The local lens · South Korea
Medical prices in Ulsan, South Korea
Median entry price
≈ $335
from ≈ $40
Cost rank
#10 of 37
cheapest in South Korea
Hospitals in the city
1 · 1 sourced
Procedures priced
3
A treatment day in Ulsan · 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 · Ulsan is a priced care market in South Korea — 3 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 #36 hospital in South Korea · Newsweek World's Best
#36 Ulsan University Hospital 3.5★
Ulsan University Hospital is a 913-bed tertiary/advanced general hospital in Dong-gu, Ulsan, founded in 1975 by Hyundai Heavy Industries and reorganized under the University of Ulsan in 1997. It is the region's designated regional emergency medical center, regional trauma center, and regional cardio-cerebrovascular disease center, with dedicated cancer, heart, and brain centers.
- Procedures priced
- 3
- in this city
- Median entry
- ≈ $335
- across procedures
- Healthcare grade
- AAA
- sourced · national
- MLI local market
- 51/100
- our data · not a grade
- Hospitals
- 1
- 1 sourced
Hospital in Ulsan, South Korea
Our indexThe one hospital we list in Ulsan — 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.
- 64 Grade
Where Ulsan ranks on cost in South Korea
Price axis · lower is cheaperHow cheap Ulsan 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. Ulsan's median entry ≈ $335 from 3 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 Ulsan
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 | ₩60,000 | $40 | up to ₩123,000 |
| Comprehensive Health Screening Multi-specialty | ₩500,000 | $335 | — |
| Dental Implants Dental | ₩1,600,000 | $1,070 | up to ₩3,000,000 |
Cheapest ≠ best — every row opens the full market for that procedure in Ulsan. The complete menu lives on each procedure's page.
Getting around Ulsan
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 — Ulsan University Hospital (sourced)
- 울산공항 10.8 km · ~16 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 60 Imported cheaper than 60% of cities · median entry vs 108 priced cities · 60th percentile
- Market breadth 1 Imported 3 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 65 Our index 65/100 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 Ulsan 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 Ulsan?
3 procedures are priced in Ulsan, starting from ≈ $40 with a median entry of ≈ $335. A specialist consultation runs ≈ — at the median, across 0 priced specialties.
How much do I need per day in Ulsan 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 Ulsan?
Compare itemized quotes line by line — published ranges show how much room each market has.
Which hospitals are in Ulsan, South Korea?
1 hospital and clinic is listed for Ulsan; 1 has a fully sourced profile. Every profile carries accreditations, reviews and published prices. Ulsan 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· 3 procedures Imported
- Consultation fees· 0 on file Not yet collected
- Hospital directory· 1 in the city ✓ Verified
- Transit & access· 1 points at Ulsan University 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.