The local lens · South Korea
Medical prices in Daejeon, South Korea
Median entry price
≈ $335
from ≈ $22
Cost rank
#10 of 37
cheapest in South Korea
Avg hospital rating
3.7★
Google · across 5 hospitals
Avg reviews / hospital
90
Google · across 5 hospitals
Hospitals in the city
5 · 5 sourced
Procedures priced
6
A treatment day in Daejeon · 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 · Daejeon is a priced care market in South Korea — 6 procedures, 0 consultation fees and 5 hospitals you can reach without changing city. The country-level guide (visa, safety, system) lives on the South Korea page.
The #19 hospital in South Korea · Newsweek World's Best
#19 Chungnam National University Hospital 3.2★ KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation) — 상급종합병원/급성기 (tertiary hospital, acute-care) certification
Chungnam National University Hospital (충남대학교병원) is a public national-university tertiary teaching hospital (상급종합병원) in Munhwa-ro, Jung-gu, Daejeon, established 1972 as the first teaching hospital in Korea's central Chungcheong region. It is affiliated with Chungnam National University College of Medicine and is distinct from its own 2020-opened sister campus, Sejong Chungnam National University Hospital, and from Chonnam National University Hospital (전남/Jeollanam-do) and Chonnam National University-Hwasun Hospital, unrelated institutions with similar-sounding romanized names. It holds current KOIHA acute-care/tertiary accreditation (cert 4-15, valid 2023-02-07 to 2027-02-06, directory-verified via 소비자24); no JCI accreditation is claimed. Its own 2025-12 hospital-status dashboard reports 1,186 operating beds (down from 1,409 in 2015, per its own decade-long facilities chart), while its KOIHA registry entry separately lists 1,303 licensed beds — both cited rather than averaged. It runs a Gamma Knife radiosurgery center, organ- and hematopoietic-stem-cell-transplant programs, a critical care center, and a regionally-designated rare-disease referral institution, alongside a broad roster of clinical departments spanning internal medicine subspecialties, surgery, women's/children's health, and dentistry. Its own mandated 비급여 (non-covered) fee disclosure carries a dental-implant line (1.9-3.0M won per tooth, materials included), manual therapy (33,000-55,100 won/day), musculoskeletal ESWT (134,000-294,100 won), and a flat-priced brain MRI menu (741,800 won regardless of contrast or field strength) — but no plain diagnostic CT line item was found anywhere in its disclosure database. Its Comprehensive Health Promotion Center separately publishes self-pay screening-program prices from an entry '2030검진' tier (450,000/500,000 won) up to a top cerebro/cardiovascular precision tier (3.5-3.99M won); no separate foreigner-package pricing was found on its International Healthcare Center page.
- Procedures priced
- 6
- in this city
- Median entry
- ≈ $335
- across procedures
- Healthcare grade
- AAA
- sourced · national
- MLI local market
- 52/100
- our data · not a grade
- Hospitals
- 5
- 5 sourced
- Price spread
- 114%
- median range width
Top hospitals in Daejeon, South Korea
Our indexNewsweek's national top 10 first, then our grade — 5 hospitals inside one city is negotiating power: comparable quotes without changing your hotel. Every row opens the hospital's full profile and prices. 5 fully sourced.
Median price spread 114% between published low and high across 5 priced procedures — wide ranges mean quotes are case-dependent and worth comparing.
- Chungnam National University Hospital #19 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation) — 상급종합병원/급성기 (tertiary hospital, acute-care) certification 3.2 Google 1,186 beds
71 Grade - The Catholic University of Korea Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital #75 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 3.6 Google 657 beds
68 Grade - Daejeon Sun Medical Center #82 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 급성기병원 인증 (Acute-Care Hospital Accreditation) 3.6 Google 328 beds
67 Grade - Yuseong Sun Medical Center #92 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation, 급성기 acute-care type) 3.6 Google 329 beds
66 Grade - 63 Grade
Where Daejeon ranks on cost in South Korea
Price axis · lower is cheaperHow cheap Daejeon 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. Daejeon's median entry ≈ $335 from 6 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 Daejeon
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 | ₩33,000 | $22 | up to ₩80,000 |
| Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) Orthopedics | ₩70,000 | $47 | up to ₩294,100 |
| Comprehensive Health Screening Multi-specialty | ₩250,000 | $168 | up to ₩500,000 |
| Dental Crowns Dental | ₩500,000 | $335 | — |
| Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Cancer Treatment (Oncology) | ₩540,000 | $362 | up to ₩741,800 |
| Dental Implants Dental | ₩1,400,000 | $938 | up to ₩3,000,000 |
Cheapest ≠ best — every row opens the full market for that procedure in Daejeon. The complete menu lives on each procedure's page.
Getting around Daejeon
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 — Chungnam National University Hospital (sourced)
- Seodaejeonnegeori 0.7 km · ~8 min (≈, OSM)
- Jung-gu Office 0.9 km · ~11 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 60 Imported cheaper than 60% of cities · median entry vs 108 priced cities · 60th percentile
- Market breadth 2 Imported 6 procedures priced · share of the 303-procedure priced registry
- Provider competition 80 ✓ Verified 5 hospitals in the city · 5 sourced · hospitals reachable without changing city
- Consult access — Not sourced — · city-level consultation fees feed this
- Provider trust 63 Our index 63/100 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 Daejeon 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 Daejeon?
6 procedures are priced in Daejeon, starting from ≈ $22 with a median entry of ≈ $335. A specialist consultation runs ≈ — at the median, across 0 priced specialties.
How much do I need per day in Daejeon 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 Daejeon?
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 Daejeon, South Korea?
5 hospitals and clinics are listed for Daejeon, ranked by our transparent Trust Index (top score 63/100); 5 have fully sourced profiles. Every profile carries accreditations, reviews and published prices. Daejeon 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· 6 procedures ✓ Verified
- Consultation fees· 0 on file Not yet collected
- Hospital directory· 5 in the city ✓ Verified
- Transit & access· 2 points at Chungnam National University Hospital ✓ 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.