The local lens · South Korea
Medical prices in Gwangmyeong, South Korea
Median entry price
≈ $871
from ≈ $34
Cost rank
#32 of 37
cheapest in South Korea
Hospitals in the city
1 · 1 sourced
Procedures priced
2
A treatment day in Gwangmyeong · 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 · Gwangmyeong is a priced care market in South Korea — 2 procedures, 0 consultation fees and 1 hospital you can reach without changing city. The country-level guide (visa, safety, system) lives on the South Korea page.
The #97 hospital in South Korea · Newsweek World's Best
#97 Gwangmyeong Sungae Hospital 3.2★ KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation)
Gwangmyeong Sungae Hospital (광명성애병원) is a general hospital (종합병원) in Cheolsan-dong, Gwangmyeong-si, Gyeonggi-do, opened 1983.12.09 under 의료법인 광명의료재단 (incorporated 1981), part of the same 성애의료재단 (Sungae Medical Foundation) that also runs the separate Sungae Hospital in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. It is currently KOIHA-accredited (급성기/acute-care type, directory-verified via 소비자24, valid 2024.04.04 to 2028.04.03) and licensed for 268 beds per that registry entry. For decades it was Gwangmyeong-si's only general hospital and remains the default 119 emergency-ambulance destination for the city; a second general hospital (Chung-Ang University Gwangmyeong Hospital) opened nearby in 2022.
- Procedures priced
- 2
- in this city
- Median entry
- ≈ $871
- across procedures
- Healthcare grade
- AAA
- sourced · national
- MLI local market
- 39/100
- our data · not a grade
- Hospitals
- 1
- 1 sourced
Hospital in Gwangmyeong, South Korea
Our indexThe one hospital we list in Gwangmyeong — placed in the wider South Korea market by Newsweek's national top 10 and our grade. Its row opens the full profile and prices; profile fully sourced. More choice sits in South Korea's bigger cities.
- Gwangmyeong Sungae Hospital #97 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation) 3.2 Google 268 beds
65 Grade
Where Gwangmyeong ranks on cost in South Korea
Price axis · lower is cheaperHow cheap Gwangmyeong 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. Gwangmyeong's median entry ≈ $871 from 2 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 Gwangmyeong
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 | ₩50,000 | $34 | up to ₩70,000 |
| Dental Implants Dental | ₩1,300,000 | $871 | up to ₩1,800,000 |
Cheapest ≠ best — every row opens the full market for that procedure in Gwangmyeong. The complete menu lives on each procedure's page.
Getting around Gwangmyeong
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 — Gwangmyeong Sungae Hospital (sourced)
- Cheolsan 0.5 km · ~6 min (≈, OSM)
- Gasan Digital Complex 1.2 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 19 Imported cheaper than 19% of cities · median entry vs 108 priced cities · 19th percentile
- Market breadth 1 Imported 2 procedures priced · share of the 303-procedure priced registry
- Provider competition 76 ✓ Verified 1 hospital in the city · 1 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 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 Gwangmyeong 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 Gwangmyeong?
2 procedures are priced in Gwangmyeong, starting from ≈ $34 with a median entry of ≈ $871. A specialist consultation runs ≈ — at the median, across 0 priced specialties.
How much do I need per day in Gwangmyeong 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 Gwangmyeong?
Compare itemized quotes line by line — published ranges show how much room each market has.
Which hospitals are in Gwangmyeong, South Korea?
1 hospital and clinic is listed for Gwangmyeong; 1 has a fully sourced profile. Every profile carries accreditations, reviews and published prices. Gwangmyeong is one of several cities in South Korea — see the South Korea page for the full market.
Data & sources
38% 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· 2 procedures Imported
- Consultation fees· 0 on file Not yet collected
- Hospital directory· 1 in the city ✓ Verified
- Transit & access· 2 points at Gwangmyeong Sungae 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.