The local lens · South Korea
Medical prices in Gwangju, South Korea
Median entry price
≈ $362
from ≈ $40
Cost rank
#13 of 37
cheapest in South Korea
Avg hospital rating
4.0★
Google · across 4 hospitals
Avg reviews / hospital
61
Google · across 4 hospitals
Hospitals in the city
4 · 4 sourced
Procedures priced
6
A treatment day in Gwangju · 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 · Gwangju is a priced care market in South Korea — 6 procedures, 0 consultation fees and 4 hospitals you can reach without changing city. The country-level guide (visa, safety, system) lives on the South Korea page.
The #24 hospital in South Korea · Newsweek World's Best
#24 Chonnam National University Hospital 3.6★ KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation) — 상급종합병원/급성기 (tertiary hospital, acute-care) certification
Chonnam National University Hospital (전남대학교병원) is a public national-university tertiary teaching hospital (상급종합병원) at 42 Jebong-ro, Dong-gu, Gwangju, tracing its founding to 1910 as a provincial public clinic and taking its current name in 1988; it is the teaching hospital of Chonnam National University College of Medicine. It is one of five institutions on a shared network/CMS alongside its Hwasun campus (화순전남대학교병원, a separate city and a separately accredited entity), a dedicated Dental Hospital, the Bitgoeul Hospital, and a Children's Hospital — and is unrelated to the similarly-romanized Chungnam National University Hospital in Daejeon. It holds current KOIHA acute-care/tertiary accreditation (cert 4-25, valid 2023-02-07 to 2027-02-06, directory-verified via 소비자24); no JCI accreditation is claimed or found. Its own 2026 facilities dashboard reports 1,096 total operating beds on a 38,200 sq-m site with 122,950 sq-m of floor space, while its KOIHA registry entry separately lists 1,080 licensed beds — both cited rather than averaged. It runs designated centers for cardio-cerebrovascular disease, digestive disease, organ transplantation, kidney disease, emergency medicine, regional trauma, and international patients, and has been named to Newsweek's World's Best Hospitals / World's Best Specialized Hospitals lists in multiple recent years. Its own mandated 비급여 (non-covered) fee disclosure carries manual therapy (59,000-77,000 won/day), musculoskeletal ESWT (90,000-164,000 won per session, first vs. additional), and a flat-priced non-contrast brain MRI (770,000 won) — but, like several peer national-university hospitals, no stand-alone plain diagnostic CT line item, since diagnostic CT is largely NHIS-covered rather than a self-pay 비급여 item. Its dental-implant pricing is disclosed as two separate fee-schedule components (a surgical fixture-placement fee and a crown/prosthesis fee, each split across two internal code series) rather than one bundled per-tooth figure, giving a combined observed range of roughly 1.17-3.48 million won depending on tier. Its Health Promotion Center separately publishes self-pay screening-program prices from a base '필수 건강진단' tier (550,000/590,000 won, non-sedated) up to a 'Premium' precision bundle (3.8-4.07 million won, billed on top of the base checkup); no separate foreigner-package pricing was found.
- Procedures priced
- 6
- in this city
- Median entry
- ≈ $362
- across procedures
- Healthcare grade
- AAA
- sourced · national
- MLI local market
- 51/100
- our data · not a grade
- Hospitals
- 4
- 4 sourced
- Price spread
- 43%
- median range width
Top hospitals in Gwangju, South Korea
Our indexNewsweek's national top 10 first, then our grade — 4 hospitals inside one city is negotiating power: comparable quotes without changing your hotel. Every row opens the hospital's full profile and prices. 4 fully sourced.
Median price spread 43% between published low and high across 5 priced procedures — wide ranges mean quotes are case-dependent and worth comparing.
- Chonnam National University Hospital #24 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation) — 상급종합병원/급성기 (tertiary hospital, acute-care) certification 3.6 Google 1,096 beds
72 Grade - Chosun University Hospital #74 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation, 급성기병원 인증) 3.5 Google 849 beds
73 Grade - Kwangju Christian Hospital #109 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation) 3.8 Google 545 beds
70 Grade - VHS Gwangju Hospital #130 Sourced profile
multi-specialty 의료기관인증 (Medical Institution Accreditation) — KOIHA, 4th cycle 5.0 Google 577 beds
72 Grade
Where Gwangju ranks on cost in South Korea
Price axis · lower is cheaperHow cheap Gwangju 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. Gwangju's median entry ≈ $362 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 Gwangju
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 | ₩59,000 | $40 | up to ₩77,000 |
| Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) Orthopedics | ₩70,000 | $47 | up to ₩164,000 |
| Computed Tomography (CT) Scan Cancer Treatment (Oncology) | ₩100,000 | $67 | — |
| Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Cancer Treatment (Oncology) | ₩540,000 | $362 | up to ₩770,000 |
| Comprehensive Health Screening Multi-specialty | ₩550,000 | $369 | up to ₩590,000 |
| Dental Implants Dental | ₩1,170,000 | $784 | up to ₩3,480,000 |
Cheapest ≠ best — every row opens the full market for that procedure in Gwangju. The complete menu lives on each procedure's page.
Getting around Gwangju
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 — Chonnam National University Hospital (sourced)
- Namgwangju 0.3 km · ~3 min (≈, OSM)
- Chosun Univ. 0.4 km · ~5 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 58 Imported cheaper than 58% of cities · median entry vs 108 priced cities · 58th percentile
- Market breadth 2 Imported 6 procedures priced · share of the 303-procedure priced registry
- Provider competition 79 ✓ Verified 4 hospitals in the city · 4 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 Gwangju 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 Gwangju?
6 procedures are priced in Gwangju, starting from ≈ $40 with a median entry of ≈ $362. A specialist consultation runs ≈ — at the median, across 0 priced specialties.
How much do I need per day in Gwangju 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 Gwangju?
Published ranges here spread a median of 43% 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 Gwangju, South Korea?
4 hospitals and clinics are listed for Gwangju, ranked by our transparent Trust Index (top score 63/100); 4 have fully sourced profiles. Every profile carries accreditations, reviews and published prices. Gwangju 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· 4 in the city ✓ Verified
- Transit & access· 2 points at Chonnam National University Hospital ✓ Verified
- Hotel & transport estimates Modeled
- Price dispersion· median 43% 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.