The clinic
The clinicThe rooms, in the order you walk through them.
Uvom Plastic Surgery Clinic occupies one floor on Dosan-daero in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. Photographed as it is, empty, on an ordinary day: reception, the consulting rooms, the imaging room, two operating rooms behind their own door, recovery, and the corridors between them.
- In one line
- Uvom Plastic Surgery Clinic is one floor on Dosan-daero in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, with a consulting suite, 3D CT and ultrasound, an operating centre of two theatres, and single recovery rooms.
- Whom it suits
- Patients who want to see the rooms, the hours and the route before booking, including patients travelling from abroad.
- Whom it does not
- Anyone needing inpatient care — this is a clinic, not a hospital; recovery here is measured in hours.
- What this rests on
- Photographed as the rooms are, unstaged and empty. Address, hours and contact as the clinic publishes them.
Written and medically reviewed by Dr. Jung Su Lee, M.D., Ph.D., board-certified plastic surgeon · Last checked 13 September 2026
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A small clinic built around one passage
유봄성형외과 — Uvom — opened in 1999 and has been on Dosan-daero ever since. It is one floor, not a chain and not a building: the endoscopic work that runs through the forehead, the temple and the zygoma is what the floor was laid out for, and the clinic has remained the size at which the chief surgeon still operates.
Who operates
Two chief surgeons. Dr. Jung Su Lee — endoscopic forehead lift, endoscopic malar reduction and revision rhinoplasty, and the facial foreign-body removal that grew out of them. Dr. Chang Min Kang, the clinic's second chief surgeon, practises facial foreign-body removal and endoscopic malar reduction from the same temporal approach. This site is Dr. Lee's record only; the two surgeons' publications are separate and are never added together. Who will operate is settled at the consultation, not afterwards.
What the clinic does, and what it does not take on
The three operations on the Techniques page, and the removal of material another clinic could not get out. Not body surgery, and not a first, straightforward operation that could be had closer to home — the faces that come here have usually been operated on before. Where the findings say that not operating now is the better course, that is said at the consultation rather than after a deposit.
Languages
Korean and English, as the clinic lists them. Which language a particular consultation is conducted in, and whether interpretation is arranged for another, is confirmed when the appointment is made rather than promised here.
Opening hours Mon · Wed · Fri 09:00–19:00Tue · Thu 09:00–21:00
Sat 09:00–16:00
Sun and public holidays closed Korea Standard Time, UTC+9. Surgery is not scheduled on Saturdays as a rule. Where 9F, 138 Dosan-daero
Gangnam-gu, Seoul
Republic of Korea 서울특별시 강남구 도산대로 138, 9층 — show this line to a taxi driver. Patients from outside Korea A written first reading before you fly
Examination, 3D CT and ultrasound on one floor
No agency, no commission — the fee is reduced Why this clinic is ready for it · the order it happens in. No package, no airport pickup, no promised number of days. Contact WhatsApp — for patients abroad
+82 2 545 3700
uvom@uvom.com KakaoTalk for patients in Korea. The clinic does not quote a price before the findings are read. 01 · Arrival
The door, the desk, the window
One floor, one entrance. The waiting room faces the city rather than the corridor, because most of the waiting happens before the consultation, not after it.
The room where the plan is decided
Examination, then 3D CT, and ultrasound where it is needed — all of it inside the clinic, so the findings and the consultation happen on the same visit rather than a week apart.
Two theatres, behind one door
The operating centre is a separate zone with its own entrance, its own corridor and two operating rooms. Endoscopic work needs the camera, the light source and the screen in fixed positions, and a room set up for it every time rather than converted for it.
A room of your own, afterwards
Recovery is in single rooms with a door, not in a curtained bay. A forehead lift or a malar reduction is followed by hours in which a patient would rather not be looked at.
The route matters as much as the room
A patient arriving for a consultation and a patient leaving after surgery should not have to pass each other. The corridors are laid out so that they don't.
What this floor is, and what it is not
What is here
One floor, on Dosan-daero in Gangnam-gu. A consulting suite, a 3D CT and ultrasound, an operating centre with two operating rooms behind its own door, single recovery rooms, and a procedure room for work under local anaesthesia and for follow-up dressings. Every photograph on this page is of these rooms, unstaged and empty.
What is not here
This is a clinic, not a hospital. There is no inpatient ward and no intensive care: recovery is measured in hours, and a patient who needs more than that is moved to a general hospital, by an arrangement made before the operation, which is part of what the consultation covers. General anaesthesia, sedation and the anaesthetist's role are explained case by case rather than promised on a page.
Why the rooms are arranged this way
Endoscopic work through a five-incision scalp approach needs the camera, the light source and the screen in the same places every time; the surgeon's eyes are on a monitor, not on the wound, and the team reads the same picture. That is why the theatres are fixed rather than convertible, why the screens are ceiling-mounted, and why the imaging that decides the plan sits on the same floor as the room where the plan is explained.
Book a consultation What the operations are 06 · Getting hereHow to find the ninth floor
Dosan-daero runs through Gangnam-gu from Sinsa towards Cheongdam. The clinic is at number 138, on the ninth floor, and the sign is above the lift lobby on that floor rather than on the street.
Uvom Plastic Surgery Clinic
9F, 138 Dosan-daero, Gangnam-gu
Seoul, Republic of Korea
유봄성형외과
서울특별시 강남구 도산대로 138, 9층
From Incheon Airport the journey is about seventy to ninety minutes by taxi or airport bus into Gangnam, traffic depending. The address above is the one to give a driver; the Korean line is there to be shown on a screen rather than read out.
07 · Patients from outside KoreaThirty years of operating outside Korea
What this clinic knows about operating on faces from elsewhere it learned by going there: in thirteen countries, every year since 1996.
The surgery has been done abroad, not only marketed abroad
Cleft lip and palate surgery in Da Lat, Vietnam from 1996, and since then in Uzbekistan, Laos, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Mongolia, Cambodia, Chad, Eswatini, India and Türkiye. In 2017 that work was given the main prize of the 33rd Boryung Medical Service Award — an award for volunteer surgery abroad, not a directory listing. Operating in another country, on unfamiliar faces and in unfamiliar conditions, is the training that makes a face from anywhere else an ordinary morning here rather than an exception.
The record is in English, and you can check it before you fly
Four papers indexed on PubMed, in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Journal of Stomatology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery; the method set down under its own name in an American textbook of Asian facial surgery. A patient in another country does not have to trust a translated brochure: PMIDs, the KIPO registration numbers for the instrument, and the textbook page are all on this site, and every one of them can be verified from outside Korea by someone who has never heard of this clinic.
The decision is made before the flight, not after it
A face that has been operated on before cannot be planned from photographs, but whether the journey is worth making can be settled in writing first. You send photographs and whatever records you have; you are told what the problem appears to be, what would have to be examined in person, and whether the timing is right. If the answer is that you should not fly yet, it is given before you book anything — that is the part of readiness that matters most to someone buying an aeroplane ticket.
Everything the plan needs is on one floor
Examination, 3D CT and ultrasound are in the clinic, so findings, reading and plan happen on the same visit instead of across a week of appointments. The operating centre and the recovery rooms are on the same floor, and the review visits that follow surgery are at the same desk. For a patient who has flown in, the number of separate journeys is the whole difference.
What is not claimed here
No package, no airport pickup, no hotel arrangement, no promised number of days. What a particular operation needs in the way of stay, review visits and cost is given in writing before anything is booked, and it is given for that face rather than as a tariff.
08 · If you are coming from abroadThe order it happens in
Nothing about a face that has been operated on before can be settled from photographs alone. What can be settled in advance is whether the journey is worth making, and that is what the first exchange is for.
01Write, with photographs and your history
Front, both three-quarters, both profiles, and — for a nose — a view from below, in daylight, without makeup. Say what was done before, when, where, and what was used if you know it. Operative records, CT or ultrasound from the earlier surgery are worth more than any photograph.
02A first reading, in writing
You are told whether the problem is one this clinic treats, what would have to be examined in person to plan it, and whether the timing is right — a nose whose inflammation has not settled, or a face still swollen from recent surgery, is better left alone for now. If the answer is that you should not fly, that is the answer you get.
03The consultation, in person
Examination, 3D CT, and ultrasound where the layers have been mixed by filler or fat. The findings are read with you before a plan is proposed, and the plan is explained with its limits attached. Surgery is not performed on the day of the first consultation.
04Surgery, then the days that follow
Recovery on the day is measured in hours, in a single room. Then dressings and review visits at the clinic. Plan to stay in Seoul for these rather than fly home between them; how many days a particular operation needs is given to you in writing before you book a flight.
05Afterwards, from home
Swelling and numbness resolve over months, not weeks, and the questions arrive during that time rather than before it. Follow-up continues by message, with photographs, and a review visit is arranged if something needs to be seen rather than described.
Fees are quoted after the findings are read, never before, and the quotation says what is and is not included. All surgery carries the possibility of side effects and complications; these are explained at the consultation, and results differ between individuals.
09 · BookingStart on WhatsApp
For patients outside Korea, WhatsApp is the route: it carries the photographs and the records, it keeps the whole exchange in one thread, and the time difference stops mattering. Write in English; you will be answered during clinic hours in Seoul.
Message the clinic on WhatsApp KakaoTalk · for patients in Korea uvom@uvom.comWhat to include in the first message: what you would like changed, what has been done to your face before and when, and the photographs listed above. A one-line enquiry gets a one-line answer; a message with the history in it gets a reading.
9F, 138 Dosan-daero, Gangnam-gu.
Uvom Plastic Surgery Clinic, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Consultations are by appointment; the first one takes examination, imaging and an explanation, and nothing is booked on the day unless the patient asks for it.
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