If you are researching surgery in Seoul from abroad, you eventually stop reading about procedures and start trying to work out whether a specific clinic is one you would actually trust with your face. That is a harder question, because most of what is published about any Korean clinic is written either by the clinic itself or by someone earning a referral fee. This page is a plain profile of one clinic, Link Plastic Surgery in Sinnonhyeon, Seoul: who operates, what it does and does not perform, how it handles international patients, and what its consultation and deposit policy actually is. It also sets out the checks worth running on any Seoul clinic, including this one, because the point is not to take anyone’s word for it.
Link Plastic Surgery is a board-certified plastic surgery clinic in Gangnam, Seoul, run by two co-founding surgeons who operate on their own patients. Its published scope covers eye surgery, rhinoplasty, body procedures, and non-surgical treatments. Consultation is a paid service for all procedures, deposits are handled by PayPal for international patients, and video consultation is available before you travel. The checks below apply to any Seoul clinic you are considering.
Link Plastic Surgery at a Glance
The clinic is located on the fourth floor of the Jewoo Building at 478 Gangnam-daero, Gangnam-gu, about a minute from Sinnonhyeon Station Exit 3 on Line 9. That matters more than it sounds for a foreign patient: Gangnam is where the density of clinics, and of post-operative follow-up options, is highest, and being on a subway line you will actually use during recovery is a practical convenience rather than a marketing point.
It is co-founded and run by two surgeons, Dr. Sung Ha Min and Dr. Jung Min Su, both board-certified plastic surgeons with doctoral degrees. Per the clinic’s published information, Dr. Sung’s practice covers body procedures including belly button surgery, breast surgery and liposuction alongside eye and nose surgery, while Dr. Jung’s covers eye surgery, rhinoplasty, breast surgery and non-surgical treatments such as thread lifting and fat grafting. Both hold appointments as adjunct professors at Gangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, and Dr. Jung trained in craniofacial surgery at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan. Between them they have published in peer-reviewed journals including Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Scientific Reports.
What Link Plastic Surgery Does, and What It Does Not
The published scope covers four areas: eye surgery (double eyelid, epicanthoplasty, blepharoplasty, under-eye fat repositioning, eyelid fat removal, and eye revision), rhinoplasty (including revision rhinoplasty and alar reduction), body surgery (belly button surgery, breast surgery, liposuction, abdominoplasty), and non-surgical treatments (thread lifting, facial fat grafting, skin boosters such as Rejuran and exosome, and energy-based devices including HIFU, RF and fractional lasers).
Just as useful is what is absent. The clinic does not perform facial bone contouring, which means no zygoma reduction, no jaw angle or V-line bone surgery, and no two-jaw surgery. It also does not perform hair transplantation. If your goal is bone-level facial contouring, this is not the clinic for it, and knowing that before you fly saves a wasted trip. A clinic with a defined scope is generally a better sign than one that lists every procedure imaginable, but it only helps you if you check the scope against what you actually want.
The Checks Worth Running on Any Seoul Clinic
These apply to every clinic you shortlist, this one included. First, who operates. Ask directly whether the surgeon you consult with is the surgeon who will perform the procedure, and get it in writing. The practice of an unnamed substitute operating in place of the consulted doctor is the single most serious risk in Korean cosmetic surgery, and the only reliable protection is a named surgeon on the consent form. Second, board certification specifically in plastic surgery, which is not the same as being a licensed physician. Third, a written quote before any payment, itemized rather than a package headline.
Fourth, the aftercare plan for the weeks after you fly home: who you contact, on what channel, and what they need from you. Fifth, and least measurable but most telling, how the clinic answers a hard question. Ask what could go wrong, what the revision policy is, or why they are recommending something you did not ask for. A clinic that answers those plainly is behaving differently from one that redirects to price. Our fuller clinic verification guide goes through each of these in more depth, and our list of consultation red flags covers what a bad answer looks like.
How Link Plastic Surgery Handles International Patients
The starting point is a message rather than a booking. You contact the clinic through WhatsApp, Kakao, LINE, or the enquiry form with a short description of what you are considering and photographs, and a coordinator replies with next steps, deposit details, and a proposed date. English-language support runs through this coordinator channel, which is the practical answer to the language question: you are not relying on the surgeon’s English alone.
Before you travel, video consultation over Zoom is available. This is genuinely useful for a foreign patient, because it lets a surgeon look at your case and tell you whether what you want is realistic before you have bought a plane ticket. The clinic asks for photographs, medical history, and your goals in advance so the call is substantive rather than introductory. Recommended length of stay varies sharply by procedure, from a couple of days for non-surgical work up to seven to fourteen days for body surgery, and the clinic advises confirming your specific duration before booking flights.
Consultation Fees and Deposits, Stated Plainly
Consultation is a paid service for all procedures, including the video consultation, with current fees confirmed through the clinic’s official messenger. Bookings require a deposit, paid by PayPal for international patients; bank wire is not supported. The exact amount and payee details come from the coordinator at the time of booking. Same-day cancellation, or missing a confirmed appointment time, is treated as a forfeited slot and cannot be rebooked, because slots are held individually.
It is worth being direct about why a paid consultation is not a red flag. A clinic with no fee and no deposit has no cost attached to a no-show, which in practice means its calendar is filled with people who may not turn up, and the patients who do turn up are absorbing the cost of that. A clinic that charges for consultation is making a different trade: fewer, more committed bookings, and a slot that is genuinely reserved for you. It is a reasonable structure, and the thing to check is not whether a fee exists but whether the amount and terms are told to you clearly before you pay. On cost more broadly, note that from 2026 the foreigner VAT refund on cosmetic procedures in Korea has ended, so budget roughly ten percent above what older guides quote.
Where This Leaves You
Nothing above substitutes for your own assessment. What a profile like this can reasonably do is tell you the scope, the structure, and the policy, so that you can decide whether a clinic is worth a consultation rather than discovering the basics after you have paid a deposit. Results in cosmetic surgery vary between individuals, and whether any given procedure suits you is a judgment made in consultation against your own anatomy, not something that can be settled from a webpage. A surgeon telling you that a procedure you want is not right for you is the system working, not a sales failure.
If the scope matches what you are considering and you want to test it, the practical next step is a consultation, which for international patients can happen over video before you commit to travel. To see the procedure pages and start that process, visit Link Plastic Surgery’s international patient guide, or read the surgeons’ full credentials. Whatever you decide, run the six checks above on every clinic on your list.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Where is Link Plastic Surgery located?
It is on the fourth floor of the Jewoo Building at 478 Gangnam-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, roughly a minute’s walk from Sinnonhyeon Station Exit 3 on Line 9. Being in Gangnam and directly on a subway line matters practically for follow-up visits during recovery, when you may be travelling to the clinic several times over a week or two.
2. Who performs the surgery at Link Plastic Surgery?
The clinic is co-founded and run by two board-certified plastic surgeons, Dr. Sung Ha Min and Dr. Jung Min Su, who operate on their own patients. As with any clinic, confirm this directly at consultation and ask that the operating surgeon be named on your consent form. That written confirmation is the standard protection against an unnamed substitute operating in place of the doctor you consulted, and you should ask for it everywhere, not only here.
3. What procedures does Link Plastic Surgery perform?
Four areas: eye surgery (double eyelid, epicanthoplasty, blepharoplasty, under-eye fat repositioning, eyelid fat removal, revision), rhinoplasty including revision and alar reduction, body surgery (belly button, breast, liposuction, abdominoplasty), and non-surgical treatments (thread lifting, fat grafting, skin boosters, HIFU, RF and fractional lasers). It does not perform facial bone contouring such as zygoma reduction, V-line or two-jaw surgery, and does not perform hair transplantation.
4. Is consultation free?
No. Consultation is a paid service for all procedures, including video consultation, and current fees are confirmed through the clinic’s official messenger. A consultation fee is not unusual and is not a warning sign in itself; what matters is that the amount and terms are stated clearly before you pay. Ask for the figure in writing when you first make contact.
5. How does the deposit work for international patients?
International patients pay the deposit by PayPal; bank wire transfer is not supported. The exact amount and payee information are sent by your coordinator at the time of booking. Note that same-day cancellation, or being unreachable at your confirmed time, is treated as a forfeited slot and cannot be rebooked, since appointment slots are held for individual patients.
6. Does Link Plastic Surgery have English-language support?
Yes. Contact runs through a coordinator via WhatsApp, Kakao, LINE, or the enquiry form, with a reply typically within 24 hours, and that coordinator channel is where English support sits. For international patients this is the practical answer to the language question, because your consultation, scheduling, and post-operative questions all route through a channel staffed for it rather than depending on the surgeon’s English alone.
7. Can I consult before flying to Korea?
Yes. Video consultation over Zoom is available and is a paid service. The clinic asks for photographs, medical history, and your goals in advance so the call is substantive. This is worth doing before booking flights, because it is where a surgeon can tell you whether what you want is realistic for your anatomy, or whether the procedure you are asking for is the wrong one for the result you described.
8. How long should I plan to stay in Seoul?
It varies sharply by procedure: non-surgical treatments may need only a day or two, eye surgery around five to seven days for suture removal, rhinoplasty seven to ten days for cast removal, and body surgery seven to fourteen days for drain and suture management plus the first follow-up. Combined procedures need longer. Confirm your specific duration with the clinic before booking flights rather than working from a general figure.
9. How do I verify a Seoul clinic before booking?
Run six checks on every clinic you shortlist. Confirm who operates and get the surgeon named on the consent form; confirm board certification specifically in plastic surgery; get a written itemized quote before paying anything; confirm the aftercare plan for after you fly home; and pay attention to how the clinic answers a hard question about risks or revisions. Apply these to this clinic as much as to any other.
10. Can I be sure a procedure will suit me?
Not from reading. Results vary between individuals, and whether a given procedure suits you depends on your anatomy, your skin, and your goals, which is a judgment made at consultation. A useful consultation sometimes ends with a surgeon recommending a different procedure than the one you asked for, or recommending against surgery altogether. Treat that as the process working. To start that conversation, visit Link Plastic Surgery’s official website.
This profile is compiled from Link Plastic Surgery’s own published materials (clinic website, surgeon credentials, and stated international patient policy) as of 2026, together with general guidance on verifying Korean clinics. It is not an independent audit or an endorsement, and policies and fees can change. Confirm all current details, including consultation fees and deposit terms, directly with the clinic before booking. Individual results vary.