The local lens · South Korea
Medical prices in Seongnam, South Korea
Median entry price
≈ $570
from ≈ $201
Cost rank
#25 of 37
cheapest in South Korea
Avg hospital rating
3.7★
Google · across 3 hospitals
Avg reviews / hospital
220
Google · across 3 hospitals
Hospitals in the city
3 · 3 sourced
Procedures priced
8
A treatment day in Seongnam · the local basket
what a day here burns, besides the procedure
- Specialist consult
- ≈ $37median · 32 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 · Seongnam is a priced care market in South Korea — 8 procedures, 32 consultation fees and 3 hospitals you can reach without changing city. The country-level guide (visa, safety, system) lives on the South Korea page.
The #5 hospital in South Korea · Newsweek World's Best
#5 Seoul National University Bundang Hospital 3.9★
Opened in 2003 and affiliated with Seoul National University, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) is the largest hospital in Gyeonggi province (1,424 beds). Korea's first fully digital, paperless hospital, it was named to Newsweek's World's Best Smart Hospitals and runs 36+ departments and 12 specialised centres.
- Procedures priced
- 8
- in this city
- Median entry
- ≈ $570
- across procedures
- Consult median
- ≈ $37
- 32 specialties
- Healthcare grade
- AAA
- sourced · national
- MLI local market
- 46/100
- our data · not a grade
- Hospitals
- 3
- 3 sourced
- Price spread
- 129%
- median range width
Top hospitals in Seongnam, South Korea
Our indexNewsweek's national top 10 first, then our grade — 3 hospitals inside one city is negotiating power: comparable quotes without changing your hotel. Every row opens the hospital's full profile and prices. 3 fully sourced.
Median price spread 129% between published low and high across 7 priced procedures — wide ranges mean quotes are case-dependent and worth comparing.
- 73 Grade
- CHA University - Bundang Medical Center #41 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation, 급성기 acute-care accreditation) 3.3 Google 887 beds
72 Grade - 62 Grade
Where Seongnam ranks on cost in South Korea
Price axis · lower is cheaperHow cheap Seongnam 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. Seongnam's median entry ≈ $570 from 8 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 Seongnam
ImportedThe cheapest published entries in this city — each links to its full city-level comparison with hospitals and sources.
| Procedure | From (local) | ≈ USD | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embryo Freezing Fertility & IVF | ₩300,000 | $201 | up to ₩800,000 |
| Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Cancer Treatment (Oncology) | ₩410,000 | $275 | up to ₩1,440,000 |
| Comprehensive Health Screening Multi-specialty | ₩500,000 | $335 | up to ₩550,000 |
| Cataract Surgery Eye Care (Ophthalmology) | ₩651,500 | $437 | up to ₩4,104,150 |
| Cardiac MRI Cardiology & Heart Surgery | ₩850,000 | $570 | — |
| Dental Implants Dental | ₩1,000,000 | $670 | up to ₩1,500,000 |
| LASIK Eye Surgery Eye Care (Ophthalmology) | ₩1,400,000 | $938 | up to ₩3,200,000 |
| Egg Freezing Fertility & IVF | ₩2,000,000 | $1,340 | up to ₩3,000,000 |
Cheapest ≠ best — every row opens the full market for that procedure in Seongnam. The complete menu lives on each procedure's page.
The consultation-fee market in Seongnam
Imported32 specialist consultation fees on file — the entry ticket to every pathway. Median ≈ $37; each links to that specialty's full price page.
Cheapest consultations 5
City-level imported fees, re-verified over time — the fee spread itself is a market signal: seniority, equipment and demand price the visit.
Getting around Seongnam
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 — Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (sourced)
- Bundang Line — Bundang Seoul National University Hospital Station 1 km · ~4 min by taxi
- Incheon Int'l Airport (ICN) 65 km · ~80 min by car
- Gimpo Int'l Airport (GMP) 40 km · ~55 min by car
- 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
100% of the formula backed by data
Care quality: AAA · sourced, national
- Price level 33 Imported cheaper than 33% of cities · median entry vs 108 priced cities · 33th percentile
- Market breadth 3 Imported 8 procedures priced · share of the 303-procedure priced registry
- Provider competition 78 ✓ Verified 3 hospitals in the city · 3 sourced · hospitals reachable without changing city
- Consult access 51 Imported 32 fees on file · median ≈ $37 · specialist consultation fees priced in this city
- 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 Seongnam 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 Seongnam?
8 procedures are priced in Seongnam, starting from ≈ $201 with a median entry of ≈ $570. A specialist consultation runs ≈ $37 at the median, across 32 priced specialties.
How much do I need per day in Seongnam 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 Seongnam?
Published ranges here spread a median of 129% 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 Seongnam, South Korea?
3 hospitals and clinics are listed for Seongnam, ranked by our transparent Trust Index (top score 62/100); 3 have fully sourced profiles. Every profile carries accreditations, reviews and published prices. Seongnam 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· 8 procedures ✓ Verified
- Consultation fees· 32 on file Imported
- Hospital directory· 3 in the city ✓ Verified
- Transit & access· 3 points at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital ✓ Verified
- Hotel & transport estimates Modeled
- Price dispersion· median 129% 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.