Safety and regulation
Ghost surgery in Korea and the operating room CCTV law
What ghost surgery is, what Korea's operating room camera law has required since September 2023, and how a foreign patient can ask for a recording.
How to tell a specialist clinic from its sign in Korea
Korean rules decide which clinics may put 'plastic surgery' in their name. Here is how to read a signboard, what the half-size rule is, and where it fails.
If surgery in Korea goes wrong: dispute options for foreign patients
How Korea's medical dispute mediation agency works for foreign patients, what its own figures show, and what to put in writing before surgery to protect yourself.