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Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital

KR Seoul, South Korea · multi-specialty

72/100 A Grade

Trust Index 78 · Strong

World's Best Hospitals 2026 #60 in South
How this score is built
Accreditation 30% 84
Clinical outcomes 25% 86
Reputation 20% 62
Transparency 10% 88
Track record 10% 74
Reviews 5% 62

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

#60 in South — World's Best Hospitals 2026 from $22 3.7★ KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation)

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Sourced facts KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation) · Directory-verified via the Korea Consumer Agency registry (소비자24 / consumer.go.kr, sourced from 의료기관평가인증원/KOIHA): 의료기관명=한림대학교 한강성심병원, 의료기관종류=종합병원, 인증제종류=급성기 (acute-care type), 인증상태=인증 (Accredited), 인증일자(validity)=2026.01.08~2030.01.07, 교부번호(issue no.)=4-303, 대표전화번호=02-2639-5114 (matches), 병원소재지=서울특별시 영등포구 버드나루로7길 12 (exact address match to this campus). This is the 4th accreditation cycle — the hospital's own 연혁(history) page logs '2025-10-28~10-31 4주기 의료기관평가인증원 의료기관 인증조사 실시' (4th-cycle KOIHA survey conducted), and the registry's now-current validity window (2026.01.08~2030.01.07) picks up immediately where the prior 3rd cycle (2022.01.08~2026.01.07, referenced in the history log's '2022.01.08 제3주기 의료기관인증획득') expired — using the CURRENT live registry figure, not the superseded 3rd-cycle dates.

Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital (한림대학교한강성심병원) is a private, nonprofit university general hospital opened in December 1971 in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul — described on its own site as the founding/root hospital ('뿌리이자 모태') of what grew into the five-campus Hallym University Medical Center system. It is licensed for 147 beds across 23 clinical departments (per the current 2026-2030 KOIHA/소비자24 accreditation registry). Rather than a general-purpose full-service hospital, it operates as Korea's designated national burn referral center — the only university-hospital-status institution among the Ministry of Health and Welfare's certified burn-specialty hospitals — running a large-scale burn/reconstructive-surgery program (own-site figures differ by page: 2,700+ vs. ~2,200 cases/year, flagged as an unresolved discrepancy), the country's largest hyperbaric oxygen therapy center (36-person chamber system, 3 units, 10,000+ cumulative cases by Oct 2025), a wearable-robot burn rehabilitation program, and a burn research institute developing 3D-bioprinted artificial skin and stem-cell therapeutics. It has responded to multiple Korean mass-casualty burn disasters (a KAL aircraft crash, a military helicopter accident, a university lab explosion) and operates the charitable Hallym Burn Foundation (한림화상재단) for low-income burn-patient support. Its own non-covered (비급여) fee disclosure table shows no dental-implant, LASIK/cataract (it has no ophthalmology department), C-section/delivery, joint-replacement, or GI-endoscopy pricing — consistent with its identity as a specialized trauma/burn/reconstructive center rather than a general elective-surgery or medical-checkup destination; its disclosed non-covered items instead center on burn-adjacent care (autologous cultured skin grafts, laser scar revision, musculoskeletal ESWT, hyperbaric oxygen for non-covered indications, manual/physical therapy). It was ranked #1 nationally among 374 general hospitals in Korea's 2024 4th National Patient Experience Evaluation and was separately named a 2023 HIRA Medical Quality Assessment excellent institution.

Verified against: Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital — official site homepage · Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital — official site, 병원소개 (Hospital overview) · Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital — official site, 연혁 (History/timeline, incl. 2025-10-28~10-31 4th-cycle KOIHA survey and 2025-12-17 54th-anniversary entries) · Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital — official site, 찾아오시는 길 (Directions/address, incl. subway routes) · Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital — official site, 비급여진료비용 disclosure (행위 tab) · Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital — 화상센터 (Burn Center) subsite, 센터소개 · Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital — English site · kr_newsweek_135.json — internal Newsweek Korea ranked list entry (rank 60), confirming slug/chain/district · 소비자24 (Korea Consumer Agency) — 의료기관인증 search, '한강성심병원' (single match: 한림대학교 한강성심병원) · 소비자24 — 의료기관인증 registry detail entry, 한림대학교 한강성심병원 (crtfcSn=CRTF_000000003693960) · OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode — 한강성심병원 (named POI, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul) · rankings.newsweek.com · google.com

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Patient rating
3.7/5
38 Google reviews
Trust Index
78/100
Strong
Data confidence
51%
Partial · 31% verified
Founded
1971
55 yrs
Published prices
3
from $22
Specialties
2
departments

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72
A
Newsweek World's Best #60 in South Korea

100% of the formula backed by data

  • Trust Index 78 Our index 78/100 · vs 137 same-country hospitals · 100th percentile
  • Profile completeness 51 Our index 51% · share of our profile verified vs modeled — informational, not scored
  • Quality & reputation 67 ✓ Verified #60 in country (Newsweek/US-News) · 3.7★ Google · objective outcomes ≫ independent ranking ≫ patient reviews · 90th percentile
  • Accreditation 79 ✓ Verified 3 independent · current JCI ≫ independent bodies (Magnet/CAP/DNV) ≫ historical/on-record
  • Price transparency 30 Imported 3 published · separate pricing axis — informational, not scored in the quality grade
  • Scale 55 ✓ Verified 147 beds · vs 84 sourced hospitals in the registry · 10th 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) ₩33,000–₩300,000 · from $22 Directory data unverified
What's in the price · all-in ≈ $22 Full page →
  • Surgeon & operating room$4
  • Anesthesia$2
  • Hospital stay (5 nights)$10
  • Implants & materials$5
  • Post-op & follow-up$1

Hospital stay ≈ $148/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 ₩65,000–₩120,000 · from $44 Directory data unverified
What's in the price · all-in ≈ $44 Full page →
  • Surgeon & operating room$9
  • Anesthesia$3
  • Hospital stay (5 nights)$20
  • Implants & materials$9
  • Post-op & follow-up$3

Hospital stay ≈ $148/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
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy ₩40,000–₩240,000 · from $27 Directory data unverified
What's in the price · all-in ≈ $27 Full page →
  • Surgeon & operating room$7
  • Anesthesia$2
  • Hospital stay (5 nights)$12
  • Implants & materials$4
  • Post-op & follow-up$2

Hospital stay ≈ $148/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.

12 Beodeunaru-ro 7-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea (서울특별시 영등포구 버드나루로7길 12, 영등포동7가 94-200)

Yeongdeungpo-gu · Seoul, South Korea

Getting here

  • Yeongdeungpo Market 0.5 km · ~6 min (≈, OSM)
  • National Assembly 0.8 km · ~10 min (≈, OSM)

Patient reviews

✓ Google · verified

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

3.7 / 5

38 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 (38 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 Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital 3.7★ across 38 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
147
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.

KOIHA 의료기관인증 (의료기관평가인증원), acute-care (급성기) type, 4th cycle

Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation (KOIHA), delegated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare

Directory-verified (not just hospital-claimed) via 소비자24 (consumer.go.kr) official registry lookup, single matching record for '한강성심병원': 의료기관종류=종합병원, 교부번호=4-303, 인증일자=2026.01.08~2030.01.07, 개설진료과목(허가서 기준)=내과·소아청소년과·신경과·정신의학과·피부과·외과·흉부외과·정형외과·신경외과·성형외과·산부인과·비뇨기과·이비인후과·비뇨의학과·재활의학·가정의학·치과·응급의학과·마취통증의학과·영상의학과·진단검사의학과·병리과·직업환경의학과 (23 departments — notably no 안과/ophthalmology and no separate 화상외과 line item, though the hospital's own site names 화상외과/burn surgery as an operating clinical department), 허가병상수(licensed beds)=147, 병원소재지=서울특별시 영등포구 버드나루로7길 12 (exact address match).

JCI (Joint Commission International)

Not applicable

No JCI claim found anywhere on the hospital's own site (homepage, 병원소개, 연혁, 비급여진료비용 disclosure table, or the 화상센터/hallymburn burn-center subsite) — JCI is not mentioned. Not included as a claim, and not directory-checked, since there is nothing hospital-asserted to verify.

첨단재생의료실시기관 (Advanced Regenerative Medicine Institution) designation

Ministry of Health and Welfare (per 첨단재생의료 및 첨단바이오의약품 안전 및 지원에 관한 법률)

Hospital's own 연혁 (history) page logs '2023.04.12 첨단재생의료실시기관 지정' — a government designation permitting the hospital to conduct advanced regenerative-medicine treatments/trials, consistent with its 화상연구소 (Burn Research Institute) work on 3D-bioprinted artificial skin and stem-cell therapeutics. Own-site claim only; not independently directory-checked (no public MOHW registry search was available in this pass).

World's Best Hospitals 2026

Newsweek / Statista

#60 in South Korea (listed as "Hallym University - Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital")

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 — 환자경험평가 (Inpatient Experience Survey) domain scores: 간호사영역:96.12; 의사영역:95.25; 투약 및 치료과정:95.15; 병원환경:96.05; 환자권리보장:92.36; 전반적 평가:97.05 as of 2026 Source →

Specialty ranking

  • Newsweek Specialized #239 world — Pediatrics (2026) as of 2026 Source →
  • Newsweek Specialized #88 world — Asia Pacific (2026) as of 2026 Source →

Ownership & governance

Sourced

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

Corporate

Ownership
Private (nonprofit) · 한림대학교의료원 (Hallym University Medical Center) — one of five Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospitals (Anyang/평촌, Kangnam/강남, Hangang/한강, Chuncheon/춘천, Dongtan/동탄). Not to be confused with Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital (강동성심병원), which left the Hallym group in 2017, or with the unrelated Gyeyang-gu, Incheon 'Hallym Hospital' (한림병원, run by 인성의료재단).
Established
1971 · 55 yrs

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

Conditions treated here

This hospital

Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital treats 20 conditions across 2 fields. What it covers — tap a field for this hospital's own prices.

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)

Alopecia Areata · Female-Pattern Hair Loss · Male-Pattern Hair Loss (Androgenetic Alopecia) · Melasma

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

Specialists & departments

This hospital

2 specialties across 2 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, Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital carries a B grade (#60 in South — World's Best Hospitals 2026), ranks #4 of 4 on our merit score (69).

Metric This hospital Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital Seoul Samsung Medical Center Seoul Asan Medical Center Seoul Severance Hospital (Yonsei University) Seoul
Hospital gradeNewsweek in-country rank where ranked, else our merit score B · 69 AAA · 93 AA · 91 AA · 87
Newsweek rankWorld's Best Hospitals #60 in country #1 in country #2 in country #3 in country
Patient ratingGoogle, sourced 3.7★ 3.9★ 4.0★ 3.8★
Accreditationindependent bodies 3 independent 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 Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital

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

How much does treatment at Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital cost?

Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital publishes prices for 3 procedures, starting from about $22. The exact cost depends on the procedure and your case — priced fields include orthopedics, anti-aging & wellness. Every price on this page links to its source and shows whether it is verified.

Is Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital accredited?

Yes — Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital holds KOIHA 의료기관인증 (의료기관평가인증원), acute-care (급성기) type, 4th cycle, JCI (Joint Commission International), 첨단재생의료실시기관 (Advanced Regenerative Medicine Institution) designation. We list only independent, checkable accreditations published by the accrediting bodies themselves; self-reported trade or marketing awards are excluded.

How is Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital rated?

Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital has a 3.7-star Google rating from 38 reviews, and scores 72/100 (grade A) on our independent Trust Index, alongside its rank of #60 in South — World's Best Hospitals 2026. The Trust Index is one public formula applied to every hospital — the

What is Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital known for?

Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital (한림대학교한강성심병원) is a private, nonprofit university general hospital opened in December 1971 in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul — described on its own site as the founding/root hospital ('뿌리이자 모태') of what grew into the five-campus Hallym University Medical Center system. It is licensed for 147 beds across 23 clinical departments (per the current 2026-2030 KOIHA/소비자24 accreditation registry). Rather than a general-purpose full-service hospital, it operates as Korea's designated national burn referral center — the only university-hospital-status institution among the Ministry of Health and Welfare's certified burn-specialty hospitals — running a large-scale burn/reconstructive-surgery program (own-site figures differ by page: 2,700+ vs. ~2,200 cases/year, flagged as an unresolved discrepancy), the country's largest hyperbaric oxygen therapy center (36-person chamber system, 3 units, 10,000+ cumulative cases by Oct 2025), a wearable-robot burn rehabilitation program, and a burn research institute developing 3D-bioprinted artificial skin and stem-cell therapeutics. It has responded to multiple Korean mass-casualty burn disasters (a KAL aircraft crash, a military helicopter accident, a university lab explosion) and operates the charitable Hallym Burn Foundation (한림화상재단) for low-income burn-patient support. Its own non-covered (비급여) fee disclosure table shows no dental-implant, LASIK/cataract (it has no ophthalmology department), C-section/delivery, joint-replacement, or GI-endoscopy pricing — consistent with its identity as a specialized trauma/burn/reconstructive center rather than a general elective-surgery or medical-checkup destination; its disclosed non-covered items instead center on burn-adjacent care (autologous cultured skin grafts, laser scar revision, musculoskeletal ESWT, hyperbaric oxygen for non-covered indications, manual/physical therapy). It was ranked #1 nationally among 374 general hospitals in Korea's 2024 4th National Patient Experience Evaluation and was separately named a 2023 HIRA Medical Quality Assessment excellent institution.

Where is Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital?

Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital is located at 12 Beodeunaru-ro 7-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea (서울특별시 영등포구 버드나루로7길 12, 영등포동7가 94-200), Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea.

Traveling to Seoul, South Korea

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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

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51%
data confidence · Partial
Verified facts31%
Profile filled94%
All 16 data fields — what's verified, imported or modeled Show more
  • Identity & location ✓ Verified
  • Accreditation ✓ Verified
  • 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 →