Editorial
Commercial DisclosureHow Skin Clinic Korea Handles Money and Clinic Relationships
Skin Clinic Korea is an independent information site about Korean aesthetic medicine. Our pages mention clinics, devices, products and treatments because they are relevant to a topic, not because anyone paid for the mention.
This page explains where money does and does not come into our work, so you can weigh what you read with that in mind.
No Payments From Clinics
We do not receive referral fees, commissions or any other payment from clinics for listings, rankings, clinic matching or patient referrals. Our clinic matching help is free for patients, and clinics do not pay to be part of it.
A Mention Is Not an Endorsement
A clinic might appear on our site because it’s relevant to a research topic, part of a market comparison, publicly visible in the Korean market, or simply mentioned as an example. None of those reasons should be read as a medical recommendation.
Listing Does Not Mean Ranking
A clinic showing up on our site doesn’t mean it’s the best, the safest, the most experienced, the most suitable, or medically superior to another clinic. Where we do compare clinics, it’s worth considering the actual criteria and context behind that comparison: a comparison isn’t automatically a ranking.
No Paid Placement
Clinics cannot buy a listing, a higher position, a featured spot or a more favourable description on this site. If that ever changed, we would say so on this page before any such arrangement began.
Clinic Matching and Referrals
When we help a visitor find clinics to contact, the clinic the visitor chooses does not pay us, and we take no share of treatment fees. The clinics we suggest are not chosen on the basis of any payment.
Price Information
Clinic prices can change frequently. A price shown on our site might reflect publicly advertised pricing, an observed promotion, a reported price, researched market pricing, or an estimated range. Where we show a price, we say where it came from and when it was observed, and it shouldn’t be treated as a guaranteed quote. Before making a purchase or treatment decision, confirm the current price and conditions directly with the clinic.
Clinic Claims
Clinics share information about their treatments, technology, providers, experience, pricing, patient services, and results, and we may include relevant provider-reported information where it’s useful. But a provider’s own statement stays a provider’s statement unless something independent backs it up: appearing on a clinic’s website doesn’t turn a commercial claim into an independent medical conclusion.
Reviews and Patient Experiences
Patient reviews can genuinely help with understanding communication, convenience, wait times, clinic environment, perceived experience, and customer service. We don’t treat them as proof of medical effectiveness or clinical superiority.
Editorial Independence
Because we take no payment from clinics, no clinic relationship shapes our factual descriptions, research conclusions, comparison criteria, treatment explanations, or how we assess medical evidence. When something can’t be independently verified, we say so rather than presenting it as established fact.
Corrections and Changes
Clinic information, prices, and treatment offerings all change over time, and we update information to reflect that where it’s relevant. If we spot an important factual error, we correct it.
Our Core Principle
We think commercial transparency is part of responsible publishing. Readers should be able to tell information apart from analysis, a provider’s claim apart from a patient’s experience, and a clinic’s own advertising apart from independent evidence. A clinic being visible, on our site or anywhere else, is never a medical endorsement.
Our purpose is to help international visitors understand Korean aesthetic medicine: not to tell them which treatment or provider to choose.