How we calculate prices

67.9% of the price records we hold cover several procedures performed in one session. A ₩3,000,000 package covering eyes, nose and fat grafting tells you nothing about what the nose alone costs, and splitting it out ourselves would produce a number with no source behind it. Every price on this site is therefore computed from single-procedure cases only. Bundled cases are dropped whole rather than apportioned.

What we publish is the median — the middle case once every case is sorted by price — and not the mean. Cosmetic pricing has a long upper tail: a handful of revision surgeries or premium-clinic cases will drag a mean well above what most people actually pay. The median only moves when the middle of the market moves, and that is the number you want when you are setting a budget.

If a procedure has fewer than five qualifying single-procedure cases, no median is shown for it at all. Where a median is shown, the case count sits next to it, together with the low and high ends of the range so you can see how wide the spread is. A price published without its sample size is a price you have no way of checking.

Prices are shown in Korean won as actually charged, with Korean VAT included. The VAT refund that foreign patients could claim on cosmetic procedures ended in January 2026, so the amount on the page is the amount you pay — do not budget on the assumption that part of it comes back. The converted amount in your own currency sits beside the won figure as an approximation and carries the date of the exchange rate used; the clinic bills in won.

Korean clinics run limited-time event pricing constantly. Those amounts are stored in a field of their own and are never mixed into the median. An event price is a marketing decision valid for a short window; a median is meant to describe what the procedure ordinarily costs. Where both appear, budget against the median and read the event price as the offer that happened to be running when the record was captured.