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.
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 rating | 4.8 out of 5 · reviews: 20 |
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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 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. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 이홍기 (Lee Hong-ki) [site] [ksprs] | 대표원장, 성형외과 전문의 (chief director, 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 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 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).[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
| Website | https://www.imageclinic.co.kr/ |
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| Phone | 02-539-9933 |
| Address | 서울특별시 강남구 테헤란로 514, 10층 (대치동, 삼흥제2빌딩) |
| City | Seoul (Gangnam-gu, Daechi-dong) |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.imageclinic.co.kr/ | clinic's own site | institution name, address, phone, chief-director name, business registration number, treatment menu, 이용약관 / 환자의 의무와 권리 / 비보험치료안내 links | 20 September 2026 |
| site-doc | https://www.imageclinic.co.kr/contents/?curr_thread=00080002& | clinic's own site | 병원소개 / 이홍기박사 section of the site navigation | 20 September 2026 |
| ksprs | https://www.plasticsurgery.or.kr/about/hospital/search.php | secondary | POST 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 |
| hira | https://apm.hira.or.kr/search?where=ykiho&query=%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%B8%… | official register | GET facility search — 병원/약국 검색결과 2건, incl. 이미지성형외과의원, 서울특별시 강남구 테헤란로 514 10층 (대치동), ykiho 11393467 | 20 September 2026 |
| hira-detail | https://apm.hira.or.kr/mapSearch/medicalCareMedicalDetailInfoAjax?y… | official register | GET facility detail fragment — 의사수 총 1명 (의사 1), 전문과목별 성형외과 1명, 수술실 1 | 20 September 2026 |
| hometax | https://teht.hometax.go.kr/wqAction.do?actionId=ATTABZAA001R08&scre… | official register | POST JSON {"txprDscmNo":"1201103326",…} — 국세청 사업자등록상태조회 for 120-11-03326 | 20 September 2026 |
| khidi | https://www.medicalkorea.or.kr/korp/agencyStateList.do | official register | POST korName=이미지성형외과 — KHIDI 외국인환자 유치의료기관 현황조회: 총 1건 — 이미지성형외과 / 이홍기 / 025399933 / 의원 / 서울, 상태 폐업 | 20 September 2026 |
| mohw | https://www.mohw.go.kr/menu.es?mid=a10507010200 | official register | GET plain page — MOHW 명단공표 disclosure tables, read in full and searched for this institution and physician | 20 September 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 | Initial collection (v1.2 loop pass 1). |
Correction or right of reply
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