🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea · est. 1994

Samsung Medical Center

Samsung Medical Center is a large tertiary teaching hospital in Seoul with over a thousand doctors and millions of patient visits a year, recognized as one of Asia's largest cancer centers. For medical tourists it offers comprehensive health-screening packages and advanced diagnostics alongside oncology, cardiology and transplant care.

Health screening
Oncology
Cardiology
Transplantology

Researched & fact-checked by the MedTraveling editorial teamLast reviewed 21 June 20261 sourced referenceNo rankings or leads sold

Provider / aggregator

Known for

◆Comprehensive health check-ups
◆Cancer screening

Accreditation & verification

Accreditation is facility-level and time-bound. Where a public registry exists, we link straight to it so you can confirm currency yourself.

Korean Institute for Healthcare Accreditation

Corroborated

No public registry mapped — confirm currency directly with the issuer.

Newsweek World's Best Hospitals listing

Newsweek

Reported

No public registry mapped — confirm currency directly with the issuer.

Facility & infrastructure

Verifiable scale and equipment signals — what a brochure rarely lets you compare.

Facility & infrastructure

Beds: 1,979
Patients / year: 2,112,419

Reported source

Published prices

Provider-published figures. Not personalised quotes — confirm inclusions directly.

Provider	Published price (USD)	Typically includes	Source
Health Screening (Executive Check-up)	$712–$4,943	check-up through premium check-up packages	Corroborated
IVF (In Vitro Fertilisation)	$9,700–$15,400	treatment	Reported

What's in the package

Typically included

✓Surgery / procedure fee

Usually excluded

×Flights

Procedures offered

Languages

Korean · English

Sources

Every claim on this profile traces to a public source, with its confidence level.

Samsung Medical Center — Bookimed clinic profileCorroborated

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MedTraveling Transparency Index

45/ 100

Limited transparency

Several checkable signals are missing — verify carefully.

56% of checkable signals present

This is a transparency measure — how much about Samsung Medical Center is publicly checkable — not a clinical-quality verdict. Each dimension is explained, with its limitation.

Pricing transparency

Whether prices are published, with inclusions/exclusions and how many procedures are quoted. — Published ranges are not personalised quotes.

Clinician transparency

Whether named surgeons are listed and their society memberships disclosed. — A named, credentialed surgeon is not a measure of individual skill.

Accreditation & verifiability

Whether accreditation is held and traceable to a public verification registry. — Accreditation is facility-level and time-bound — confirm currency directly.

Independent evidence

Count and diversity of independent (non-provider) sources behind the profile. — Thin coverage lowers confidence — it is not a verdict on quality.

International support

Breadth of languages supported for cross-border patients. — Stated language support is not a guarantee of service.

Outcome reporting

Whether the provider publishes any outcome or complication data. — Almost no provider reports this — its absence is itself the signal.

Independent reputation

4.5/ 5

23 reviews on Bookimed

Reported

Patient opinion, not clinical outcome evidence — and deliberately kept out of the Transparency Index. We show the source so you can judge it yourself.

What's missing

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!No named surgeons
!Accreditation not traceable to a public registry
!No published outcome or complication data