First of all, I’ve had quite a lot of work done on my face here and there in different spots (each area was done at a different place). For the other hospitals where I had different areas done, there are brokers, and some places give discounts if you write a review, so there are actually a fair number of reviews. But this nose clinic feels kind of like a legendary well deep in the mountains, and even now there still don’t seem to be many reviews, so I’m writing one. As you know, even making a reservation here is brutally difficult. I don’t know if it’s still like that these days. When I did it, I think it took roughly a year just to get a consultation reservation? I told the manager that if there was ever a cancellation for a consultation, any time was fine, so please make sure to let me know. After that, I was just living my daily life when they contacted me asking, “Can you come for a consultation on this day?” and I remember dropping everything and rushing over. I had heard plenty about the director’s personality, but the moment it really hit me was during the first consultation, when the manager quietly handed me a sheet of paper. What I still remember is that it said things like, “Do not provoke the director,” “Do not interrupt the director before he finishes explaining,” and so on. It was that kind of instruction sheet (...) When I saw that paper, Eddy Kim’s “The Manual” and the “Beware of Dog” warning sign posted at a factory came to mind at the same time.... And then came the long-awaited consultation with the director... He really explained noses for an hour. 90% of that was about the importance of the columella. He put up photos of a certain female celebrity and male celebrity and gave an absolute masterclass. At that moment, I understood why people say that if you interrupt him there and say, “I want this kind of nose,” while showing him another celebrity’s photo, the director gets furious and says, “I’m not going to operate on you, get out,” and they leave crying. I haven’t lived that long, but he was a type of person I had truly never met before in my life. Was this what a master craftsman in the Joseon dynasty felt like when, while making pottery, he didn’t like it and shouted, “This isn’t it!!!” and smashed everything? That was the kind of feeling. He was really someone who felt so mismatched with 21st-century Korea, and even more so with plastic surgery... If I met him again now, I would definitely ask his MBTI because I’m really, really curious. Anyway, fortunately I received permission(?) to have surgery, and at the time the quote came out to 10 million won using autologous costal cartilage, so I immediately paid the deposit and booked it. And the moment the surgery date was set, the director changed 180 degrees like Jekyll and Hyde. I mean that in a good way. If, during the consultation, he was assistant Lucifer, the moment that person embraced me as his patient, he became endlessly warm, like caring for one of Jesus’s little lambs; even his way of speaking changed. First, before surgery, he read the Bible and prayed (...) Before anesthesia, I was shaking because I was scared, and he held both my hands and said to the nurse (thinking back, I feel kind of sorry for no reason), “Can’t you see the patient is trembling?” and I remember him saying something like to bring a cushion to raise my upper body. And then came the long-awaited surgery. I’m sure I lay down on the bed in the morning, but when I opened my eyes, it was 3 a.m. Everyone had gone home, and in the darkened hospital the director was alone, watching over me (...) Then the director called a taxi, got in with me, and took me to the accommodation I had booked in advance (...) What I still remember vividly is that the director, who was like a tyrant inside the hospital, was so clumsy at hailing a taxi, almost like an inflatable tube figure, that he got rejected three times. I still remember that contrast. (At this hospital, after surgery, it was the rule that the director personally disinfected the area every day for a week, so they would only let you have surgery if you booked accommodation nearby.) I’ll continue with part 2 after this.... (For reference, the attached screenshot is my payment history. I was so satisfied after having autologous costal cartilage surgery with the director that I also added bulbous nose reduction, but it happened to overlap with the director’s sabbatical, so I waited about 3 years or 2 years, then rushed over as soon as they reopened and got it done.)
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This is a surgery review pursuing a natural yet polished look.