South Korea continues to be a Mecca for lovers of plastic surgery not only from this country but from other States. Last year for plastic surgery in Korea came to more than 50 000 foreigners.
About 50,000 foreigners visited in the 2017/18 year South Korea to conduct plastic surgeryto which they spent about 215 billion won, which is $180 million. These figures are official government statistics. It is possible to judge that the number of foreigners who passed through the plastic in Korea last year, was almost four times higher than in 2012. However, the total number of foreigners who visited South Korea for holding all kinds of medical treatment compared to 2016/17 years decreased by 6.5%.
Statistics shows that the share of plastic surgeries accounted for 33.6% of all accounts that foreigners paid in medical institutions. Approximately 23.2% of foreigners visited the clinic of cosmetic and dermatology in 2017. Of all plastic surgeries the most expensive was the correction of the jaw – the average check amounted to 17 million won. To other expensive procedures include breast augmentation (9.2 million), liposuction (5.6 million) and rhinoplasty (5.3 million). Many patients also passed through the forming of the second century (the average check – 2,2 million). This operation is resorted to people of Asian descent who wish to have more European eyes.
Foreigners visited Korean hospitals and to conduct nekomercheskoy operations, among which the most costly was a knee replacement (2.9 million won), and the average bill for the services of neurosurgeons in South Korea amounted to 1.95 million foreigners In General, last year, all medical clinics in South Korea visited 397 882 foreign citizen. (READ MORE)