BK Plastic Surgery (BK성형외과)
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 67.2/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #19 of 20 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Single-site plastic-surgery clinic in Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu. Responsible physician named as chief director on the clinic's own doctor-introduction page and matched in the national specialist-society directory.
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 by hospital-name search in the national plastic-surgery specialist-society directory. The facility could not be matched in the facility register under this or related spellings, so the register-confirmed specialty headcount could not be obtained. |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-09-20 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
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 Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 20 September 2026 — HTTP 200 on every leg. The register returns the other occupants of the building at 서울특별시 강남구 도산대로 106 (케이올림성형외과의원 11362456, 청담타임성형외과의원 12323969, 신사연정신건강의학과의원 13307614, 디앙치과의원 11599847, 신사청구경희한의원 11974958, 모리브의원 13328620) but no 요양기관 under this clinic’s own name at that address; 비케이성형외과의원 returns only 씨 비케이성형외과 의원 (12359611) at 봉은사로 209, a different address. Autocomplete offers bk성형외과의원 as a keyword, and that term returns the same building occupants. Queried with no match — a miss on an open register is never a value. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-20 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The register contradicts the legal entity the clinic names: no such number, the entity is dissolved, or the number belongs to an entity with no traceable link to this location (different address and different people). Verified conflict → hold H2. An entity that is simply not found is “queried, no match”, never this value. The registration number published in the site footer does not match a currently active entry in the national tax register. [site] [hometax] 등록되어 있지 않은 사업자등록번호 입니다. (폐업일자: 2024-08-31) |
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 One. One of the five document classes (revision-surgery information) found on the clinic's own pages. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-29 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
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] |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 금인섭 (Keum In-seop) [site-doc] [board] | Chief director (대표원장), 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)): could not verify
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]
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
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- 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.bkhospital.com |
|---|---|
| Phone | 02-544-0404 |
| Address | 서울특별시 강남구 도산대로 106 BK빌딩 (논현동), Seoul, Gangnam-gu, Dosan-daero 106 |
| City | Seoul |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.bkhospital.com/ | clinic's own site | institution name, address, footer registration number, representative name | 29 August 2026 |
| site-doc | https://www.bkhospital.com/intro3.html | clinic's own site | physician name, role (대표원장), specialty, biography | 29 August 2026 |
| site-en | https://www.bkhospital.com/english/index.html | clinic's own site | English-language menu / service list | 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=BK — returned 12 certified specialists at 서울시 강남구 도산대로 106, BK빌딩 (논현동), including 금인섭 | 29 August 2026 |
| hometax | https://teht.hometax.go.kr/wqAction.do?actionId=ATTABZAA001R08&scre… | official register | POST JSON {"txprDscmNo":"1441700026",...} — business-registration status check for 144-17-00026 | 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: 2 → null (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § C class closed in the record's jurisdiction) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against HIRA 병원·약국찾기 (v1.2 loop pass 1): five name spellings plus the address and the autocomplete normalisation; no facility record under this name.) |
| 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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