The local lens · South Korea
Medical prices in Daegu, South Korea
Median entry price
≈ $670
from ≈ $7
Cost rank
#27 of 37
cheapest in South Korea
Avg hospital rating
3.6★
Google · across 10 hospitals
Avg reviews / hospital
98
Google · across 10 hospitals
Hospitals in the city
10 · 10 sourced
Procedures priced
36
A treatment day in Daegu · 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 · Daegu is a priced care market in South Korea — 36 procedures, 0 consultation fees and 10 hospitals you can reach without changing city. The country-level guide (visa, safety, system) lives on the South Korea page.
The #17 hospital in South Korea · Newsweek World's Best
#17 Yeungnam University Medical Center 3.7★
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.
- Procedures priced
- 36
- in this city
- Median entry
- ≈ $670
- across procedures
- Healthcare grade
- AAA
- sourced · national
- MLI local market
- 46/100
- our data · not a grade
- Hospitals
- 10
- 10 sourced
- Price spread
- 114%
- median range width
Top hospitals in Daegu, South Korea
Our indexNewsweek's national top 10 first, then our grade — 10 hospitals inside one city is negotiating power: comparable quotes without changing your hotel. Every row opens the hospital's full profile and prices. 10 fully sourced.
Median price spread 114% between published low and high across 34 priced procedures — wide ranges mean quotes are case-dependent and worth comparing.
- 63 Grade
- 67 Grade
- Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center #26 Sourced profile
multi-specialty 4.0 Google 1,041 beds
64 Grade - Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital #31 Sourced profile
multi-specialty 3.5 Google 931 beds
63 Grade - 61 Grade
- Daegu Fatima Hospital #68 Sourced profile
multi-specialty 종합병원 (General Hospital, 2차 의료급여기관) 3.9 Google 700 beds
73 Grade - 59 Grade
- Daegu Catholic University Chilgok Catholic Hospital #126 Sourced profile
multi-specialty 3.8 Google 159 beds
59 Grade - The Most Holy Trinity Hospital #133 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 급성기병원 인증 (Acute Care Hospital Accreditation) 2.8 Google 288 beds
69 Grade - 60 Grade
Where Daegu ranks on cost in South Korea
Price axis · lower is cheaperHow cheap Daegu 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. Daegu's median entry ≈ $670 from 36 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 Daegu
ImportedThe 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 | ₩10,000 | $7 | up to ₩130,000 |
| Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) Orthopedics | ₩35,000 | $23 | up to ₩155,000 |
| Teeth Cleaning Dental | ₩50,000 | $34 | up to ₩70,000 |
| Teeth Whitening Dental | ₩60,000 | $40 | up to ₩500,000 |
| Gastroscopy (Upper GI Endoscopy) Multi-specialty | ₩65,000 | $44 | up to ₩100,000 |
| Dental Fillings Dental | ₩70,000 | $47 | up to ₩150,000 |
| Ultrasonography Diagnostic Imaging Cancer Treatment (Oncology) | ₩90,000 | $60 | up to ₩292,420 |
| Computed Tomography (CT) Scan Cancer Treatment (Oncology) | ₩95,020 | $64 | up to ₩260,000 |
Cheapest ≠ best — every row opens the full market for that procedure in Daegu. The complete menu lives on each procedure's page.
Getting around Daegu
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 — Yeungnam University Medical Center (sourced)
- 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)
- 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 27 Imported cheaper than 27% of cities · median entry vs 108 priced cities · 27th percentile
- Market breadth 12 Imported 36 procedures priced · share of the 303-procedure priced registry
- Provider competition 85 ✓ Verified 10 hospitals in the city · 10 sourced · hospitals reachable without changing city
- Consult access — Not sourced — · city-level consultation fees feed this
- Provider trust 62 Our index 62/100 top · best provider's Trust Index in the city
- Local logistics 81 ✓ Verified 3 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 Daegu 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 Daegu?
36 procedures are priced in Daegu, starting from ≈ $7 with a median entry of ≈ $670. A specialist consultation runs ≈ — at the median, across 0 priced specialties.
How much do I need per day in Daegu 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 Daegu?
Published ranges here spread a median of 114% between low and high — wide ranges mean quotes are case-dependent and comparable offers are worth collecting. Always compare itemized quotes line by line.
Which hospitals are in Daegu, South Korea?
10 hospitals and clinics are listed for Daegu, ranked by our transparent Trust Index (top score 62/100); 10 have fully sourced profiles. Every profile carries accreditations, reviews and published prices. Daegu 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· 36 procedures ✓ Verified
- Consultation fees· 0 on file Not yet collected
- Hospital directory· 10 in the city ✓ Verified
- Transit & access· 3 points at Yeungnam University Medical Center ✓ Verified
- Hotel & transport estimates Modeled
- Price dispersion· median 114% Imported
- 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.