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

[7chanel7]

okyoyo said: ↑

I want to go end of July/beg August. I've read a lot on this forum and others but am not any closer to making a decision as to which clinic. Can someone add me to the August travel kakao talk list? my id okyoyo.

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Okyoyo, my Kakao ID is Chanel7

 

[7chanel7]

Go2Kr said: ↑

Hi there,
I came to Seoul on July 3rd and consulted with Chungdam U, Dream and Regen. Had my surgery on Saturday at Regen. I am swollen, and can not really see the results, but I also have nothing to complaint about.
All the three clinics I went to were great! The staff were all super sweet, accommodating and friendly. Surgeons were nice and patience. I felt that I was treated well at all of the three clinics. The reason I chose Regen is that I want a bigger clinic and Regen is definitely the biggest of the three I went to. Honestly I have a long list of clinics that I wanted to visit, but the whole consultation process is very time consuming and I soon lost my interest. Just decided to go for it.
I want to thank everyone here for your support, especially people who have replied to my PM, posted suggestions and add me on Kakao. I am alone and I can not imagine going through this without all these help.
I speak both English and Chinese, and Dr Lee at Chungdam U speaks English, Dr Park at Dream also speaks English. Apart from this, these three clinics also have Chinese translators. Especially at Regen, there are quite a few Chinese translators. Two of them were with me the entire afternoon doing tests and running around. Very nice girls. The translator were also with me inside during my eye surgery, which was great! One of them also came to visit me on Sunday at the hospital even though it was her day off. How wonderful! She also brought me medication etc.
I did my surgery on Saturday morning. Facial contouring, eyes and nose, all at the same time. Stayed in the hospital for three nights in total, because I was not sure that I could handle it. The two more nights of course I paid. It's 200,000 won per night and totally worth it. If I have known about this in advance, I will probably not book hotel and stay at the hospital for one week. You have your own room with everything and have nurses taken care of you anything you ring the bell. You get checked professional, fed and taken care of. For those who are going alone, I highly recommend you thinking about this.
The first couple of days were tough, I can not open my eyes fully without feeling a little irritating and my eyes got all tearing up. That was terrible. And my nose keep having a little tiny bit of these liquid coming out. My mouth were swollen and could not close fully, meaning my saliva also came out. OMG. Oh and my tongue really really hurts. Like burning. At the beginning I thought it was too dry because of open mouth breathing, then I realized that it was actually swollen. The doctors told me that was because during my surgery they put some sort of tubes under there and it took a while to compete all my surgeries, that is why.
After three nights though, I feel manageable at least. Called my landlady, who btw has also been extremely helpful. I found her apartment on Airbnb. She picked me up from the hospital and took me home. Went out to buy food for me etc. Basically I just tell her what I need and she will brought back immediately. So I have been eating very well and in good hands.
I can tell that I'm getting better and better. Still swollen, but I'm feeling my energy getting back.
I can't really tell my results, but the doctors and nurses all said my surgeries were successful. And really at this point, I have nothing to complain about.
I need to go to Regen everyday to get the injection which prevent infection. I was also given pills, but I guess this is good. I prefer to go there and get checked, even it is very basic. Better to be safe. I have not been out shopping and walking etc. I just want to be safe. I walk in the hallway of my apartment inside. And I took taxi to Regen which is only 5000 won. My landlady went with me yesterday.
Thanks very much for everything. I might not check my inbox often, because I don't really feel it is very comfortable to look at the screen all the time, but when I have time, I will try to answer your questions. Honestly, I don't really know a lot. I was lazy and did not do lots of homework before I came to Korea. Also it is very different reading than actually meeting the doctors. I just feel that people here in Seoul are all very nice and friendly, and you just need to trust your heart. That's it.
Oh and about doing all the surgeries at the same time. I just don't want to come to Korea anymore. Never again, so I decided to get everything done. Originally I was only thinking about Vline. Of course, if you changed the shape of your face, your nose will need to fit your new face and eyes could also be a little bigger. Things like that. I don't regret doing all these at the same time, because I know for sure that I will not be able to go through this one more time. Mentally I am so not prepared and I so don't think the trouble, discomfort and torturing is worth it. LOL. Really. As long as you don't look super ugly, please think twice.
Also almost all the three clinics I went to suggested the same procedures for me, so I don't have to think and compare much.
What else, the price. From high to low, Regen>Chungdam U>Dream
That's all. I just don't want to forgot mention anything. Well hope this helps.
And for these who are currently in Seoul, please PM your Kakao. I should be able to go out very soon and I really want to meet up. I will stay in Seoul probably till the 27th.
Good luck everyone!

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Hi I'm new here and I read your entire post and I am very interested in your post results if you don't mind. All of this is frustrating as it is and even more so confusing the more posts I read. LOL

 

[kimjoo]

ibenlim said: ↑

Hi Kimjoo,

How are you? How's your results coming along? I'm finally going to Korea this Aug I have shortlisted a few places to go for consultation. At one point, was so sure about Faceline then I was very firm on Regen... now after seeing idhospital, I am unsure. hahaha.

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Hi ibenlim!

My results are great! I'm still a little upset about my nose, but I will take care of that later in the future. Other than that I am so happy!

I'm glad you're finally going to Korea! It's best not to be "so sure" about a clinic because you may be disappointed. Make sure to consult lots of places! Like I said in previous posts, I had my surgery at Grand, but I don't recommend going there because my surgeon does not work there anymore (he opened his own clinic).

I wish you the best of luck! If you want to see before/after photos, pm me your kakao username.

 

[chaneladdicted2]

Hi all, so after the butchering day I'm now still alive and fully capable of writing some reviews of the entire clinics I have been to. My main purpose of this Seoul 2nd visit is for the nose revision in JW and facial contouring. Luckily, on the arrival day JW provided limousine pick-up service, even though the flight was late for an hour but when I got to the airport the pick-up man was still there waiting for me.

After that I ran directly to High Land hotel, left the luggage and to Regen consultation. Note that I'm staying with turningpoint. She came to Seoul 1 day before me.

Ok, here comes the consultation part:

Regen: they have their own big building, fancy lobby, and quite a good-looking clinic, many Korean customers around. I was waiting for around 10 mins then there was a translator lady calls Chang-mi brought me to the X-ray scanning room. The good thing was I didn't have to pay for the examination fees. After X-ray scanning I got to meet dr. Oh Myung June (one of the three chief surgeon in Regen), he speak pretty good English. First he said if I want to achieve a perfect balance face then two-jaw surgery would be the most suitable one. But I refused since it's too expensive and invasive surgery for me. Then he mentioned the second option would be v-line surgery to give a baby face and fix the asymmetrical on my face somehow. He explained very carefully what he would do and the disadvantages. V-line could cause sagging problem so there might be a chance I have to come back one year later to have the laser treatment, plus in case if there is any infection from the screw (which rarely happened) then I have to come back also a year later to take it out since the bone is already heal them self. He showed me some of his patient who went under V-line and they were all look a lot better comparing to the before picture. Well, he seems to be an honest guy and I was pretty comfortable with him.
Price: 1 million KRW for V-line if pay with card, 9 million KRW if pay in case.

Face-line: a pretty small clinic close by JW, looks old to me (like 90s style) and there was a few Korean waiting for the turn for consultation before me, it was at 18:00. I came there with a Korean friend to help me to translate since they don’t have an English speaker there. Examination fees were 10.000 KRW. My friend said it seem like they have three main doctor there and they are known for “making” baby face types. I met with the doctor, he is around in his mid 40s but unfortunately I didn’t remember his name since everything was in Korean. He also thought I need a two jaw surgery to achieved the baby face but I refused. The he suggested mini V-line. Since I will be doing sliding Genioplasty to push the chin forward therefore there will be no sagging problem, unlikely those who want to advance the chine smaller.
Price: 8,5 million KRW for a mini V-line!?! No way, this is too expensive for me plus I don’t want to go for facial bone contouring in such a small clinic. So this is out of my list.

Dream: medium size clinic close to JW as well. The decoration is so white that totally remind me about the hospital. There was around 7 Korean waiting in the lobby. Examination fees: 50.000 KRW. A bit expensive but I have a friend (cherrykiss) who did her two-jaw surgery in Dream and quite satisfy with the result therefore I paid anyway. Then I met dr. Kim Young Joon. He just got out of the surgery room therefore I still could feel the rubber gloves smell on his hand. He seems to be a very confident doctor and I liked him too but not as much as the doctor in Regen. He suggested V-line for me.
On the other hand, the consultation girl was a pain in the *** when I told her I’m going to give them my decision after visiting ID hospital. Then she said with her bad English accent: “ID no good, Dream is-za better”… She wasn’t so friendly either.
Price: 10 million KRW for V-line, doesn’t matter paying in cash or card. No bargain!

ID hospital: this clinic was out of my list long time ago since I read itsumobaby and Iann reviews about their horror stories with ID. But I decided to give it a chance since I have a friend who is working in ID then she assured me there is no way that such thing as switching to junior doctor in the operation room, they don’t even have any junior doctor in the clinic anyway. Well, well, ok give it a chance I decided!

Big clinic, nice decoration and sleek. The crow is mixed with Korean and Chinese. I met a Korean lady who had a Rhinoplasty in ID and she was looking pretty angry and told me she didn’t like the result. But I think her nose look fine to me though.

The examination fees were 25.000KRW. Then I met with Euna, an English speaker consultation girl in ID. She speaks perfect English. We waited for pretty long (nearly an hour) to see dr. Park Sang Hoon. Heard that he is a super busy man. Then he came in the room with a smile and reading my file, asking how I am doing, blah blah blah… Wow, he is so friendly, speak very good English, totally different from my imagination in the review of these horror stories. He suggested a mini V-line for me. But I asked if I should opt for the V-line instead. He replied it depend on where I am come from if people would mind about the wide face but in general he thinks mini V-line is enough for me. Then he explained in detail what he is going to do and confirmed that infection from the screws should be very minimal. In case, that does happened I could go back to their clinic after 6 months to take them out without any charge. In the end I even asked: “Will you be the only one who do my surgery from A to Z?” then he replied “Of course, I will do everything for you!”.
Price: 6 million KRW won for mini V-line but since I have a friend working in ID, through her I will be able to get 20% discount.

I was so torn between Regen and ID hospital, I like them both doctors. But my friend who work in ID, Nicole and turningpoint didn’t think I need a V-line. Therefore my final decision is to do the mini V-line in ID hospital with dr. Park. Then I went to take the blood test and CT-scan again.

My friend told me, in most of the clinic in Korea there would be two doctors doing the surgery. The main doctor doing the operation and the other doctor just doing the stitching as the last step. Don’t know if it is really true working that way but I feel safe with ID anyway.

 

[reinrain]

ChanelAddicted2 said: ↑

Hi all, so after the butchering day I'm now still alive and fully capable of writing some reviews of the entire clinics I have been to. My main purpose of this Seoul 2nd visit is for the nose revision in JW and facial contouring. Luckily, on the arrival day JW provided limousine pick-up service, even though the flight was late for an hour but when I got to the airport the pick-up man was still there waiting for me.

After that I ran directly to High Land hotel, left the luggage and to Regen consultation. Note that I'm staying with turningpoint. She came to Seoul 1 day before me.

Ok, here comes the consultation part:

Regen: they have their own big building, fancy lobby, and quite a good-looking clinic, many Korean customers around. I was waiting for around 10 mins then there was a translator lady calls Chang-mi brought me to the X-ray scanning room. The good thing was I didn't have to pay for the examination fees. After X-ray scanning I got to meet dr. Oh Myung June (one of the three chief surgeon in Regen), he speak pretty good English. First he said if I want to achieve a perfect balance face then two-jaw surgery would be the most suitable one. But I refused since it's too expensive and invasive surgery for me. Then he mentioned the second option would be v-line surgery to give a baby face and fix the asymmetrical on my face somehow. He explained very carefully what he would do and the disadvantages. V-line could cause sagging problem so there might be a chance I have to come back one year later to have the laser treatment, plus in case if there is any infection from the screw (which rarely happened) then I have to come back also a year later to take it out since the bone is already heal them self. He showed me some of his patient who went under V-line and they were all look a lot better comparing to the before picture. Well, he seems to be an honest guy and I was pretty comfortable with him.
Price: 1 million KRW for V-line if pay with card, 9 million KRW if pay in case.

Face-line: a pretty small clinic close by JW, looks old to me (like 90s style) and there was a few Korean waiting for the turn for consultation before me, it was at 18:00. I came there with a Korean friend to help me to translate since they don’t have an English speaker there. Examination fees were 10.000 KRW. My friend said it seem like they have three main doctor there and they are known for “making” baby face types. I met with the doctor, he is around in his mid 40s but unfortunately I didn’t remember his name since everything was in Korean. He also thought I need a two jaw surgery to achieved the baby face but I refused. The he suggested mini V-line. Since I will be doing sliding Genioplasty to push the chin forward therefore there will be no sagging problem, unlikely those who want to advance the chine smaller.
Price: 8,5 million KRW for a mini V-line!?! No way, this is too expensive for me plus I don’t want to go for facial bone contouring in such a small clinic. So this is out of my list.

Dream: medium size clinic close to JW as well. The decoration is so white that totally remind me about the hospital. There was around 7 Korean waiting in the lobby. Examination fees: 50.000 KRW. A bit expensive but I have a friend (cherrykiss) who did her two-jaw surgery in Dream and quite satisfy with the result therefore I paid anyway. Then I met dr. Kim Young Joon. He just got out of the surgery room therefore I still could feel the rubber gloves smell on his hand. He seems to be a very confident doctor and I liked him too but not as much as the doctor in Regen. He suggested V-line for me.
On the other hand, the consultation girl was a pain in the *** when I told her I’m going to give them my decision after visiting ID hospital. Then she said with her bad English accent: “ID no good, Dream is-za better”… She wasn’t so friendly either.
Price: 10 million KRW for V-line, doesn’t matter paying in cash or card. No bargain!

ID hospital: this clinic was out of my list long time ago since I read itsumobaby and Iann reviews about their horror stories with ID. But I decided to give it a chance since I have a friend who is working in ID then she assured me there is no way that such thing as switching to junior doctor in the operation room, they don’t even have any junior doctor in the clinic anyway. Well, well, ok give it a chance I decided!

Big clinic, nice decoration and sleek. The crow is mixed with Korean and Chinese. I met a Korean lady who had a Rhinoplasty in ID and she was looking pretty angry and told me she didn’t like the result. But I think her nose look fine to me though.

The examination fees were 25.000KRW. Then I met with Euna, an English speaker consultation girl in ID. She speaks perfect English. We waited for pretty long (nearly an hour) to see dr. Park Sang Hoon. Heard that he is a super busy man. Then he came in the room with a smile and reading my file, asking how I am doing, blah blah blah… Wow, he is so friendly, speak very good English, totally different from my imagination in the review of these horror stories. He suggested a mini V-line for me. But I asked if I should opt for the V-line instead. He replied it depend on where I am come from if people would mind about the wide face but in general he thinks mini V-line is enough for me. Then he explained in detail what he is going to do and confirmed that infection from the screws should be very minimal. In case, that does happened I could go back to their clinic after 6 months to take them out without any charge. In the end I even asked: “Will you be the only one who do my surgery from A to Z?” then he replied “Of course, I will do everything for you!”.
Price: 6 million KRW won for mini V-line but since I have a friend working in ID, through her I will be able to get 20% discount.

I was so torn between Regen and ID hospital, I like them both doctors. But my friend who work in ID, Nicole and turningpoint didn’t think I need a V-line. Therefore my final decision is to do the mini V-line in ID hospital with dr. Park. Then I went to take the blood test and CT-scan again.

My friend told me, in most of the clinic in Korea there would be two doctors doing the surgery. The main doctor doing the operation and the other doctor just doing the stitching as the last step. Don’t know if it is really true working that way but I feel safe with ID anyway.

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hi there... thanks for the input... but i was just wondering for regen u mentioned "Price: 1 million KRW for V-line if pay with card, 9 million KRW if pay in case."

1m for v-line? really? it has to be typo error right? LOL!

all the best for recovery!

 

[Guest]

Hey guys,

I'm caucasian (English isn't my native language) and after months of deliberation and after I've read all the posts on this topic... I'm finally heading to Korea mid-august, I'm planing to visit only 2 clinics : Regen and Banobagi. Anyone's here mid-late-august (20th-21st) ? I wanted to ask my Korean friend to come with me but I'm scared of her reaction...
I'd like to have mini-vline and accusculpt around my neck area maybe nose tip revision.

I'd like to thank everyone who shared his experience on the forum, it really helped me !

 

[chaneladdicted2]

ReinRain said: ↑

hi there... thanks for the input... but i was just wondering for regen u mentioned "Price: 1 million KRW for V-line if pay with card, 9 million KRW if pay in case."

1m for v-line? really? it has to be typo error right? LOL!

all the best for recovery!

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Hey, it supposed to be 10 million KRW for V-line if pay with card. Type error, sorry!

 

[Guest]

tephteph said: ↑

Only 2 clinics? You may be disappointed.. Maybe more clinics will be better..

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I wanted to visit ID and Dream clinic too but as I've read bad experiences about it so I finally gave up.
I've heard good reviews about Banobagi and Regen concerning face contouring which is my main concern that's why I've choose only these too. ^_^ I've also heard VIP is good for rhino but I'm still not sure about doing my tip nose plasty.

 

[chaneladdicted2]

Before the surgery day I caught a cold and rested in the room the whole day. Luckily I didn’t have any fever.
On the surgery day: I came early at 8:30 in the morning. Paid, changed to hospital clothes, went to the room to wait for dr. Park. I even brought ”Absolut Vodka” for him as a present. Haha… Hopefully, he wasn’t drunk before my surgery, just kidding!
He came in the room, design my face, told me once again what he is going to do. Then they brought me to the huge machine to clean up bacteria on my bodies, then to the general aesthesia room. What a nightmare having that huge needle trying to go under my vein for 3 times. Ouch…that was ****ty hurt!
After the GA went into my body I just totally knocked out!
The next thing I know is a nurse trying to wake me up at around 12:30. That was the worst feeling ever in my life after waking from the GA. Frozen, shaking like a rat, super week, so sleepy, dizzy. Thought I have been dying and being born again… I know already now that after this experience I will never go under GA ever again in my life.
They got me on the wheelchair and drag me to the resting room. I was so tired and my friend came in said I would be discharged at 15:00. No way!!! I’m weak that I couldn’t even talk. So they let me stay in the hospital for the night. The first 5 hours was the worst ever since I have to keep my self being awaked while being so sleepy from the GA. I was indeed scarred. There was a guy in the next door also having facial bone contouring walking around in the hallway to avoid sleepiness, funny I thought, like a mummy with full of bandages on his face. I thought I could have done the same thing after 2 hours but I was too weak though.
Then turningpoint and ecofriendly came in to visit me. They were a bit surprised seeing me lying on the bed being weak, swollen like have been in a car accident. What a torture! I think my Rhinoplasty and eye surgery were nothing comparing to this.
After 6 hours I’m allowed to drink, and the nurse came in to check me up every hour. Have to admit that they are pretty professional and gentle. What a relived that I’m in good hand!
The next day (this morning) I was being discharged from the hospital. Paid around 60,000 KRW for the medicine since it’s not included in the price. The nurse explained clearly and slowly how to post-care my self and using medicines. Then they brought me to the X-ray room to scan again so that doctor can take a look at it. After that dr. Park and dr. Lee Taesung came into my room to check. Dr. Park asked how I was and answering some of my questions then rushing to the other patient next door. Dr. Lee checked the wound in my mouth and said everything looks fine then wished me a speedy recovering then went away.
After that, I got a facial treatment, the nurse came in cleaned my face and gave me a mask. They sent me a limousine back to the hotel together with a package of pumpkin juice.
My next appointment will be on Thursday and my deary friend managed to book an unlimited limousine pick up for my whole trip to and from the hospital. So I will have a free pick-up all the time. That was so sweet of her.
Anyway, for those who are not super ugly (big and angle face) I wouldn’t suggest to go for this kind of invasive bone surgery. But for those who really need it and want it then ID hospital in my experience would be one of a good place to go for. Will keep you guys update for the result!

 

[sarahgreenbean]

tephteph said: ↑

U might wanna try dream.. But speak to the doctor.. The consultant was just trashy.. Lol.. The docs r skillful.. So dream is def a good catch.. But i read so much posts n chats.. I'm basically so confused to who is good and bad lol..

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teph... and august group peeps...please add me back kakao ID is sarahgreen.... i messed up on switching to a new phone

 

[okyoyo]

moonspiral said: ↑

I've been trying to look through out threads but alot of it appears to be outdated, especially regarding password and logins for naver websites etc.

What are hospitals they appear to do the most dramatic results but have a good reputation? I'm not looking for subtle results, I have a huge chin and jaw

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@moonspiral are you willing to go for double jaw surgery? That is by far the most dramatic way. From what I can tell, ID does a lot of those, but my personal opinion is that they reduce it too much. Also check out wonjin - the photos are amazing, haven't heard as much about them though.

 

[mooiiewink]

Logicalillusion said: ↑

Hi guys! I got my eyes done on Monday, and the swelling is going down every day. I did ptosis and double-eyelid surgery. My eye muscles were so weak that I was using my forehead to open my eyes wide - if you do this, you will get wrinkles faster on your forehead. I have dents above my eyebrows because I used so much of my forehead muscles. I will be writing a private blog on my experience, and I will be posting daily pictures of my eyes so you guys could see the difference in swelling. I will NOT be saying what center I went to because I don't want to be accused of sponsoring that plastic surgery center. If anyone wants the link/password to the blog that I will start writing soon, PM me! Also, I will be in Seoul from August 4-20, so if anyone wants to hang out, pm me! I'm in a different city right now, but I hope to meet some of you soon!

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Hi
I am interested in getting my ptosis eyes done. Can you give me link/password to the blog?
[email protected]

 

[Guest]

sarahgreenbean said: ↑

teph... and august group peeps...please add me back kakao ID is sarahgreen.... i messed up on switching to a new phone

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teph thank you for your recommendation ! I'll try to visit Dream.

sarah, can I join the august group too ? I searched your ID on Kakaotalk but I haven't found you ...

 

[karagiselle]

planc said: ↑

I've done my surgery a week and a half ago and will be leaving on the 28th. However, I will post my results if you're interested.

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Hi please post your results we're more than interested. Thanks! Hopefully all is well

 

[3rdtimerhino]

I've made appointments with Teuim, Shimmian and Item. Will report back after my initial consultations!