Korean Umbilicoplasty: The 4 Belly Button Types and Which Surgery Each One Needs

Before-and-after of an East Asian woman three months after Korean umbilicoplasty showing a wide hooded belly button refined to a narrow vertical slit shape

Search ‘Korean belly button surgery’ and every result shows the same final photo — small, vertical, slightly hooded. The reason every patient ends up with a similar look is not because Korean surgeons do one signature procedure. It’s because they do four very different procedures depending on what your starting belly button actually looks like.