The local lens · South Korea
Medical prices in Pohang, South Korea
Median entry price
≈ $302
from ≈ $302
Cost rank
#7 of 37
cheapest in South Korea
Hospitals in the city
2 · 2 sourced
Procedures priced
1
A treatment day in Pohang · 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 · Pohang is a priced care market in South Korea — 1 procedures, 0 consultation fees and 2 hospitals you can reach without changing city. The country-level guide (visa, safety, system) lives on the South Korea page.
The #90 hospital in South Korea · Newsweek World's Best
#90 Pohang St. Mary's Hospital 2.9★ KOIHA
Pohang St. Mary's Hospital (포항성모병원) is a private, non-profit general hospital (종합병원) in Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongsangbuk-do, founded by the Catholic religious congregation 예수성심시녀회 (Sisters Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) and opened in the late 1970s after construction began in 1976. It operates a designated regional emergency medical center (24/7), a cancer center, a health-promotion/comprehensive-screening center, and an inpatient hospice/palliative-care program, with roughly 500 general inpatient beds per the official HIRA hospital directory. It is a distinct institution from the Catholic University of Korea's 8-campus St. Mary's chain despite the shared 성모/St. Mary's name.
- Procedures priced
- 1
- in this city
- Median entry
- ≈ $302
- across procedures
- Healthcare grade
- AAA
- sourced · national
- MLI local market
- 51/100
- our data · not a grade
- Hospitals
- 2
- 2 sourced
Top hospitals in Pohang, South Korea
Our indexNewsweek's national top 10 first, then our grade — 2 hospitals inside one city is negotiating power: comparable quotes without changing your hotel. Every row opens the hospital's full profile and prices. 2 fully sourced.
- 67 Grade
- 61 Grade
Where Pohang ranks on cost in South Korea
Price axis · lower is cheaperHow cheap Pohang 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. Pohang's median entry ≈ $302 from 1 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 Pohang
ImportedThe cheapest published entries in this city — each links to its full city-level comparison with hospitals and sources.
| Procedure | From (local) | ≈ USD | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive Health Screening Multi-specialty | ₩450,000 | $302 | up to ₩500,000 |
Cheapest ≠ best — every row opens the full market for that procedure in Pohang. The complete menu lives on each procedure's page.
Getting around Pohang
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 — Pohang St. Mary's Hospital (sourced)
- 포항경주공항 8.0 km · ~12 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 65 Imported cheaper than 65% of cities · median entry vs 108 priced cities · 65th percentile
- Market breadth 0 Imported 1 procedures priced · share of the 303-procedure priced registry
- Provider competition 77 ✓ Verified 2 hospitals in the city · 2 sourced · hospitals reachable without changing city
- Consult access — Not sourced — · city-level consultation fees feed this
- Provider trust 61 Our index 61/100 top · best provider's Trust Index in the city
- Local logistics 67 ✓ Verified 1 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 Pohang 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 Pohang?
1 procedures are priced in Pohang, starting from ≈ $302 with a median entry of ≈ $302. A specialist consultation runs ≈ — at the median, across 0 priced specialties.
How much do I need per day in Pohang 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 Pohang?
Compare itemized quotes line by line — published ranges show how much room each market has.
Which hospitals are in Pohang, South Korea?
2 hospitals and clinics are listed for Pohang, ranked by our transparent Trust Index (top score 61/100); 2 have fully sourced profiles. Every profile carries accreditations, reviews and published prices. Pohang 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· 1 procedures Imported
- Consultation fees· 0 on file Not yet collected
- Hospital directory· 2 in the city ✓ Verified
- Transit & access· 1 points at Pohang St. Mary's 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.