn't feel anything. The first half I was in a trance, or as kkim neatly described it, it was like taking the strongest LSD drug.

My point is, the experience will effect people in different ways, so please please be aware of this, and prepare to not expect the surgical experience to go in a particular way. You may have been super brave the weeks before surgery, but when you go under and start feeling the effects of the anesthesia, you may freak out. Hey, you may not. I did a little and I wasn't expecting to.

That's just the surgical experience. Post operation, you will feel super tired and dizzy and you will be taking medication of antibiotics and perhaps painkillers. So you're body is going to go through a lot internally. Externally, things swell up in different areas and you may bruise (different colours on different days lol) Just be prepared and stay strong!

For me, I have no regrets - even during that slightly traumatising surgical experience - I realise that that is just how my body reacted to it. I will certainly NOT be thinking of having surgery again that's for sure lol, but I felt I needed to warn and let everyone know and be prepared yourself if you are going to have surgery The post op now is what I call the easy part. I actually don't mind seeing my face swelling and bruising up coz I know for sure that it'll go down and I just gotta keep icing it, walk as much as I can, catch up with other people and watch lots of tv in the hotel

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Glad to know you're coping well after surgery. Continue to take lots of walk and meet people and have fun! That'll definitely take your mind off the swelling and time seems to pass much faster as well. You're lucky, coz if i'm not wrong, u mentioned u can remove your stitches in 5 days?? I'm kind of scared of my upcoming surgery now... Especially after reading your post. Hope I won't freak out the last minute...

I'm wondering, can you wash your face and hair? Or did the doctor give you specific instructions not to until stitches are removed? I totally can't live without washing myself for a day! It'll be so yucky...

 

[shouislove]

beautyobsessed said: ↑

I just read your post. You said that you recomend him, but you were not satisfied on your nose. Little bit confuse, sorry hehe
But from your post, it can see that you n gingercandy were happy with the result. And i hope you guys happy, because doing revision will be harder than the first time. Maybe it's too early to judge. Are you still have some swelling?

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sorry if i got you confused. as i said in the post from today, since the swelling has decreased, im not so satisfied because of the lack of height on my bridge
so yes, while i was still swollen, it looked nice. but now, not so much.

 

[angel906]

you have a fine and slim face u dont need to do your face
i heard that if you do something about your bones cheekbones
or jaw
you will get pain from it when your older
like reuma or something what old people has
where they have hurt them self

 

[missemma]

Hi, new here!
I want to go to korea in december for double eyelid surgery but I don't really know what clinic to go to. Deciding on JW, Grand, ID, or Banobagi. Has anyone got double eyelids from one of these clinics? and tell me if you were satisfied? How much did you pay? recommendations would be awesome!

 

[dan4me]

angel82 said: ↑

I don't know how did u do it dan. I just had my zygoma, mini v and tipplasty done last night. And I'm in massive pain, I can't breath through my nose I can't drink the porridge, I can only slowly swallow down some soy drinks.. Were u the same like me?

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Did they put you on scheduled pain medicine at all ? I was pretty well controlled with my pain, but everyone's pain threshold is different....poor thing
but yes, I know the pain of not able to breathe through my nose. ugh
I will cross my fingers for you !!!

 

[babymode]

London_chick said: ↑

Hey Elisabeth, I'm in Seoul now and flew in from London and didn't need a visa. I don't think you need one, depending where you are flying from but as long as you don't stay for longer than 3 months you should be ok. But just google it to make sure as I don't know where you are flying from.

Regarding the translator... don't know Korean either. I booked at 3 consultations but only went to two - BK and OZ as BK kept me waiting for ages and I got to JW too late. One of the things I didn't realise about Seoul and the plastic surgery area is that it is MASSIVE. Not just the buildings but also the roads and traffic etc. I also underestimated the distance between the clinics - I thought they were fairly close but for the ones I chose (out of approx 400 ps clinics!) I had to get a cab, and with all the traffic etc, it was just rush rush rush!

The other problem I'm finding is the communication. I've travelled quite a bit and usually I find it easy to get around on my own and communicating. But here, hardly anyone speaks or understands English. Having an English translator would have been great, coz for example the "English staff" at BK did a not-so-great job in translating Dr Hong's Korean into English - and I mean, that's the most important part of the consultation - what the surgeon is saying?! I was like, how come he's talking for a good 10 seconds, and this translator gives me only a few words afterwards for the translation?

I know there was one girl called Zoe who people in this forum were using as she is an English translator. I didn't use her, as I did all the emailing back and forth to clinics myself, which you can do too. But had I known how lost one could feel in Seoul, having someone here as an English translator as well a friend before, during and after surgery (as my surgical experience wasn't all that great).

I've met up with a few peeps here who've done their surgery as well as another girl called Nicole who is an English translator for a ps clinic n Seoul. I had to cancel my appointment at the clinic she works at coz the surgeon decided to have his day off on the day I was having all my consultations, but Nicole, who I had been emailing back and forth when I had first contacted the clinic a few months ago said we could meet up as friends, since we had been communicating for quite a while and so I thought yeah why not, it'll be good to hang out with someone who speaks English. The reason I haven't mentioned the clinic’s name is coz she just told me yesterday afternoon when we were having lunch that she was going to leave this clinic (its putting too much stress on her) and move to work at a smaller clinic, but only part time. The other part time job she's been thinking about working as an English translator, as well as a friend and company for foreigners who are undergoing surgery and need someone to help them when they arrive to Seoul, so whether its booking clinic times, hotels, picking up and the main thing of course the translation. Man, if I had known this I would have asked her to help me before I had booked all my appointments, as I she would have spread them out a bit more and at least I’d have a proper translation of what the surgeon says.

I’ve met up with Nicole twice in the last 3 days and seeing her tonight to get our nails done &#9786; She is such a sweet girl and very caring, and I said that I would help her in passing her email address to this site since I’ve been on this site the last few months. Funny though, I never thought about getting an English translator and didn’t even bother thinking about it. But now that I’m here, I can see how it would make a big difference, and that there needs to be more people like Zoe and Nicole!

Since I am seeing her tonight I’ll tell her that I’ve mentioned her name to you and of course anyone else who is interested in contacting her. I don’t know how much she will charge as she is just starting to do this, but I know she’s very professional. Not only is her English really good but she’s very caring to your needs and she knows about the whole surgery experience as she’s currently taking care of several other English speaking patients and she knows how there is a shortage of English speaking translators and helpers in this plastic surgery field. I haven’t mentioned the clinic she is currently working for out of respect because she is going to leave this month, but I’m sure she will tell you personally when you are in touch with her.

She’s definitely not in it for the money, simply for the care and help. Look at me, there was no reason for her to want to meet up with me since I didn’t even go to the clinic for my consultation, so she’s only meeting up with me coz she wants to hang out and she knows how boring it is post op. She’s originally from China but has lived in Germany, her English is very good and so is her Korean. As I friend I told her I would help her (she's done so much for me anyway, without asking for anything from day dot). If you’re interested I can give you her email address later, as I can tell her today when we meet up that I can pass her email to forumers who are interested in contacting her personally.

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Hi babe,

Do you mind pm-ing me Nicole's contact?

Going to seoul in dec =]

 

[binnies]

minniemintmint said: ↑

The clinic I went to call " channel clinic", I didn't do anything, except nose lol, but plan to reduce my super duper droopy cheek hahaha, and want a bit face contouring

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First time i heard channel clinic :O Do you have the website that i can have a peek on it?!
Cooool keep us updated on your results if u going for facial contouring in future!

 

[binnies]

shouislove said: ↑

sorry if i got you confused. as i said in the post from today, since the swelling has decreased, im not so satisfied because of the lack of height on my bridge
so yes, while i was still swollen, it looked nice. but now, not so much.

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Hi Shouis

How about your fat graft? after the swelling decrease does it look great still? Able to share photos?

 

[minniemintmint]

sesamekiss said: ↑

Did it take u long to get to the clinic?

Im going in Feb next year so wont be able to meet!

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Not that long, I went there by subway . Actually, there is one korean guy, who help me as english translator, bring me there as he asked me to choose between car, which really comfortable, or subway, which more adventure lol, So I went there by subway lol