Editorial policy

Visit Korea Medical is operated under formal editorial standards that aim, simultaneously, to give international visitors useful, honest coverage of the Korean medical-tourism market and to comply with Korean law on foreign-patient attraction. The standards below are the working rules our editorial board applies. They are reviewed quarterly. Where any specific page applies a different rule (for example, a sponsored-content page), the deviation is disclosed on that page. Comments on policy can be sent to [email protected] — we read everything but do not commit to a response window.

Sourcing and verification

All clinic-level entries on Visit Korea Medical must be matched against at least one primary public source: the Korean Medical Association registry; the manufacturer authorised-provider list for the relevant platform (Ultherapy, Sofwave, Thermage FLX, Genius RF, Secret RF); or the KHIDI foreign-patient-attraction registry. Clinics that cannot be matched are excluded. Pricing references are gathered from public clinic price lists and from facilitator-supplied data, refreshed quarterly. Treatment platform information is reviewed when manufacturers issue generation announcements, firmware updates, or new handpiece releases. Where a piece of information is uncertain, we say so on the page.

Comparative coverage and rankings

We do not publish numerical rankings. Headlines like "the #1 best clinic in Korea" are not used on this site, and ordinal labels (#1, #2, #3) do not appear in our copy or our schema. Where multiple clinics are compared on a single page, we use named editorial criteria — language support, platform availability, physician seniority, foreign-patient-attraction registration, location relative to the airport — rather than aggregate ranking. Where one of our specialised publisher archives carries a fuller side-by-side, we link to it.

Conflicts of interest and commercial disclosure

Some outbound links on Visit Korea Medical are commercial referrals; some are not. Editorial inclusion is independent of whether a commercial relationship exists. Where a commercial relationship exists, the relevant page carries a disclosure block. Outbound links to publisher-network archives carry the rel="sponsored noopener" attribute, in line with W3C and Google guidance for paid relationships. Editorial board members who hold a personal financial interest in any covered clinic recuse themselves from coverage decisions on that clinic. The recusal log is maintained internally and is available to KHIDI on request.

Compliance with Article 56 (4) and KHIDI registration

Visit Korea Medical operates as a registered foreign-patient-attraction facilitator under Article 56 (4) of the Korean Medical Service Act. Our KHIDI registration is A-2026-04-02-06873 and our business registration is 405-04-54000. We do not advertise specific licensed Korean physicians by name in headline form ("Dr X is the best in Seoul") and we do not publish patient testimonials with named outcomes. We publish platform-level, city-level, and clinic-level information consistent with the foreign-patient-attraction framework.

Corrections, takedowns, and right of reply

Errors of fact are corrected as soon as they are flagged. The correction is logged on the page, with the date the error was identified and the date corrected. Clinics that wish to update operational details — opening hours, language coverage, platform availability — can email [email protected] with primary-source documentation. Right-of-reply submissions on critical coverage are read and, where the underlying claim is in dispute, are added as a quoted response on the page rather than overwriting the original copy.

Frequently asked questions

Do you take payment for editorial coverage?

No. Editorial coverage decisions are made by our editorial board and are independent of commercial relationships. Some pages carry sponsored outbound links to our publisher-network archives, which is disclosed on each page.

How do I correct an error?

Email [email protected] with the URL of the page, the specific claim in dispute, and primary-source documentation. We log corrections on the page, with the date the error was identified and the date corrected.

Why do you not publish numerical clinic rankings?

Numerical rankings ("#1 best clinic") imply a precision the underlying evidence does not support, and they conflict with both the Korean medical-advertising framework and our own editorial standards. We use named criteria-based comparisons instead.

Where do your pricing figures come from?

Public clinic price lists, refreshed quarterly, supplemented by facilitator-supplied data. We do not invent figures. Where pricing is uncertain or in transition, we say so on the page rather than guess.

Are author bylines real?

Yes. Contributing editors are real people with profiles on the site and with bylines on our specialised publisher archives. We do not publish under invented author identities.