Banobagi Plastic Surgery (바노바기성형외과)
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 81.1/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #9 of 20 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Foreign-patient ready
Summary
Multi-physician plastic-surgery clinic in Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu. A co-representative physician is named in the clinic's own site footer and matched in the national specialist-society directory and the facility register with a matching specialist headcount.
Google Maps listing (reference, not scored)
What the clinic's public Google Maps listing showed when we read it: the rating other people gave, the number of their reviews and the hours the clinic itself publishes there. This block is a reference only — it does not enter the score, the rank, the ceilings or the holds, and we have not checked it beyond matching the listing to this record.
| Google rating | 4.4 out of 5 · reviews: 253 |
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| Opening hours as published on the listing |
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| Open the listing on Google Maps | Google Maps |
Source: Google Maps, read 4 October 2026. The listing was matched to this record by the clinic's website address, the clinic's phone number.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: kspgrs, 22 September 2026 — class registry_closed in jurisdiction national (state portal login-gated from two egresses); the society listing is shown as a fact Physician found in the national plastic-surgery specialist-society directory; facility register shows 8 of 15 physicians as 성형외과 (plastic surgery) specialists at this address. |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-09-20 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Named; role unclear. Named as co-representative in the site footer; no dedicated individual biography page was found. [site-doc] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: mohw_sanctions, 20 September 2026 — Korea has no anonymous licence search: lic.mohw.go.kr was re-probed on 2026-09-20 and the register function still requires the holder’s own sign-in (see registry-map medical_licence.closedAttempt). Secondary routes run for this record: mohw_sanctions — HTTP 200, both disclosure cycles read row by row; neither the institution nor the physician appears, so that register publishes no 대표자의면허번호 for this physician, and an absence there says nothing about the licence. ksprs_roster and hira_specialists answered but carry no licence number, and the clinic’s own pages (home and footer, re-read 2026-09-20) publish no 의사면허번호, so the M3 = 3 anchor does not apply. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-20 |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Facility register entry name and address match the clinic. [hira-search] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The legal entity and its registration number are published by the clinic and matched in the register. |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Partial, without issuers. Institution name, address and a registration number are published without an issuing authority label. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 17 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. Three of the five document classes found on the clinic's own pages: risk/complication information, revision-surgery information, and a customer-service contact channel. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-29 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] |
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| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| 반재상 (Ban Jae-sang) [site-doc] [board] | Co-representative director (공동대표), plastic surgery specialist | not published |
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified yes →
- Breast surgery: verified yes →
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified yes →
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
- Foreign-patient register (KHIDI 국제의료정보포털/메디컬코리아 — 외국인환자 유치의료기관 정보시스템 (Medical Korea foreign-patient-recruiting institution registry)): verified yes [khidi]
Secondary findings (not scored)
What a professional society, an international directory, a hospital page or another jurisdiction’s register says, shown for information where the country’s own register is closed. These facts enter neither the score nor the coverage.
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECListed in the 대한성형외과학회 (KSPRS) certified-specialist finder as a plastic-surgery specialist (society roster, secondary route); the state specialist-qualification register (lic.mohw.go.kr) is login-gated, so the axis is not scored (v1.3 § C, owner ruling 51).[board] [hira-search] [hira-detail]
What we could not verify
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician — Register closed to machine queries
- M3 · Basic medical licence — Register closed to machine queries
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.banobagi.com |
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| Phone | 1588-6508 |
| Address | 서울특별시 강남구 논현로 517, 바노바기빌딩 (역삼동), Seoul, Gangnam-gu, Nonhyeon-ro 517 |
| City | Seoul |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.banobagi.com/ | clinic's own site | institution name, address, menu | 29 August 2026 |
| site-doc | https://www.banobagi.com/page/w_doc | clinic's own site | footer representative name and registration number; doctor-selection page | 29 August 2026 |
| board | https://www.plasticsurgery.or.kr/about/hospital/search.php | secondary | POST https://www.plasticsurgery.or.kr/about/hospital/search.php body: local=&country=&limit=1000&get_page=1&keyword=hospital&key=바노바기 — returned 14 certified specialists at 서울시 강남구 논현로 517, 바노바기빌딩 (역삼동), including 반재상 | 29 August 2026 |
| hira-search | https://apm.hira.or.kr/search?where=ykiho&query=%EB%B0%94%EB%85%B8%… | official register | GET https://apm.hira.or.kr/search?where=ykiho&query=바노바기 — 7 results incl. 바노바기성형외과의원, 서울특별시 강남구 논현로 517 (역삼동), ykiho MTIzNDUxOTk= | 29 August 2026 |
| hira-detail | https://apm.hira.or.kr/mapSearch/medicalCareMedicalDetailInfoAjax?y… | official register | GET facility detail fragment — 의사수 총 15명, 전문과목별 성형외과 8명 | 29 August 2026 |
| hometax | https://teht.hometax.go.kr/wqAction.do?actionId=ATTABZAA001R08&scre… | official register | POST JSON {"txprDscmNo":"2200887096",...} — 등록되어 있는 사업자등록번호, 부가가치세 일반과세자 | 29 August 2026 |
| khidi | https://www.medicalkorea.or.kr/korp/agencyStateList.do | official register | POST body: korName=바노바기성형외과 — 6 results incl. 바노바기성형외과의원 / 오창현 / 서울 / 상태 유지 | 29 August 2026 |
| mohw | https://www.mohw.go.kr/claimList.es?mid=a10507010200 | official register | GET — false-claim / illegal-establishment institution disclosure table, browsed and searched for this institution and physician name | 29 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M1: 5 → null (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § C class closed in the record's jurisdiction) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Re-run against the medical_licence class (v1.2 loop pass 1): register re-probed, still login-gated; secondary routes run; typed retry → registry_closed.) |
| 29 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
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