A decision I truly don’t regret. I’m never getting my nose done again. If I ever get contracture, I’ll come here.

Overall, what I felt after having my nose operated on again is that you really have to choose the right “doctor.” This surgery is something I paid for with my own money, and I’ve never written any sponsored review or anything like that. Still, I’m writing at length because I sincerely hope this doctor does well and that others can also have successful surgeries. Of course, I’m also writing this because I need to level up, haha. First of all, after being treated by Director Kim Taeseop, the chronic issue I had with redness at the tip of my nose went away, and even that feeling of occasional coldness around the nasal bridge or columella? That sensation disappeared too. The aesthetic side goes without saying. I ended up with a really natural, pretty nose, and I’ve heard comments like, “Your nose turned out so well. Uh, it’s a little awkward to say this, but you looked much better after getting your nose done,” more than once or twice. After three years, I finally got the nose I wanted. Actually, I work an office job far removed from a career where my face is my livelihood, so I didn’t have a severe facial complex and kept putting off surgery. I even went on trips telling myself I’d rather take another vacation with that money. But I always felt a nagging dissatisfaction when I looked in the mirror. I didn’t want a celebrity-like face, but I missed the times when I could look in the mirror and think, “Ah, I’m cute haha,” like I used to. For reference, when you get nose surgery, you should not vaguely say, “Please make it like Shin Se-kyung’s nose.” For reference, I did that too. You also don’t have to go to this particular director. You need to visit a lot of clinics and compare. You really should go to at least four or five places. Read a lot of reviews too. You get a feeling when you go for consultations. There are really many kinds of doctors. Doctors can broadly be divided into three types: 1) “I’ll just do well for you” x <-- not interested in my problem at all 2) They analyze my nose and say, “This part should be corrected like this, and this other part seems like something that needs improvement. What do you think?” < -- this is a doctor who is truly interested in solving my problem 3) When the patient talks about their problem, instead of answering, the doctor suddenly starts talking about their own achievements or career and lectures me that I should listen to them <--- an old-school doctor far from flexibility. You should avoid type 1. Type 3 is questionable. Then among 2 and 3, what kind of doctor is a great doctor? Is it 2? Not necessarily. From the patient’s perspective, honestly, all that matters is that the “result” comes out well. The doctor isn’t someone you meet every day, and if one surgery goes well, that’s the end of it. If you’re torn between 2 and 3, I’d say do a lot of case studies. That’s what I did before visiting The Door. The reason I visited The Door was that, among many hospitals, it seemed like a place with doctors who had a lot of experience improving my type of problem very well (this is extremely, extremely, extremely important). In fact, patients’ cases are so diverse. And doctors can’t fix every disease, so within their field they inevitably become especially good at certain surgical techniques. If you repeat something enough, you get good at it, and if you do it for a long time, you have no choice but to get good at it. (Of course, that is not always the case. I once spent 12 million won on eyes and nose surgery at another clinic, and the result was truly... devastating. For reference, that clinic had been operating for 15 years. I won’t name it, but it was a Gangnam revision-surgery clinic, seriously.............sigh.) People’s eyes are similar. Beautiful people look beautiful to everyone to some extent. For both nose and eyes, I sincerely hope you go to doctors who have aesthetic sense, skill, and character. In that sense, I think The Door has doctors who possess all of those. (Hahaha, this sounds a bit like an ad post Seriously it’s not. If you ask me to prove it with a receipt, I can; I probably have the card charge from about a year ago.) And after failing once and succeeding once, I’ve only now learned how to screen clinics, and it’s really frustrating. It seems that in order to get a reasonably pretty face by the standards of an ordinary person, you have to spend around 20 million won on revision surgery and surgery in general.. If you meet a doctor with good aesthetics and skill for the first surgery, you could have gotten a satisfying face for under 10 million won, which is really unfortunate. Personally, I didn’t get surgery from the main director, but I think they may share a similar surgical technique to Director Kim Taeseop..? Honestly, nose surgery is also basically “you name your price,” and it’s quite expensive, but I absolutely could not afford to ruin my nose a second time, so I spent several months searching. Oh, and just watching The Door’s YouTube before-and-after Shorts should give you some sense of it. I also watched Director Kim Taeseop’s personal vlog-like YouTube, and because he seemed like such an earnest person, that also helped me decide to have the surgery. As a patient, I also worry about whether aftercare will be handled well, and from the patient’s perspective, once the surgery has already gone well, I honestly don’t remember exactly what the clinic’s aftercare policy was. But if the result had not been good, I don’t think they would at least ignore or brush me off. What really matters is not some “warm and friendly doctor” who speaks to you like a friend. The doctor looked at my face, immediately diagnosed the problem like a T, proposed the solution, did not overpush or create false expectations, and performed the surgery neatly. A clinic that does not judge your looks, does not pressure you to transfer the deposit the same day, and generally doesn’t rush you seems like a clinic that does well. That was exactly The Door. I really hope they keep receiving many patients and that the clinic continues to do even better.