More than 80,000 short- or long-term visitors received medical treatment last year in Korea, largely driven by the nation‘s skillful doctors and relatively low costs.
Gangnam-gu, southern part of Seoul is where majority of plastic surgery and skincare clinics are located; 430 clinics within Gangnam district.
Gangnam-gu is known for a high- class wealthy district with many fashion attractions and “posh” places.
One of the beauty clinics in Gangnam, Arumdaun Nara Beauty Clinic’s chairman Lee Sang-jun said, “Around 200 foreign patients visit the clinic in a month. Affected by the Korean Wave in Asia, most of them are Japanese and Chinese people. There are a growing number of visitors from Central Asia and Eastern Europe as well,“ then he noted there has been a 20 percent increase of foreign patients every year.
Due to a rapid increase of foreign patients, major clinics have plastic surgery coordinators fluent in foreign languages.
Lee’s clinic, Arumdaun Nara Beauty Clinic runs its multiple-language website, offers interpretation services in six languages, including Chinese, Japanese, English, French, Spanish and Russian.
Gangnam district office even created a list of quality clinics on its multi-language official district website.
For more information on the list of plastic surgery and beauty clinics and sightseeing tours in Gangnam district, go to http://global.gangnam.go.kr
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Park Sae-jin
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