What does medical care cost in Korea?
Official prices that Korean hospitals report to the government for treatments health insurance doesn’t cover — LASIK, dental implants, vaccines, MRI scans, medical certificates and more. In English, with the Korean words to use at the hospital.
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Eyes & vision
Dental
Hair
Vaccines
- Shingles vaccinemedian ₩250,000 per dose · Shingrix
- HPV vaccinemedian ₩220,000 per dose · Gardasil 9 (prefilled syringe)
- Flu shotmedian ₩40,000 per dose · Fluarix Tetra
- Hepatitis A vaccinemedian ₩70,000 per dose · Vaqta prefilled 1.0 mL (adult)
- Hepatitis B vaccinemedian ₩30,000 per dose · Euvax B prefilled 1.0 mL
- Tdap & Td vaccine (tetanus)median ₩50,000 per dose · Tdap — Boostrix (prefilled syringe)
- Pneumococcal vaccinemedian ₩130,000 per dose · Prevenar 13
- Typhoid vaccinemedian ₩30,000 per dose · Zerotyph (injection)
- Japanese encephalitis vaccinemedian ₩40,990 per dose · Boryung cell-culture JE vaccine 0.7 mL
- MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella)median ₩30,000 per dose · M-M-R II
- Chickenpox (varicella) vaccinemedian ₩35,000 per dose · SKYVaricella
- Meningococcal vaccinemedian ₩150,000 per dose · Menveo (MenACWY)
Medical documents
Scans & tests
Pregnancy & fertility
Pain & rehab
Procedures & surgery
- Uterine fibroid treatment (HIFU, RFA)median ₩7,500,000 · Ultrasound-guided HIFU (fibroids, adenomyosis)
- Varicose vein treatmentmedian ₩1,458,700 · Cyanoacrylate (glue) closure
- Robotic surgery (da Vinci)median ₩12,000,000 · Thyroid cancer surgery
- Underarm sweat & odour surgerymedian ₩1,447,000
- Nail fungus laser treatmentmedian ₩100,000
Hospital stay
No treatment matches. Try a simpler word, such as “eye” or “tooth”.
How to read these prices
Every Korean hospital must report what it charges for treatments that National Health Insurance does not cover (비급여, bigeubyeo). The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA) publishes them, and ClinicSum turns the open data into English pages. Each page shows the median price — the middle hospital — plus the average, the lowest and the highest, by kind of hospital and by region.
The open data covers hospitals, not small neighbourhood clinics (의원). To check one particular clinic, follow our step-by-step guide to HIRA’s search. New to the Korean system? Start with how medical prices work in Korea.
ClinicSum does not rank or recommend hospitals and is not medical advice.