About
About Visit Korea Medical
An English visitor handbook for Korea medical tourism — operated by a KHIDI-registered facilitator since 2026.
Visit Korea Medical is an English-language visitor handbook built for international patients planning a medical-tourism trip to Korea. Where most Korea-side directories assume the visitor has already chosen a city and a clinic, this handbook starts from the trip itself: visa eligibility, flight and airport transit, hotels and accommodation, Seoul and inter-city transit, treatment platforms, aftercare across the 30-day window, and the practical realities of moving between airport, hotel, and clinic with limited Korean. The handbook is written entirely in English with global readers in mind — Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, the United States, Europe, and the Gulf — and every page signposts to the specialised editorial archives we operate alongside this handbook for deeper coverage.
Who operates this handbook
Visit Korea Medical is operated by HEIM GLOBAL, a Seoul-based medical-tourism facilitator registered with the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) under registration number A-2026-04-02-06873. Our business registration number is 405-04-54000, and our operations are subject to Article 56 (4) of the Medical Service Act covering foreign-patient attraction. Editorial decisions on this site are made by our internal editorial board with named contributing editors who also write for our specialised treatment archives.
How this handbook differs from a clinic directory
Most Korean medical-tourism websites are organised around clinics — clinic A, clinic B, clinic C, with treatment information attached. Visit Korea Medical is organised around the visitor's actual sequence: which city, what visa, where to stay, how to move between airport and clinic, what treatments make sense for what trip length, and how aftercare works once the patient is back in their own country. Clinic-level coverage exists, but it sits inside the visitor's logistical frame rather than driving it. The deeper clinic-by-clinic coverage is on our specialised publisher archives, which are linked from the relevant pages.
Editorial team and contributing editors
Day-to-day editorial work is performed by an internal editorial board operating under the HEIM GLOBAL banner. Contributing editors with bylines on this site also write for our specialised treatment and regional archives — including the stem-cell archive, the Ultherapy and Ultherapy PRIME archive, the Sofwave and Thermage archives, and the Myeongdong, Incheon Airport, Seoul-wide, and Korea-wide editorial publications. Each contributing editor is profiled on their author page, with cross-references to the archive where they publish in greater depth.
Commercial disclosure
Visit Korea Medical is a commercial publication operated by a registered medical-tourism facilitator. Some outbound links — including coordinator links — are commercial referrals. Editorial inclusion is independent of commercial relationships, but readers should treat featured-clinic shortlists as informed editorial picks rather than ranked rankings. Where we publish a side-by-side comparison, we use named criteria documented in our editorial policy. We do not publish ordinal rankings (no "#1 best clinic" headlines).
Frequently asked questions
Is Visit Korea Medical a clinic?
No. Visit Korea Medical is an English-language visitor handbook operated by HEIM GLOBAL, a KHIDI-registered medical-tourism facilitator. We do not provide medical services ourselves — we publish editorial coverage and connect international patients with named Korean clinics.
Do you charge international patients to use this site?
No. Reading the handbook and contacting clinics is free for patients. HEIM GLOBAL operates as a registered facilitator under standard Korean medical-tourism regulation and may receive referral fees from clinics where commercial relationships exist; these are disclosed in our editorial policy.
Do you book hotels or flights for visitors?
No. We are an editorial publisher, not a travel agency. We provide reference information on neighbourhoods, hotels-near-clinics, transit, and airport transfer; visitors book travel themselves through standard channels (Booking, Agoda, Korea-side hotel chains, KAMI airport pickup).
How do I verify your KHIDI registration?
Our registration number A-2026-04-02-06873 is searchable on the KHIDI international medical-services portal at khidi.or.kr. Our business registration 405-04-54000 is registered under Korean tax authority records.