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Yeungnam University Medical Center

KR Daegu, South Korea · multi-specialty

66/100 A Grade

Trust Index 59 · Fair

World's Best Hospitals 2026 — South Korea #17 in South
How this score is built
Accreditation 30% 52
Clinical outcomes 25% 55
Reputation 20% 62
Transparency 10% 73
Track record 10% 65
Reviews 5% 62

75% of the score is objective and verifiable; the same public formula applies to every clinic.

#17 in South — World's Best Hospitals 2026 — South Korea from $62 3.7★

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Sourced facts

Yeungnam University Medical Center (영남대학교병원) is a private university hospital in Nam-gu, Daegu, opened in 1983 as the teaching hospital of Yeungnam University's College of Medicine. Designated a tertiary general hospital (상급종합병원) by Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare since 2011 — currently in the 2024-2026 5th-cycle designation — it runs about 1,002 beds across 38 clinical departments and 12 specialized centers, including a regional emergency medical center and cerebrovascular/cardiac, cancer, respiratory and organ-transplant centers.

Verified against: Yeungnam University Medical Center — official site (homepage; Newsweek 2026 badge, centers) · YUMC — 병원소개 (Hospital Introduction: history, ownership, facilities) · YUMC — 미션 및 비전 (Mission & Vision; business registration, affiliation) · YUMC — 위치/전화번호 (Location/address) · Korean Wikipedia — 영남대학교병원 · 대구역사문화대전 (Daegu Grand Culture Encyclopedia) — 영남대학교병원 (beds, floor area, departments, history) · Ministry of Health and Welfare — 제5기('24~'26년) 상급종합병원 47개소 지정 (press release) · Newsweek World's Best Hospitals 2026 — South Korea · google.com

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Patient rating
3.7/5
77 Google reviews
Trust Index
59/100
Fair
Data confidence
45%
Partial · 25% verified
Founded
1983
43 yrs
Published prices
4
from $62
Specialties
3
departments

Medical Travel Cost Hospital Index

MHI · Method 1.3 Methodology →

One comparable score per hospital — each metric below is measured against the registry and weighted by the same public formula. Unsourced metrics are excluded, never guessed.

66
A
Newsweek World's Best #17 in South Korea

100% of the formula backed by data

  • Trust Index 59 Our index 59/100 · vs 137 same-country hospitals · 2th percentile
  • Profile completeness 45 Our index 45% · share of our profile verified vs modeled — informational, not scored
  • Quality & reputation 67 ✓ Verified #17 in country (Newsweek/US-News) · 3.7★ Google · objective outcomes ≫ independent ranking ≫ patient reviews · 90th percentile
  • Accreditation 63 ✓ Verified 1 independent · current JCI ≫ independent bodies (Magnet/CAP/DNV) ≫ historical/on-record
  • Price transparency 40 Imported 4 published · separate pricing axis — informational, not scored in the quality grade
  • Scale 88 ✓ Verified 1,002 beds · vs 84 sourced hospitals in the registry · 76th percentile

The composite is the weight-normalized mean of available metrics. The same method applies to every hospital in the registry. Machine-readable version below for models & crawlers.

Prices by field

Imported — unverified

The hospital's published procedure prices, grouped by field — open any row to see what's in the price. Room rates and packages are listed separately below.

Orthopedics 2 prices
Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) ₩92,900–₩135,100 · from $62 Directory data unverified
What's in the price · all-in ≈ $62 Full page →
  • Surgeon & operating room$11
  • Anesthesia$5
  • Hospital stay (5 nights)$28
  • Implants & materials$14
  • Post-op & follow-up$4

Hospital stay ≈ $119/night · 5 nights

Included

  • Surgeon, anesthesia & OR fees
  • 5 nights' hospital stay
  • Standard implants & materials
  • Nursing, meals & standard follow-up

Budget on top

  • + Flights & airport transfer
  • + Hotel before/after admission
  • + Visa & travel insurance
  • + Take-home medications
  • + Physiotherapy / rehab
  • + Extended stay if complications arise
Manual Therapy ₩114,010–₩114,010 · from $76 Directory data unverified
What's in the price · all-in ≈ $76 Full page →
  • Surgeon & operating room$14
  • Anesthesia$6
  • Hospital stay (5 nights)$34
  • Implants & materials$17
  • Post-op & follow-up$5

Hospital stay ≈ $119/night · 5 nights

Included

  • Surgeon, anesthesia & OR fees
  • 5 nights' hospital stay
  • Standard implants & materials
  • Nursing, meals & standard follow-up

Budget on top

  • + Flights & airport transfer
  • + Hotel before/after admission
  • + Visa & travel insurance
  • + Take-home medications
  • + Physiotherapy / rehab
  • + Extended stay if complications arise
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) ₩700,900–₩700,900 · from $470 Directory data unverified
What's in the price · all-in ≈ $470 Full page →
  • Surgeon & operating room$115
  • Anesthesia$29
  • Hospital stay (5 nights)$211
  • Implants & materials$72
  • Post-op & follow-up$43

Hospital stay ≈ $119/night · 5 nights

Included

  • Surgeon, anesthesia & OR fees
  • 5 nights' hospital stay
  • Standard implants & materials
  • Nursing, meals & standard follow-up

Budget on top

  • + Flights & airport transfer
  • + Hotel before/after admission
  • + Visa & travel insurance
  • + Take-home medications
  • + Physiotherapy / rehab
  • + Extended stay if complications arise
Dental 1 price
Dental Implants ₩742,600–₩983,400 · from $498 Directory data unverified
What's in the price · all-in ≈ $498 Full page →
  • Surgeon & operating room$96
  • Anesthesia$19
  • Hospital stay (5 nights)$224
  • Implants & materials$127
  • Post-op & follow-up$32

Hospital stay ≈ $119/night · 5 nights

Included

  • Surgeon, anesthesia & OR fees
  • 5 nights' hospital stay
  • Standard implants & materials
  • Nursing, meals & standard follow-up

Budget on top

  • + Flights & airport transfer
  • + Hotel before/after admission
  • + Visa & travel insurance
  • + Take-home medications
  • + Physiotherapy / rehab
  • + Extended stay if complications arise

Prices are the hospital's published ranges (unverified imports are labelled). The line-item split inside each row is modeled from typical cost structures for this preview — the total is the published price and the hospital-stay line uses the real room rate where known. Actual quotes vary by case & surgeon.

Location & getting here

Verified 2026-07-14

Address, neighbourhood, and how long transit and airports take.

170 Hyeonchung-ro, Nam-gu, Daegu 42415, South Korea (대구광역시 남구 현충로 170, 대명동)

Nam-gu (Daemyeong-dong), Daegu · Daegu, South Korea

Getting here

  • Yeungnam University Hospital 0.5 km · ~5 min (≈, OSM)
  • National University of Education 0.6 km · ~7 min (≈, OSM)
  • Daegu International Airport (TAE) 9 km · ~13 min (≈, OSM)

Patient reviews

✓ Google · verified

Google's published rating, put in context against how hospitals actually score.

3.7 / 5

77 Google reviews

Exceptional for a hospital

Top 10%

better than ~90% of hospitals

A hospital's stars run far lower than shops or restaurants — reviews are written amid illness, big bills and stress, and unhappy patients review the most. The average hospital scores just 2.85★ on Google, so This hospital's 3.7★ sits near the top of the range.

Typical hospital2.85★
This hospital3.7★
worst hospital 1.4★best 4.6★

Rating is Google's, shown as reported (77 reviews). The "top %" is an estimate from peer-reviewed hospital-rating studies (Canadian nationwide 2018–19, n=167, mean 2.85★; US hospitals, median 3.0★) — we score against the hospital distribution, not the naive 0–5 scale.

Patients rate Yeungnam University Medical Center 3.7★ across 77 Google reviews — exceptional for a hospital, better than roughly 90% of hospitals on our worldwide rating benchmark.

Doctors, nurses & expertise

Sourced

The hospital's published headcount and capacity.

Beds
1,002
sourced

From the hospital's published figures. Nurse counts and training ratios will appear once sourced.

Accreditations

Independently verifiable

Only independent, checkable accreditations and rankings — published by the accrediting bodies themselves. Self-reported trade awards are deliberately omitted.

상급종합병원 (Tertiary General Hospital) designation

Ministry of Health and Welfare, South Korea (보건복지부)

First designated 2011; currently one of 47 hospitals nationwide holding the 5th-cycle tertiary-general-hospital designation, period 2024-01-01 to 2026-12-31 (Gyeongbuk region, alongside Chilgok Kyungpook National University Hospital). This is a government service-tier designation, not a KOIHA/JCI quality accreditation — KOIHA's own accreditation-status directory could not be queried from this environment (JS-driven region/name search), so no KOIHA or JCI badge is claimed.

World's Best Hospitals 2026 — South Korea

Newsweek / Statista

#17 in South Korea (score 75.63)

Independent signals

Sourced

Government quality-inspection grades, independent accreditation/certification, and insurer networks — matched from public registries, not submitted by the hospital.

Government quality grade

  • HIRA HIRA 적정성평가 — 급성심근경색증 (Acute Myocardial Infarction) care quality: 1등급 as of 2026 Source →
  • HIRA HIRA 적정성평가 — 마취 (Anesthesia care) quality: 2등급 as of 2026 Source →
  • HIRA HIRA 적정성평가 — 환자경험평가 (Inpatient Experience Survey) domain scores: 간호사영역:89.38; 의사영역:84.97; 투약 및 치료과정:86.91; 병원환경:85.31; 환자권리보장:84.43; 전반적 평가:88.24 as of 2026 Source →

Ownership & governance

Sourced

Who owns it and how long it's operated — from public records.

Corporate

Ownership
Private · university hospital of the Yeungnam University Educational Foundation — teaching hospital of Yeungnam University College of Medicine, operated as Yeungnam University Medical Center
Established
1983 · 43 yrs

From public corporate records. Complaint rates and ethics signals will appear once independently sourced.

Conditions treated here

This hospital

Yeungnam University Medical Center treats 56 conditions across 3 fields. What it covers — tap a field for this hospital's own prices.

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) · Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) · Basal cell carcinoma · Bladder Cancer · Brain tumor · Breast cancer · Cervical cancer · Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) · Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) · Colon cancer · Cutaneous lymphoma · Endometrial cancer · Esophageal cancer · Gastric cancer · Head and Neck Cancer · Hepatocellular carcinoma · Hodgkin Lymphoma · Kidney Cancer (Renal Cell Carcinoma) · Leukemia · Lung cancer · Lymphoma · Melanoma · Multiple myeloma · Oral cancer · Ovarian cancer · Pancreatic cancer · Prostate cancer · Rectal Cancer · Soft Tissue Sarcoma · Squamous cell carcinoma · Testicular cancer · Thyroid Cancer

Achilles Tendinitis · ACL Injury (Torn Knee Ligament) · Bunion (Hallux Valgus) · Carpal tunnel syndrome · Frozen Shoulder (Adhesive Capsulitis) · Gout · Osteoarthritis · Osteoporosis · Plantar Fasciitis · Rheumatoid arthritis · Sciatica · Scoliosis · Spinal cord injury · Spinal stenosis · Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ) · Tennis Elbow (Lateral Epicondylitis)

Bruxism (Teeth Grinding) · Cracked or Broken Tooth · Dental Abscess · Dental caries · Impacted Wisdom Teeth · Malocclusion (Crooked Teeth / Bad Bite) · Periodontitis (Gum Disease) · Tooth Loss (Missing Teeth)

A directory of fields this hospital covers — not a claim it treats every case. Suitability is confirmed with the specialist.

Specialists & departments

This hospital

3 specialties across 3 fields. Tap a field for this hospital's prices.

Doctor types, never named individuals.

Compare hospitals in South Korea

Our index

Side by side on what actually decides the choice — our grade, the Newsweek ranking, patient reviews, accreditation, and real verified prices. Best in each row marked ★.

Compared with 3 other South Korea hospitals here, Yeungnam University Medical Center carries a BBB grade (#17 in South — World's Best Hospitals 2026 — South Korea), ranks #4 of 4 on our merit score (63).

Metric This hospital Yeungnam University Medical Center Daegu Samsung Medical Center Seoul Asan Medical Center Seoul Severance Hospital (Yonsei University) Seoul
Hospital gradeNewsweek in-country rank where ranked, else our merit score BBB · 63 AAA · 93 AA · 91 AA · 87
Newsweek rankWorld's Best Hospitals #17 in country #1 in country #2 in country #3 in country
Patient ratingGoogle, sourced 3.7★ 3.9★ 4.0★ 3.8★
Accreditationindependent bodies JCI JCI JCI JCI
Published pricesverified, comparable 6 verified 7 verified 2 verified
From pricecheapest verified $94 $154 $409
Profile You're here Open profile Open profile Open profile

Six decision metrics on the same public formula — our grade, the Newsweek ranking, patient reviews, accreditation and real verified prices. "—" means not yet sourced, never guessed. Best in each row marked ★. All hospitals →

Common questions about Yeungnam University Medical Center

Straight answers from the data on this page — cost, accreditation, rating, and location.

How much does treatment at Yeungnam University Medical Center cost?

Yeungnam University Medical Center publishes prices for 4 procedures, starting from about $62. The exact cost depends on the procedure and your case — priced fields include orthopedics, cancer treatment (oncology), dental. Every price on this page links to its source and shows whether it is verified.

Is Yeungnam University Medical Center accredited?

Yes — Yeungnam University Medical Center holds 상급종합병원 (Tertiary General Hospital) designation. We list only independent, checkable accreditations published by the accrediting bodies themselves; self-reported trade or marketing awards are excluded.

How is Yeungnam University Medical Center rated?

Yeungnam University Medical Center has a 3.7-star Google rating from 77 reviews, and scores 66/100 (grade A) on our independent Trust Index, alongside its rank of #17 in South — World's Best Hospitals 2026 — South Korea. The Trust Index is one public formula applied to every hospital — the

What is Yeungnam University Medical Center known for?

Yeungnam University Medical Center (영남대학교병원) is a private university hospital in Nam-gu, Daegu, opened in 1983 as the teaching hospital of Yeungnam University's College of Medicine. Designated a tertiary general hospital (상급종합병원) by Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare since 2011 — currently in the 2024-2026 5th-cycle designation — it runs about 1,002 beds across 38 clinical departments and 12 specialized centers, including a regional emergency medical center and cerebrovascular/cardiac, cancer, respiratory and organ-transplant centers.

Where is Yeungnam University Medical Center?

Yeungnam University Medical Center is located at 170 Hyeonchung-ro, Nam-gu, Daegu 42415, South Korea (대구광역시 남구 현충로 170, 대명동), Nam-gu (Daemyeong-dong), Daegu, Daegu, South Korea.

Traveling to Daegu, South Korea

Sourced Full South Korea guide →

South Korea crossed the 1-million mark as a medical-travel destination for the first time in 2024: about 1.17 million foreign patients were treated, up 93.2% from 610,000 in 2023 (Ministry of Health and Welfare / KHIDI). The largest patient groups came from Japan, China, the United States, Thailand and Taiwan, and the most-used specialties were dermatology, plastic surgery, internal/general medicine and health screening. Seoul concentrates most volume, drawing patients for aesthetic and dermatologic care, health check-ups, oncology and advanced surgery delivered in JCI-accredited hospitals with dedicated international-patient centers — at prices below the US while the government regulates and publishes standards through KHIDI's Medical Korea program.

Visa
Most Western nationalities (US, UK, EU/Schengen, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan) enter visa-free for short medical or tourist visits. The K-ETA (electronic travel authorization) requirement is temporarily WAIVED for 67 countries and territories through 31 December 2026 — eligible travellers enter without applying for a K-ETA; the requirement is expected to resume 1 January 2027. Confirm your nationality's current rule before travelling.
Medical / long-stay visa
For treatment, foreign patients typically use the C-3-3 medical tourism visa (short-term, stays up to 90 days, generally not extendable beyond 90 days except in special circumstances). For treatment or recovery longer than 90 days, patients change to or apply for the G-1-10 long-term medical treatment visa, which can be extended inside Korea; it requires hospital documentation (medical opinion, treatment schedule, payment records). Applications must be tied to a medical institution registered with KTO/KHIDI.
Arrival
From 1 January 2026, all foreign arrivals must file the mandatory digital e-Arrival Card online (within 3 days before arrival) — it replaces the paper disembarkation card and is a declaration, not a visa. Travellers who hold an approved K-ETA are exempt from the arrival card, but nationals of K-ETA-waived countries (US, UK, EU, Japan, etc.) must still complete the e-Arrival Card.
Currency
South Korean Won (KRW, ₩)
Languages
Korean; English widely spoken in international-patient centers at major hospitals, with interpreter services in multiple languages
Safety & recourse
Very safe for visitors · Established malpractice recourse

General guidance — confirm current rules for your nationality with official sources. Verified against: Korea Immigration — K-ETA temporary exemption extended to 31 Dec 2026 (MOFA/KPMG GMS alert) · Korea e-Arrival Card mandatory from 1 Jan 2026 · Medical Korea — medical visa (C-3-3 / G-1-10), KHIDI · MOHW — Korea attracts 1.17 million foreign patients in 2024.

Data & sources

25% verified View verified only

How much of this profile is verified data — every section above carries a chip telling you where its numbers come from.

45%
data confidence · Partial
Verified facts25%
Profile filled88%
All 16 data fields — what's verified, imported or modeled Show more
  • Identity & location ✓ Verified
  • Accreditation Not yet collected
  • Published prices Imported
  • Languages Not yet collected
  • Patient reviews ✓ Verified
  • Staff & expertise Imported
  • Safety & complications Modeled
  • Accommodation & rooms Modeled
  • Facilities & access Imported
  • Insurance & payment Modeled
  • Inclusive & accessible care Modeled
  • Ownership & governance ✓ Verified
  • Volume & outcomes Modeled
  • International-patient mix Modeled
  • Surgical team depth Modeled
  • Specialties & clinical professions ✓ Verified

Every field is tagged by source state. "Verified" = sourced and checked; "Imported" = real data pending re-verification; "Modeled" = deterministic placeholder for this preview; "Not yet collected" = on our roadmap. Confidence feeds the Trust Index and the finder's verified-only filter. Methodology →

Reviews, staff, accreditations, awards, research and inclusive-care figures are aggregated or modeled from published signals for this preview; real registry, outcome and review data replace them before launch. How we model this →