The local lens · South Korea
Medical prices in Cheonan, South Korea
Median entry price
≈ $737
from ≈ $28
Cost rank
#30 of 37
cheapest in South Korea
Avg hospital rating
3.3★
Google · across 3 hospitals
Avg reviews / hospital
80
Google · across 3 hospitals
Hospitals in the city
3 · 3 sourced
Procedures priced
5
A treatment day in Cheonan · the local basket
what a day here burns, besides the procedure
- Specialist consult
- —median · 0 priced
- Hotel night
- ≈ $90mid-range · est.
- Local transport
- ≈ $12per day · est.
Consult median is real registry data; hotel and transport are the same modeled estimates the all-in calculators use — labeled, never quotes.
How we collect & verify prices Country guide: South Korea →
In plain words · Cheonan is a priced care market in South Korea — 5 procedures, 0 consultation fees and 3 hospitals you can reach without changing city. The country-level guide (visa, safety, system) lives on the South Korea page.
The #35 hospital in South Korea · Newsweek World's Best
#35 Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital 3.6★
Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital is a private, university-affiliated tertiary (상급종합병원) teaching hospital in Dongnam-gu, Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, founded in 1982 (as Soonchunhyang Cheonan Hospital) and owned by the Dongeun Educational Foundation. It relocated into a newly built 15-storey, ~1,000-bed-capacity campus in May 2025 (currently operating ~495 beds across 10 wards), and runs a designated regional emergency medical center, a regional cardio-cerebrovascular disease center, and Korea's first nationally designated pediatric emergency medical center.
- Procedures priced
- 5
- in this city
- Median entry
- ≈ $737
- across procedures
- Healthcare grade
- AAA
- sourced · national
- MLI local market
- 41/100
- our data · not a grade
- Hospitals
- 3
- 3 sourced
Top hospitals in Cheonan, South Korea
Our indexNewsweek's national top 10 first, then our grade — 3 hospitals inside one city is negotiating power: comparable quotes without changing your hotel. Every row opens the hospital's full profile and prices. 3 fully sourced.
- 64 Grade
- 64 Grade
- 66 Grade
Where Cheonan ranks on cost in South Korea
Price axis · lower is cheaperHow cheap Cheonan is against the other cities we price in South Korea — our price data. Whether the care is good is a separate country-level rating, on the South Korea page.
How cheap · our prices · lower is cheaper · among South Korea cities
index 100 = median across the 37 South Korea cities we price · lower = cheaper. Cheonan's median entry ≈ $737 from 5 priced procedures — early data, and each city prices a different basket, so read it as a guide, not a verdict.
The other axis — is the care good? — is a country rating from external world indices, shown on the South Korea page.
What treatment costs in Cheonan
VerifiedThe cheapest published entries in this city — each links to its full city-level comparison with hospitals and sources.
| Procedure | From (local) | ≈ USD | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual Therapy Orthopedics | ₩41,500 | $28 | up to ₩45,000 |
| Comprehensive Health Screening Multi-specialty | ₩440,000 | $295 | up to ₩540,000 |
| Dental Implants Dental | ₩1,100,000 | $737 | up to ₩5,633,200 |
| LASIK Eye Surgery Eye Care (Ophthalmology) | ₩1,665,800 | $1,120 | up to ₩2,498,400 |
| LASEK Eye Surgery Eye Care (Ophthalmology) | ₩2,200,000 | $1,470 | — |
Cheapest ≠ best — every row opens the full market for that procedure in Cheonan. The complete menu lives on each procedure's page.
Getting around Cheonan
SourcedThe micro logistics: how you reach the hospital district and what staying near it costs. Sourced transit anchors per hospital; hotel and transport stay labeled estimates.
Transit & airport access — Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital (sourced)
- Bongmyeong 0.2 km · ~2 min (≈, OSM)
- Cheonan 1.4 km · ~3 min (≈, OSM)
- Hotels in the hospital districtcounted + priced as hospital profiles land Not yet sourced
- Hotel night (mid-range, near clinics)modeled estimate — the all-in calculators use the same number ≈ $90 est.
- Airport transfermodeled estimate ≈ $50 est.
Verifying a doctor while here: Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) / Ministry of Health and Welfare — physicians are licensed by MOHW and registered with the Korean Medical Association (KMA) · medicalkorea.or.kr/en/registeredsystem — KHIDI's public register of medical institutions certified to treat foreign patients (confirm your clinic holds a valid registration certificate); no public English per-physician license search — ask the clinic for the surgeon's Korean name, license number and specialty-board registration number, verifiable via KMA/MOHW — details on the South Korea page.
Medical Travel Cost Local Index — local-market score
MLI · Method 1.3 Methodology →Our 0–100 score for the city as a MARKET — price level, breadth, competition, consult access, trust and logistics — from our own data. It is NOT a healthcare-quality grade: that is South Korea's sourced AAA grade (external world indices), shown in the badge and on the country page. Unsourced metrics are excluded, never guessed.
local-market score
85% of the formula backed by data
Care quality: AAA · sourced, national
- Price level 22 Imported cheaper than 22% of cities · median entry vs 108 priced cities · 22th percentile
- Market breadth 2 Imported 5 procedures priced · share of the 303-procedure priced registry
- Provider competition 78 ✓ Verified 3 hospitals in the city · 3 sourced · hospitals reachable without changing city
- Consult access — Not sourced — · city-level consultation fees feed this
- Provider trust 64 Our index 64/100 top · best provider's Trust Index in the city
- Local logistics 74 ✓ Verified 2 sourced transit points at the top hospital · sourced transit/airport access at sourced hospitals
Same method as every page in the registry. Machine-readable version below for models & crawlers.
Explore Cheonan by condition or specialist
DirectoryStart from your diagnosis or the doctor type you need — both priced for this city.
By condition 5
Dots carry the lens colors — red opens a condition's care market, teal a specialist's price page.
Common questions
Sourced + modeledShort answers built from the numbers on this page — costs, fees, hospitals and daily budget.
What does treatment cost in Cheonan?
5 procedures are priced in Cheonan, starting from ≈ $28 with a median entry of ≈ $737. A specialist consultation runs ≈ — at the median, across 0 priced specialties.
How much do I need per day in Cheonan besides treatment?
Modeled estimates: a mid-range hotel near the hospitals ≈ $90/night, local transport ≈ $12/day plus ≈ $50 for airport transfers — estimates, not quotes; the all-in calculators on each procedure page use the same model.
Can I negotiate prices in Cheonan?
Compare itemized quotes line by line — published ranges show how much room each market has.
Which hospitals are in Cheonan, South Korea?
3 hospitals and clinics are listed for Cheonan, ranked by our transparent Trust Index (top score 64/100); 3 have fully sourced profiles. Every profile carries accreditations, reviews and published prices. Cheonan is one of several cities in South Korea — see the South Korea page for the full market.
Data & sources
50% verified Methodology →How much of this page is verified data — every section carries a chip telling you where its numbers come from.
All 8 data fields — what's verified, imported or modeled Show more Hide
- Procedure prices· 5 procedures ✓ Verified
- Consultation fees· 0 on file Not yet collected
- Hospital directory· 3 in the city ✓ Verified
- Transit & access· 2 points at Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital ✓ Verified
- Hotel & transport estimates Modeled
- Price dispersion Not yet collected
- Doctor license registry· Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) / Ministry of Health and Welfare — physicians are licensed by MOHW and registered with the Korean Medical Association (KMA) ✓ Verified
- Cost rank within South Korea· 36 other South Korea cities priced Imported
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 Medical Travel Cost Index.