The local lens · South Korea
Medical prices in Suwon, South Korea
Median entry price
≈ $127
from ≈ $6
Cost rank
#4 of 37
cheapest in South Korea
Hospitals in the city
3 · 3 sourced
Procedures priced
17
A treatment day in Suwon · the local basket
what a day here burns, besides the procedure
- Specialist consult
- ≈ $37median · 36 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 · Suwon is a priced care market in South Korea — 17 procedures, 36 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 #7 hospital in South Korea · Newsweek World's Best
#7 Ajou University Hospital
Opened in 1994, Ajou University Hospital in Suwon is a 1,090-bed teaching hospital and the leading tertiary centre for southern Gyeonggi province — the only hospital in Korea with all four essential systems (regional trauma centre, regional emergency, paediatric emergency and regional maternal-child centre), with 10 organ-specific cancer centres.
- Procedures priced
- 17
- in this city
- Median entry
- ≈ $127
- across procedures
- Consult median
- ≈ $37
- 36 specialties
- Healthcare grade
- AAA
- sourced · national
- MLI local market
- 56/100
- our data · not a grade
- Hospitals
- 3
- 3 sourced
- Price spread
- 242%
- median range width
Top hospitals in Suwon, 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 242% between published low and high across 15 priced procedures — wide ranges mean quotes are case-dependent and worth comparing.
- 68 Grade
- The Catholic University of Korea - St. Vincent's Hospital #57 Sourced profile
multi-specialty 4주기 의료기관평가 인증 (4th-cycle Healthcare Accreditation) 3.2 Google 786 beds
71 Grade - Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center Suwon Hospital #131 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA (의료기관인증) 3.0 Google
65 Grade
Where Suwon ranks on cost in South Korea
Price axis · lower is cheaperHow cheap Suwon 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. Suwon's median entry ≈ $127 from 17 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 Suwon
ImportedThe cheapest published entries in this city — each links to its full city-level comparison with hospitals and sources.
| Procedure | From (local) | ≈ USD | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dental Checkup Dental | ₩8,300 | $6 | up to ₩30,000 |
| Teeth Cleaning Dental | ₩17,800 | $12 | up to ₩70,000 |
| Manual Therapy Orthopedics | ₩29,000 | $19 | up to ₩120,000 |
| Botox Anti-Aging & Wellness | ₩30,000 | $20 | up to ₩199,000 |
| Comprehensive Eye Exam Eye Care (Ophthalmology) | ₩30,000 | $20 | up to ₩100,000 |
| Gastroscopy (Upper GI Endoscopy) Multi-specialty | ₩40,000 | $27 | up to ₩130,000 |
| Colonoscopy Multi-specialty | ₩70,000 | $47 | up to ₩290,000 |
| Ultrasonography Diagnostic Imaging Cancer Treatment (Oncology) | ₩130,000 | $87 | up to ₩405,000 |
Cheapest ≠ best — every row opens the full market for that procedure in Suwon. The complete menu lives on each procedure's page.
The consultation-fee market in Suwon
Imported36 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 Suwon
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 — Ajou University Hospital (sourced)
- Incheon Int'l Airport (ICN) 65 km · ~75 min by car
- Gimpo Int'l Airport (GMP) 45 km · ~60 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 73 Imported cheaper than 73% of cities · median entry vs 108 priced cities · 73th percentile
- Market breadth 6 Imported 17 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 52 Imported 36 fees on file · median ≈ $37 · specialist consultation fees priced in this city
- 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 Suwon 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 Suwon?
17 procedures are priced in Suwon, starting from ≈ $6 with a median entry of ≈ $127. A specialist consultation runs ≈ $37 at the median, across 36 priced specialties.
How much do I need per day in Suwon 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 Suwon?
Published ranges here spread a median of 242% 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 Suwon, South Korea?
3 hospitals and clinics are listed for Suwon, ranked by our transparent Trust Index (top score 63/100); 3 have fully sourced profiles. Every profile carries accreditations, reviews and published prices. Suwon 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· 17 procedures ✓ Verified
- Consultation fees· 36 on file Imported
- Hospital directory· 3 in the city ✓ Verified
- Transit & access· 2 points at Ajou University Hospital ✓ Verified
- Hotel & transport estimates Modeled
- Price dispersion· median 242% 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.