Best Examination of eyes Clinics in Republic of Korea: 4 Top-Rated Centers

BGN Eye Hospital is a Busan-based eye center with over 346,000 vision correction surgeries since 2000. Specializes in Lasik, SMILE PRO, ICL implantation, and cataract treatment. Awarded by Carl Zeiss for laser surgery quality and named Best Hospital for ICL by STAAR.

• SMILE PRO uses the VISUMAX 800 femtosecond laser – the femto laser takes just 10 seconds.
• Slim Fit Lasik makes a precise incision up to 0.08 mm thick. Slim Fit Lasek serves patients with thinned corneas.
• ICL uses a collamer lens through a 0.36 mm micro-incision. The lens is designed to last a lifetime.
• Cataract surgery uses phacoemulsification with Catalys laser, guided by a 3D map of the eye.
• International patients get free 1-day hotel for surgery, free translators, and paid airport transfers.

Myongji Hospital is a multidisciplinary general hospital located in Goyang, South Korea, approximately 30 minutes from Seoul. The hospital provides medical services across a wide range of specialties, including cardiology and cardiac surgery, oncology, orthopedics, organ transplantation, urology, liver diseases, women's health, robotic surgery, hair transplantation, and health check-ups.

The hospital treats about 600,000 patients a year. It also operates an International Healthcare Center that assists overseas patients with appointment coordination, interpretation, medical consultations, treatment support, and follow-up care.

Gangnam Severance Hospital is a JCI-accredited university hospital in Seoul's Gangnam district. It was the first in South Korea to perform a lung transplant. The hospital's core strengths are oncology, neurosurgery, neurology, cardiology, and comprehensive health check-ups.

• First in Asia to use the da Vinci Robotic System for minimally invasive surgeries.
• Neurosurgery department performs 1,300 surgeries per year. Spinal team has done over 700 scoliosis operations, the most in South Korea.
• Cardiology team carries out around 1,000 coronarographies and 800 stentings each year.
• Two Tomotherapy devices deliver highly accurate radiation for prostate, brain, and spine cancers.
• Five check-up programs, from Basic to VIP. Free interpreter services and airport transfer for bills over $4,400.

Smile Eye Clinic Korea is an ophthalmology center in Seoul's Gangnam district. The clinic specializes in vision correction and cataract surgery. It offers SMILE Pro, SMILE LASIK, and 2DAY LASEK. The team also performs EVO ICL lens implantation for high myopia, correcting vision up to -18.0 D.

Founded over 15 years ago, the clinic is led by four senior surgeons. They have decades of combined experience and over 70,000 vision-correction cases. The clinic received an award for reaching 3 million EVO ICL implantations.

Surgeons use the ATOS femtosecond laser with the CenTrax workflow for SMILE Pro. ZEISS diagnostic systems map the eye before surgery. Multilingual coordinators support international patients, with specific help for those from Mongolia. They also arrange airport pickups and hotel stays.