Best Plastic Surgery Clinics in Korea -read 1st post before posting.

[msnovember]

Hi everyone,

I've been a silent reader and these forums have been a wealth of knowledge. I am booked for Korea next mont 2/18-3/7 for revisional eyelid and tip plasty.

Anybody going around the same time? My Korean friend will be going w me to help me with translations.

My top 3 for revision choices are:

Teuim
Banobagi
IOU

I know those are good for eyelid but does anyone know if any they have a good doctor for nose too? If so which doc?

We are also consulting at (my friend is doing 1st time eyelid):

Grand
Dream
Migo

Can anybody recommend a good doctor for eyes/nose at any of these places? Thank you! Much appreciated!!

 

[onlyif]

Your review is really quite encouraging as I wanted to go with view. Still I'll see other clinics and experience myself how theirs before deciding.

Anyway you said you bargained down everything to 12 million. Everything means your rhino, vline, and eye??

Please do keep us updated! Would love to know more of your surgery with them! ALL THE BEST OK! Believe it will turn out good!

shockingpinkz said: ↑

I went with Zoe to 3 clinics: VIEW, Regen, and Wonjin. I ended up choosing VIEW for my v-line, lateral cantoplasty+eye lowering, and rhino.

VIEW:
I really loved the atmosphere in there. The consultant was really sweet. I showed them all the pictures of what I wanted and didn't want and Ms. Kim wrote down everything next to the picture. Meet up with Dr. Choi and I felt really comfortable with him. Didn't have enough time to wait for Dr. Lee to come back from surgeries because we were on a schedule so the consultant said that Dr. Lee will be waiting for me to talk with him when I come back (and if we come later than 7 closing time to just give them a call so they will wait for us). I really love the customer appreciation here! Prices before bargaining:

Chin, Mandible, zyogma- 5 million each. 12 million if you get everything together.
rhino (silicone implant and tiplasty)- 2.5 million
lateral cantoplasty- 1 million
eye lowering- 1 million won

Wonjin:
I don't reccomend Wonjin at all.
Wonjin was packed to the brim with locals waiting (It was a weekday too!)--think about it if I had to come back for a medical emergency, they would make me wait too! There was so many people waiting for consultation that they even hired a magician to entertain guests. Zoe and I couldn't believe it. We ended up waiting about a good hour even though we made an appointment.
Meet up with the consultant and said I couldn't meet with the doctor unless I paid for an x-ray exam which was 100,000 won! WHAT A RIP OFF! I just asked her the price. She seemed like she didn't care if she had our business or not since there were so many customers waiting already. She just gave us the price and quicky left us in the room to get out. Price:
V-line: 13,000,000 won
Rhino (tiplasty, alar reduction, silicone implant)- 4.5 million won
lateral: 1.5 million won

Regen:
Not as packed as Wonjin. The consultants and people working there weren't exactly pretty but that shouldn't be the reason why you don't choose a clinic. After going to Wonjin I had a bad feeling about big clinics already, but wanted to give Regen a shot.
Waited for about 2-3 hours and we couldn't even see the nose doctor because he was operating on paitients. Only met with the facial contouring doctor. He spoke great english but I was immediately turned off once he showed me examples of his before and after patients. He also snapped at me when I asked questions like "how long until I will be able to eat soild foods." and said: "CAN YOU ASK ME SOME REAL QUESTIONS!? THESE ARE QUESTIONS YOU ASK YOUR CONSULTANT. NOT ME." Wow. Geez, attitude much!? Even though I did not see the nose doctor I was already turned off and just asked the consulant the price:
V-line: 9 million won
Rhino (just tiplasty and alar reduction): 4.5 million won
lateral cantoplasty: 1 million won

Met with Dr. Lee later and then just ended up choosing VIEW. The price was bargained down to 12 million won.

Personally, if I had a chance to choose 3 clinics to go see again for consultation day I would have checked out all the small clinics because there is more of a personal appreciation to the surgeries and there won't be a chance that they will switch you over to some junior doctor during operation time when you are knocked out. There is also a shorter wait time so if you need to come in for a medical emergency they will be able to help you ASAP unlike larger clinics. So yeah, check out Mairir's research of the locals on naver with their results and do your own research as well. Don't just choose clinics off from this fourm because sometimes it is pretty obvious that they are just people being paid by the company (*cough* BK *cough*). If I could choose three clinics to visit again I would choose: VIEW, Girin (http://www. girin life. com/ --delete the spaces. Girin is in the same building as view. I am kind of bummed I didn't check them out), and JW plastic Surgery.

Hope it helps!

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[onlyif]

Hey SeoulforReal,

Wow, you are a gift to us all here!

SeoulforReal said: ↑

Transportation

If there are five passengers then taking a cab from the airport might be better and would cost you about 50,000 to 60,000 KRW about $55-$65 USD. Cabs are usually midsize sedans - Kia Optimas or Hyundai Sonatas. So if you think your luggage and all of you can fit, it should be OK. There are mini-van taxis too, but will cost a little more.

Seoul Tours (Private)
http://www.cosmojin.com/ (I used this one for my parents and thought the price and service was the most reasonable)

For tour services you can charter a private driver, and tour guide who can either build a custom tour package and shuttle you around or you can choose premade tour package. This might cost you about $200 to $300 per day some charge up to $900 to $1,000. Google Seoul Private Tours. Of course you can always find some random dude who will do it a lot cheaper, but he's a freelancer and a little risky.

Seoul Tours (Public)
http://en.seoulcitybus.com

This is a government operated tour bus with 2 different courses. You basically buy a day pass that ranges between 10,000-15,000 krw per person depends on time and route. And it goes to all the major points of interest and you basically hop on and off the bus as you please. It has an audio tour with headphones, but audio kinda sucks. When you buy a ticket you get a discount book for other attractions. Like a discount off seoul tower admission fee etc...

Getting Around in General (Bus Cabs, Subways)

Buy a T-Money Card (Subway station or any convenience store and charge it with cash). This is an electronic travel card you can use in Busses and Subways. 10,000 won per person should be fine for 2 days worth of travel.

Cabs - Taxi fares are pretty cheap in Seoul. You can go from one side of the city to the far opposite in a 30 to 40 minute journey and still pay only 10,000 to 15,000 won. Don't take black color taxis they are considered luxury cabs and cost more (any other color is fine)

FYI - This is how you know a taxi is available if it says this:
http://www.sotongsinmun.com/data/cheditor/1002/_copy10.jpg

If it's not lit up, is flashing a phone number or says something else, it means its reserved (although sometimes drivers forget, so still wave at the cab anyway)

Subway - Reliable and easy to figure out and cheap, but you spend more time underground

Bus- Difficult if you can't speak or read Korean.

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[onlyif]

I'm going in on the same day as you, but I'm visiting different clinics from yours. Prob can message each other if you feel bored. LOLZ!

MsNovember said: ↑

Hi everyone,

I've been a silent reader and these forums have been a wealth of knowledge. I am booked for Korea next mont 2/18-3/7 for revisional eyelid and tip plasty.

Anybody going around the same time? My Korean friend will be going w me to help me with translations.

My top 3 for revision choices are:

Teuim
Banobagi
IOU

I know those are good for eyelid but does anyone know if any they have a good doctor for nose too? If so which doc?

We are also consulting at (my friend is doing 1st time eyelid):

Grand
Dream
Migo

Can anybody recommend a good doctor for eyes/nose at any of these places? Thank you! Much appreciated!!

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[gaga101]

Can anyone share JW's experience with me?I'm planning to do my nose there. hoping for a more drastic change, not subtle change. is JW a good choice?

 

[bkzabii]

Hi for those of you looking to book a translator, i've recently messaged N regarding translating service she now charges 150 to take you to three clinics and 30 dollar for any additional extra. hope this helps!

 

[green-hood]

Bkzabii said:

Hi for those of you looking to book a translator, i've recently messaged N regarding translating service she now charges 150 to take you to three clinics and 30 dollar for any additional extra. hope this helps!

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Hey there ,

Can I get her email or something ?? I might need a translator when I go there ;D

 

[cherryzz]

MsNovember said: ↑

Hi everyone,

I've been a silent reader and these forums have been a wealth of knowledge. I am booked for Korea next mont 2/18-3/7 for revisional eyelid and tip plasty.

Anybody going around the same time? My Korean friend will be going w me to help me with translations.

My top 3 for revision choices are:

Teuim
Banobagi
IOU

I know those are good for eyelid but does anyone know if any they have a good doctor for nose too? If so which doc?

We are also consulting at (my friend is doing 1st time eyelid):

Grand
Dream
Migo

Can anybody recommend a good doctor for eyes/nose at any of these places? Thank you! Much appreciated!!

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based on my research,

IOU
teiumps
eyemagic
misonline
bandoeye
ASPS

(above)are famous for eye revision.
hope it helps =)

 

[crystallinesnow]

cherryzz said: ↑

based on my research,

IOU
teiumps
eyemagic
misonline
bandoeye
ASPS

(above)are famous for eye revision.
hope it helps =)

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I think Teuim seem really skilled. Theifcat did hers there and her eyes look really nice! And you can't even see any redness from the EPI

If you're not skimping on costs, then I recommend people go there. If I were doing my eyes, I'd save extra money and head there myself.

 

[seoulforreal]

Moona said: ↑

Hi SeoulforReal, is the cab run by meter? Or they will just quote you the price before u board?

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Cabs are run by meters. A normal cab starts at 2,400 KRW a luxury black cab starts at 4,000 KRW and the meter goes by distance and time.

 

[green-hood]

Hi,


Is there anyone who's going to Seoul in early May?? Please let me know so that we can buddy up for consultation and fun !!

 

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Alisa H said: ↑

SeoulForReal

Firstly,when you name yourself something like "SeoulForReal", do you seriously think by calling yourself "for real" people will believe that you aren't maybe flaky? I could call myself names like "Seoul even more for real" or something could I not?

Hence, if I wanted to lie, or market, I would just go write it that I did the rhinoplasty, not my sister.

You are right at one point. I am an absolutely extreme person at this point, because I've seen just how terrible a bad rhinoplasty can do to a person. You want more information? Sure. But understand that I was writing a blog, not writing a marketing piece, hence I was new at this. If not, I would have included prices on the first writeup.

If you really want names of the Taiwan clinic, I am willing to tell you. It is this clinic called dr shine. I'm infuriated so I'm writing a blog. Just like I was infuriated after spending money at a clinic and hearing your own sister wail and scream when her nose was inflamed. Rhinoplasty isn't like having a paper cut. You wait days for the swelling to subside, and weeks for the color to go off and months for a shape to appear.

You know what happened to us in between? Besides spending money at that cursed clinic? And getting ignored by them when things went wrong? They said they would not be returning us the money but we could have other services at their clinic. Listen, the cost of rhinoplasty at that clinic was about 1K USD, it wasn't much at all and recommended by a friend who vouched for it. Later he said, he didn't know they sucked.

We had a lot of BS people who tripped us just like that.

In the interim, who went online and stumbled across forums like these and researched for information? I did. Because my sister was too distraught with herself for sitting there for 14 months in pain. This clinic gave her nose fillers after they saw that her nose became a little upturned. Imagine that, a rhinoplasty and 2 months later, fillers.
I wasn't as informed as you guys, so I just accompanied her and let it happen. Later every single doctor we saw said her nose had too much stuff inside. Ie. both her ear cartilages were used. And a sillicon implant and fillers with thread.

This nose never went down in size after swelling subsided in like 6 months. Why six months? Here's the reason. When you go to a good doctor, the swelling would be less. A not so great doctor= massive swelling. Now imagine, not so good plus complication after too much material and fillers= very big disaster.

We went to Seoul after I saw information online. We saw a few doctors who were nice and friendly. One of them was Dr Park from Oz. He spoke excellent English and told us revision rhinoplasty was not advisable even though my sis is more than a year since her nose job in Taiwan. He said the nose looked red and fragile even after 1 whole year. He advised us to live with it for now. Even after revision, it wouldn't be much different.

Then we went to Item and Dr Kim saw us. To be honest, I liked how nice and pretty Item was. Dr Kim said my sister's nose was severe once again, but he actually expressed some hope at treating it. He said to come back in another year. When her nose became less fragile.

Then we went to Bao surgery, because we saw it along the same building as Oz.

Finally when we were about to leave Korea, I saw some things on Shimmian. I was hesitant after reading the negative review from that lady you said was on the extreme negative. But I went to Dr Jung's website and saw pictures of damaged noses, noses that were inflated, or crooked and swerved to one side. I felt that there was a chance we could make good our trip in Korea.

When we went to Shimmian we really expected nothing. But in actual fact Dr Jung assured us that he could do the job. I was really grateful. Sometimes when you watch a person suffer it feels a lot worse than you suffering on your own. Sometimes when you watch your own sister tell you she wants to kill herself because all the ugliness and disappointment plus consecutive needles are going into her even for fillers ; you just watch helplessly.

I am writing the Shimmian review because I'm really thankful that there was a remedy after going to several doctors. Hey who knows, maybe some other doctor could have helped if not Dr Jung but we are really only at day 17 now, everyday we are waiting for results.

Here's what happened during the operation and in regards to the review of that lady who set up a blog just to attack Shimmian.

We were told at least 5 times i advance that my sister would be using the rib for her nose. The rib surgery wasn't something that I was experienced with after seeing my sister with only implants and ear cartilages inserted into her nose. But Shimmian did tell us clearly.

When the surgery was done, my sister complained that she was in severe pain the first night whenever she breathed too hard or she coughed.

When you cough, I believe is is due to the blood and the phlegm stuck at the underside of your throat after rhinoplasty. It hurt her at the ribs because she had this band wrapped around. I was going to blog more in detail at the future blogs but understand that I was writing for the first time. So maybe I should have taken more tips from you before writing, since my blog lacked content. Hence it wasn't as "well written" as you claimed.

Now back to the motivations behind writing this blog. When you have gone through so much and so many doctors and seen so many disappointments, you will be geared to "DO SOMETHING" either because you don't want other people to end up as clueless as you did or you want to chart the recovery progress or you are simply grateful to the guys that actually helped you and you feel sorry that they had a review as extreme as the negative one. In fact I saw that review just as you mentioned. The search engine popped those words up when I googled. Initially I wrote my blog at toughtoughcookie blogspot.tw because I felt we went through a lot, hence we became "tough".

Later I changed the address because I just thought if another person who went through a bad experience could find a good revision doctor, maybe it would be better to make the search easier when you google.

I'm not somebody Shimmian paid to do this. I'm an angry sister.

Oh yes, price. Because it was a revision this did not come cheap at any of the clinics that quoted us. My sister had the fillers in her nose and a revision once in Tw, both of which didn't work, because they were from the same place. Hence at item plastic surgery we were quoted based on the number of times operations had been done. It was about 8K USD.

Oz didn't quote but ask us to come back nx time. Neither did any other doctors.

Shimmian charged us 11K USD in total.

It has been a long arduous and expensive progress but I hope it turns out ok.

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Alisa,
I am Taiwanese too. What you went through was terrible. Is it possible to sue the bad doctor?

 

[seoulforreal]

Alisa H said: ↑

SeoulForReal

Firstly,when you name yourself something like "SeoulForReal", do you seriously think by calling yourself "for real" people will believe that you aren't maybe flaky? I could call myself names like "Seoul even more for real" or something could I not?

Hence, if I wanted to lie, or market, I would just go write it that I did the rhinoplasty, not my sister.

You are right at one point. I am an absolutely extreme person at this point, because I've seen just how terrible a bad rhinoplasty can do to a person. You want more information? Sure. But understand that I was writing a blog, not writing a marketing piece, hence I was new at this. If not, I would have included prices on the first writeup.

If you really want names of the Taiwan clinic, I am willing to tell you. It is this clinic called dr shine. I'm infuriated so I'm writing a blog. Just like I was infuriated after spending money at a clinic and hearing your own sister wail and scream when her nose was inflamed. Rhinoplasty isn't like having a paper cut. You wait days for the swelling to subside, and weeks for the color to go off and months for a shape to appear.

You know what happened to us in between? Besides spending money at that cursed clinic? And getting ignored by them when things went wrong? They said they would not be returning us the money but we could have other services at their clinic. Listen, the cost of rhinoplasty at that clinic was about 1K USD, it wasn't much at all and recommended by a friend who vouched for it. Later he said, he didn't know they sucked.

We had a lot of BS people who tripped us just like that.

In the interim, who went online and stumbled across forums like these and researched for information? I did. Because my sister was too distraught with herself for sitting there for 14 months in pain. This clinic gave her nose fillers after they saw that her nose became a little upturned. Imagine that, a rhinoplasty and 2 months later, fillers.
I wasn't as informed as you guys, so I just accompanied her and let it happen. Later every single doctor we saw said her nose had too much stuff inside. Ie. both her ear cartilages were used. And a sillicon implant and fillers with thread.

This nose never went down in size after swelling subsided in like 6 months. Why six months? Here's the reason. When you go to a good doctor, the swelling would be less. A not so great doctor= massive swelling. Now imagine, not so good plus complication after too much material and fillers= very big disaster.

We went to Seoul after I saw information online. We saw a few doctors who were nice and friendly. One of them was Dr Park from Oz. He spoke excellent English and told us revision rhinoplasty was not advisable even though my sis is more than a year since her nose job in Taiwan. He said the nose looked red and fragile even after 1 whole year. He advised us to live with it for now. Even after revision, it wouldn't be much different.

Then we went to Item and Dr Kim saw us. To be honest, I liked how nice and pretty Item was. Dr Kim said my sister's nose was severe once again, but he actually expressed some hope at treating it. He said to come back in another year. When her nose became less fragile.

Then we went to Bao surgery, because we saw it along the same building as Oz.

Finally when we were about to leave Korea, I saw some things on Shimmian. I was hesitant after reading the negative review from that lady you said was on the extreme negative. But I went to Dr Jung's website and saw pictures of damaged noses, noses that were inflated, or crooked and swerved to one side. I felt that there was a chance we could make good our trip in Korea.

When we went to Shimmian we really expected nothing. But in actual fact Dr Jung assured us that he could do the job. I was really grateful. Sometimes when you watch a person suffer it feels a lot worse than you suffering on your own. Sometimes when you watch your own sister tell you she wants to kill herself because all the ugliness and disappointment plus consecutive needles are going into her even for fillers ; you just watch helplessly.

I am writing the Shimmian review because I'm really thankful that there was a remedy after going to several doctors. Hey who knows, maybe some other doctor could have helped if not Dr Jung but we are really only at day 17 now, everyday we are waiting for results.

Here's what happened during the operation and in regards to the review of that lady who set up a blog just to attack Shimmian.

We were told at least 5 times i advance that my sister would be using the rib for her nose. The rib surgery wasn't something that I was experienced with after seeing my sister with only implants and ear cartilages inserted into her nose. But Shimmian did tell us clearly.

When the surgery was done, my sister complained that she was in severe pain the first night whenever she breathed too hard or she coughed.

When you cough, I believe is is due to the blood and the phlegm stuck at the underside of your throat after rhinoplasty. It hurt her at the ribs because she had this band wrapped around. I was going to blog more in detail at the future blogs but understand that I was writing for the first time. So maybe I should have taken more tips from you before writing, since my blog lacked content. Hence it wasn't as "well written" as you claimed.

Now back to the motivations behind writing this blog. When you have gone through so much and so many doctors and seen so many disappointments, you will be geared to "DO SOMETHING" either because you don't want other people to end up as clueless as you did or you want to chart the recovery progress or you are simply grateful to the guys that actually helped you and you feel sorry that they had a review as extreme as the negative one. In fact I saw that review just as you mentioned. The search engine popped those words up when I googled. Initially I wrote my blog at toughtoughcookie blogspot.tw because I felt we went through a lot, hence we became "tough".

Later I changed the address because I just thought if another person who went through a bad experience could find a good revision doctor, maybe it would be better to make the search easier when you google.

I'm not somebody Shimmian paid to do this. I'm an angry sister.

Oh yes, price. Because it was a revision this did not come cheap at any of the clinics that quoted us. My sister had the fillers in her nose and a revision once in Tw, both of which didn't work, because they were from the same place. Hence at item plastic surgery we were quoted based on the number of times operations had been done. It was about 8K USD.

Oz didn't quote but ask us to come back nx time. Neither did any other doctors.

Shimmian charged us 11K USD in total.

It has been a long arduous and expensive progress but I hope it turns out ok.

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Thank you Alisa. No ones bashing you here, just asking questions. If your original blog post's tone and manner sounded just like this forum reply to begin with it, I'm sure it wouldn't have raised any red flags. Now that you cleared things up, it's OK - Thanks

If you go back to the earlier threads, you can see that there have been some issues in the past of someone getting everyone's hopes up with a glowing review of Item Clinic, and later she turned out to be a promoter. But you're a new poster, so you probably came in with genuine intentions.

Hope your sister's recovery goes well.

I called myself SeoulforReal to play off of the 90's R&B group Soul for Real, and I live in Seoul, for real....

 

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Thiefcat said: ↑

Please refer to page 143 (post no 2144)

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Thank you!

 

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KangEst said: ↑

Hey Bibble! Just remember if youve already had double eye lid surgery before you need revisional double eye lid surgery (especially if you did full incision method). Revisional double eye lid surgery will require more skill than doing it the first time. (I believe thiefcat eyes were first time not revisional). Just keep that in mind when consulting with doctors. You want to make sure they have experience with revisional eyelid surgery!

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Yes, I did have it once. People say it looks natural but I really hate the natural creases I already had. I thought the doctor was supposed to take them out and make one smooth crease. But it seems like he was lazy and just made a slit and sewed it up to create a crease. I am definitely going to check out the doctor she went to. Her eyes look amazing! Thank you for the info, I will make sure to let them know it's a revisional eyelid surgery^^