Seoul clinic areas for foreign visitors
Most clinics that treat foreign patients are in a handful of Seoul districts. Choose the area by what you are having done: Myeongdong for short skin treatments between shopping, Gangnam for the widest choice, Cheongdam for quieter skin and lifting clinics, and Sinsa or Apgujeong for plastic surgery.
- Getting treatment in Seoul: what it costs and where to goAlmost all medical tourism in Korea happens in three Seoul districts: Gangnam, Apgujeong and Cheongdam.
- Gangnam clinics: what the district is actually like, and how to chooseGangnam holds the largest concentration of aesthetic clinics in Korea — several hundred within walking distance of Gangnam and Sinnonhyeon stations.
- Myeongdong Skin Clinics for Foreigners: How to ChooseMyeongdong is Seoul’s main shopping district, and its skin clinics are built around visitors: short treatments, walk-in friendly hours and staff who speak Japanese, Chinese or English.
- Cheongdam Skin Clinics: A Guide for Foreign VisitorsCheongdam is the quieter, more expensive end of Gangnam-gu: smaller clinics, fewer patients a day, and more lifting and skin-quality work than the busy strip around Gangnam Station.
- Sinsa and Apgujeong Clinics: A Guide for ForeignersSinsa and Apgujeong sit side by side north of Gangnam Station and hold many of Seoul’s plastic surgery clinics as well as skin and injectable clinics.