If the price had been only 1.5 times that of other hospitals, I think I would have decided to have surgery here. The cost is more than twice as much.
Even compared with other hospitals, it feels expensive, but even looking at it on its own, I never thought my face was severe enough to burn that much money, so after a long struggle this was the hospital I eventually let go of? It was a place I desperately wanted to do the surgery at, but the second reason I let it go was that, since this was my first surgery, there were mostly reviews of revision, reconstruction, and implant surgeries. The third reason was that they showed no compromise at all for prospective patients. Luckily, I had no issues on the consultation day and could arrive on time, but life is unpredictable, and it honestly felt off-putting at first to be warned that even one change wasn’t allowed and deposits couldn’t be refunded, so think carefully before deciding. But once you actually meet him, he seems like the kind of person who would take responsibility to the end once you become his patient.
If I try to infer the director’s style by piling speculation on speculation: very high self-esteem and pride in his career (he explains his own claims so convincingly that he kind of captivates people, then about claims from other hospitals? well, maybe not haha. It’s not that I think everything I say is right! I just think that way. What do you think? That sort of speech pattern, which is also something worth learning from in business.) -> tends to become over-immersed in patients -> tires himself out and keeps that in check -> nevertheless, in the end, he seems like he would create many good surgical results out of self-satisfaction.
Still, there is no such thing as a surgery that is guaranteed 100% for sure, and if I ended up being that unlucky 1%, or if the emotional relationship were to sour even a little after surgery, it also made me feel like I might be coldly abandoned. That strange fear was the third reason I gave up on the surgery.
But if I truly wanted to fix my nasolabial folds with contour surgery, or if a dramatic effect were possible because of my job that requires a lot of appearance, I would have done it here even at 3 times the price, not 2, based on consultation alone. I think I went to about 5 to 7 contour consultations, and actually having this place at the start was probably a good choice. Whenever my worries and thoughts got deeper, I kept revisiting the conversation I had with the director here, all the way back to why I wanted to get cosmetic surgery in the first place.
Surgery is something done by people, and the person receiving surgery is also a person. No matter how many hundreds or thousands of bones a surgeon has handled, there are no two identical people.. If I’m going to bet money, time, and my life on luck anyway, I think I should first sort out what matters most to me.
The reason I didn’t think 100,000 won was a waste was because I thought the director’s personality, my personality, and our values matched so well. People with an MBTI of F might be disappointed