브이아이피(VIP)성형외과의원 (VIP Plastic Surgery)
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 75.8/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #12 of 20 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Foreign-patient ready
Summary
Plastic surgery clinic in Yeon-dong, Jeju City, working with international patients as well as local ones. Its chief director is listed in the national plastic-surgery specialist society directory, and the government facility register records three plastic-surgery specialists, one anaesthesiology specialist and one operating theatre at the address. The clinic is registered with the national foreign-patient programme and publishes an active business registration number on both its Korean and its English front.
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 | 4.9 out of 5 · reviews: 420 |
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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 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)에서 이명주 전문의 확인 — 학회 명부 주소는 이전 소재지(서울 강남구 논현로 832); HIRA 브이아이피(VIP)성형외과의원 시설상세: 의사수 총 4명, 전문과목별 성형외과 전문의 3명. |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-09-20 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. 국문 홈페이지에 "VIP성형외과 대표원장 이명주 원장"으로 직함이 명시되고, 푸터의 병원명·주소·대표자명(이명주)과 일치. [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(브이아이피(VIP)성형외과의원, ykiho 39309398): 명칭·주소(제주시 은남1길 46, 3~4층 연동)·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 대표자명, 병원명, 주소가 국문·영문 사이트 푸터에 공개되어 있으나 발급기관 표기가 없고, 의사면허번호나 의료기관 개설신고번호는 공개되지 않음. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Systematic superlatives; systematic safety promises without an absolute; absolutes about the past (success rates, “no infection since …”, satisfaction figures, “we guarantee your satisfaction”); comparisons with surgery. Lexicon scan completed on 2026-09-20 over the Korean front and the English front: the Korean pages carry no lexicon pattern, while the English front opens on a ranking claim about the named physician with no issuer, quoted below, and repeats top-of-class wording elsewhere on the page; no outcome or safety guarantee and no "100 %"-class statement. [site] [site-en] The Best Plastic Surgeon in Korea |
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. |
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] |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 이명주 (Lee Myung-ju) [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 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).[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.vipps.kr/ |
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| Phone | 064-713-1007 |
| Address | 제주특별자치도 제주시 은남1길 46, 3~4층 (연동) |
| City | Jeju (Jeju-si) |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.vipps.kr/ | clinic's own site | institution name, address, phone, representative name, business registration number, treatment menu, clinic news | 20 September 2026 |
| site-en | https://www.vippskorea.com/ | clinic's own site | English front of the same clinic (same business registration number 841-58-00455 in the footer) — physician presentation and advertising text | 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 "VIP 성형외과 | 이명주 | 개인병원 | 02-514-1007 | 서울시 강남구 논현로 832 (신사동)" | 20 September 2026 |
| hira | https://apm.hira.or.kr/search?where=ykiho&query=%EB%B8%8C%EC%9D%B4%… | official register | GET facility search — 병원/약국 검색결과 6건, incl. 브이아이피(VIP)성형외과의원, 제주특별자치도 제주시 은남1길 46 3~4층 (연동), ykiho 39309398 | 20 September 2026 |
| hira-detail | https://apm.hira.or.kr/mapSearch/medicalCareMedicalDetailInfoAjax?y… | official register | GET facility detail fragment — 의사수 총 4명 (의사 4), 전문과목별 성형외과 3명 / 마취통증의학과 1명, 수술실 1 | 20 September 2026 |
| hometax | https://teht.hometax.go.kr/wqAction.do?actionId=ATTABZAA001R08&scre… | official register | POST JSON {"txprDscmNo":"8415800455",…} — 국세청 사업자등록상태조회 for 841-58-00455 | 20 September 2026 |
| khidi | https://www.medicalkorea.or.kr/korp/agencyStateList.do | official register | POST korName=브이아이피 — KHIDI 외국인환자 유치의료기관 현황조회: 총 11건 — 브이아이피(VIP)성형외과의원 / 이명주 / 064-713-1007 / 의원 / 제주, 상태 유지 | 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). |
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