How We Make Money

The Seoul Glow Magazine is published by The Seoul Glow, a K-medical tourism agency registered with the Korean government as a facilitator for international patients (registration A-2025-08-01-06516). You can look that registration up yourself in the public Medical Korea directory. We would rather you did.

Where the money comes from

When a reader chooses to be treated in Korea and asks our agency to coordinate it, the medical institution pays our agency a facilitation fee. Korean law caps that fee: 30% at a clinic, 20% at a hospital, 15% at a tertiary hospital. The patient pays us nothing for coordination.

What is not for sale

Editorial content. No clinic, doctor or device manufacturer can buy an article, an interview, a record entry, a placement in one, or a change to one. We do not accept payment for coverage in any form, and we do not write anyone’s advertising copy.

The magazine currently carries no advertising at all. If that changes, every advertisement will be labelled as one, it will be created by the advertiser rather than by us, and this page will say so before the first one runs.

The conflict we have, stated plainly

Some clinics written about here also work with our agency, which means we may earn a fee if you are treated by them. That is a real conflict of interest and no disclosure makes it disappear. What we can do is tell you it exists, name it on the page where it applies, keep every clinic’s own website one click away so you can go direct and cut us out, and publish the checks that let you judge a clinic without taking our word for anything.

What we will not publish

• Before and after photographs.
• Prices for a named clinic, or discounts and promotions.
• Rankings, “best clinic” claims, or any promise about a result.
• The name of any clinic that has not given written consent to appear here.

Who chooses what we cover

Coverage is chosen by the magazine’s editors, on one test: whether a reader deciding about treatment in Korea needs it. No clinic chooses its coverage, commissions an article, or sees one before publication. A clinic that supplies material (photographs, device lists, its own decks) gets that material read critically, not printed: what we could verify is published with its source named, what we could not is either omitted or marked as unverified, and material that misrepresents (a rendering offered as a photograph, a superlative offered as a fact) is declined. The same standard applies whether a clinic pays our agency fees or has never spoken to it. If a clinic could tell the difference between coverage it paid for and coverage it did not, this page would be false; that is the test we hold it to.

The rest of our working rules on sourcing, photographs, corrections and consent are published in full in our Editorial standards.