Korea Beauty Clinic Rating Structural Verification Index — aesthetic medicine & plastic surgery
By procedure: Rhinoplasty Breast surgery Liposuction & body contouring Hair transplant Injectables Medical weight loss

이미지성형외과의원 (Image Plastic Surgery)

Under our open methodology this clinic scores 85.7/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.

Rank #2 of 20 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026

No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.

85.7/100
coverage 92% (threshold 75%)

Summary

Single-physician plastic surgery clinic on Teheran-ro in Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, focused on breast surgery. The chief director is listed in the national plastic-surgery specialist society directory at this address, and the government facility register records one plastic-surgery specialist and one operating theatre. The clinic publishes an active business registration number and a patient rights and duties page; its foreign-patient registration is recorded as lapsed.

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 rating4.8 out of 5 · reviews: 20
Opening hours as published on the listing
  • Monday: 09:30–19:00
  • Tuesday: 09:30–19:00
  • Wednesday: 09:30–19:00
  • Thursday: 09:30–19:00
  • Friday: 09:30–19:00
  • Saturday: 09:30–15:00
  • Sunday: Closed
Open the listing on Google MapsGoogle 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

AxisFinding (rubric anchor)ValueSource classWeightChecked
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 대한성형외과학회 전문의 찾기 강남구 지역검색(전 페이지 순회, 총 766명)에 이홍기 전문의가 이 주소(테헤란로 514)로 등재; HIRA 이미지성형외과의원 시설상세: 의사수 총 1명, 전문과목별 성형외과 전문의 1명.
? ? 26 2026-09-20
M2 Identifiability of the responsible physician
Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address.
홈페이지 전 페이지 푸터에 "대표원장 이홍기"가 병원명·주소와 함께 표기되고, 병원소개 메뉴에도 해당 원장의 소개 항목이 있음. [site]
SEC 16 2026-09-20
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 (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 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.
HIRA 시설 상세정보(이미지성형외과의원, ykiho 11393467): 명칭·주소(테헤란로 514, 10층 대치동)·상태가 홈페이지 표기와 일치. [hira] [hira-detail]
OFF 10 2026-09-20
M5 Legal-entity traceability
The legal entity and its registration number are published by the clinic and matched in the register.
국세청 사업자등록상태조회(txprDscmNo=1201103326): 등록되어 있는 사업자등록번호, 부가가치세 일반과세자. 번호는 홈페이지 하단(전 페이지 공통 푸터)에 공개되어 있음. [site] [hometax]
OFF 8 2026-09-20
M6 Self-disclosure of identifiers
Partial, without issuers.
사업자등록번호와 대표원장명, 병원명, 주소가 홈페이지 푸터에 공개되어 있으나 발급기관 표기가 없고, 의사면허번호나 의료기관 개설신고번호는 공개되지 않음. [site]
SEC 10 2026-09-20
M7 Advertising honesty
No pattern from the lexicon found.
Lexicon scan completed on 2026-09-20 over the home page, 병원소개, a doctor page and a procedure page: no superlative, ranking, guarantee or "100 %"-class pattern found in the clinic’s own text. [site] [site-doc]
SEC 12 2026-09-20
M8 Cross-locale consistency
Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front.
Last attempt: clinic_site, 20 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.
Presence check completed on 2026-09-20 over the home page, 병원소개, a doctor page and a procedure page: one of the five document classes is published — a patient rights and duties page (환자의 의무와 권리) that carries the complaint route; informed consent, risks, aftercare and a revision policy are not published. [site]
SEC 5 2026-09-20

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 contactverified 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 physicianverified yes [site]
Names a responsible physicianverified 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.

PhysicianRoleRegister ID
이홍기 (Lee Hong-ki) [site] [ksprs]대표원장, 성형외과 전문의 (chief director, plastic-surgery specialist)not published

Legal entity: 이미지성형외과의원 · 120-11-03326 [site] [hometax]

Scope and procedure segments

Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]

  • Rhinoplasty: verified yes →
  • Breast surgery: verified yes →
  • Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
  • 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)): not found in the register [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 SEC
    Listed 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).
    [ksprs] [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

Websitehttps://www.imageclinic.co.kr/
Phone02-539-9933
Address서울특별시 강남구 테헤란로 514, 10층 (대치동, 삼흥제2빌딩)
CitySeoul (Gangnam-gu, Daechi-dong)

For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.

Sources

IDSourceClassWhat it supportsAccessed
sitehttps://www.imageclinic.co.kr/clinic's own siteinstitution name, address, phone, chief-director name, business registration number, treatment menu, 이용약관 / 환자의 의무와 권리 / 비보험치료안내 links20 September 2026
site-dochttps://www.imageclinic.co.kr/contents/?curr_thread=00080002&clinic's own site병원소개 / 이홍기박사 section of the site navigation20 September 2026
ksprshttps://www.plasticsurgery.or.kr/about/hospital/search.phpsecondaryPOST https://www.plasticsurgery.or.kr/about/hospital/search.php body: local= country= limit=10 get_page=1..77 keyword=addr1 key=강남구 — 대한성형외과학회 전문의 찾기, complete paged region sweep listing "이미지 성형외과 | 이홍기 | 개인병원 | 02-539-9933 | 서울시 강남구 테헤란로 514, 삼흥빌딩 10층 (대치동)"20 September 2026
hirahttps://apm.hira.or.kr/search?where=ykiho&query=%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%B8%…official registerGET facility search — 병원/약국 검색결과 2건, incl. 이미지성형외과의원, 서울특별시 강남구 테헤란로 514 10층 (대치동), ykiho 1139346720 September 2026
hira-detailhttps://apm.hira.or.kr/mapSearch/medicalCareMedicalDetailInfoAjax?y…official registerGET facility detail fragment — 의사수 총 1명 (의사 1), 전문과목별 성형외과 1명, 수술실 120 September 2026
hometaxhttps://teht.hometax.go.kr/wqAction.do?actionId=ATTABZAA001R08&scre…official registerPOST JSON {"txprDscmNo":"1201103326",…} — 국세청 사업자등록상태조회 for 120-11-0332620 September 2026
khidihttps://www.medicalkorea.or.kr/korp/agencyStateList.doofficial registerPOST korName=이미지성형외과 — KHIDI 외국인환자 유치의료기관 현황조회: 총 1건 — 이미지성형외과 / 이홍기 / 025399933 / 의원 / 서울, 상태 폐업20 September 2026
mohwhttps://www.mohw.go.kr/menu.es?mid=a10507010200official registerGET plain page — MOHW 명단공표 disclosure tables, read in full and searched for this institution and physician20 September 2026

Change history

DateChange
22 September 2026axes.M1: 5 → null (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § C class closed in the record's jurisdiction)
20 September 2026Initial collection (v1.2 loop pass 1).

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