Changelog
Every data update, correction, and methodology change is logged here and in each clinic's own change history. The rating updates whenever the underlying public data changes.
| Date | Subject | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | 365 Seoul One Top Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-26: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, clinic open. Newly captured Google Maps rating 4.9 (75 reviews, most recent review ~1 month old) with pin coordinates via live Maps visit. |
| 2026-08-26 | 365 Seoul One Top Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26 against HIRA (건강보험심사평가원): clinic confirmed as registered 365서울원탑치과의원 at the address on file. No public name-searchable dentist licence register exists in South Korea (lic.mohw.go.kr is document/barcode verification only) — the named doctor left null with that note. |
| 2026-08-26 | Gangnam Claire Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-26: stored website https://www.englishspeakingdentistgangnam.com/ is DEAD (HTTP 404 on root). Identified and confirmed the clinic's current live site at https://www.seoulsmileveneers.com/ — it prominently names 'Gangnam Claire Dental Clinic' with matching address (4F, Buil Tower, 507 Seolleung-ro, Gangnam-gu) and matching phone (+82-10-5563-2875); recorded as corrected website. Confirmed via Google Maps ('클레어치과의원' / Claire Dental Clinic, clairedental.kr) that the clinic is open, rating 5.0 (181 reviews), same address/phone; name, address, and phone otherwise unchanged. |
| 2026-08-26 | Gangnam Claire Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26 against HIRA (건강보험심사평가원): clinic confirmed as registered 클레어치과의원 at the address on file, despite its own website now returning HTTP 404. No public name-searchable dentist licence register exists in South Korea (lic.mohw.go.kr is document/barcode verification only) — both named doctors left null with that note. |
| 2026-08-26 | Gangnam Claire Dental Clinic | Link-rot cleanup 2026-08-26: pruning 2 dead source(s) confirmed unreachable in the fleet external-link sweep (checked 2026-08-26) and re-confirmed dead by direct recheck where applicable. s1 [https://www.englishspeakingdentistgangnam.com/]: https://www.englishspeakingdentistgangnam.com/ (HTTP 404, rotten) | s2 [https://www.englishspeakingdentistgangnam.com/general-dentistry-seoul/emergency-dental-care]: https://www.englishspeakingdentistgangnam.com/general-dentistry-seoul/emergency-dental-care (HTTP 404, rotten) |
| 2026-08-26 | Gangnam Claire Dental Clinic | Link-rot cleanup 2026-08-26: englishspeakingdentistgangnam.com (s1, s2) confirmed dead. This clinic already has a different, live, already-correct contacts.website on file (seoulsmileveneers.com) - re-fetched and read directly 2026-08-26, confirms both doctors by name/specialization, address, phone/WhatsApp (exact match), and the full previously-cited service range (implants, orthodontics, oral surgery, pediatric, emergency, English/international service, no published prices, dedicated per-treatment pages). Re-cited 17 of the 19 s1-sourced criteria facts and s2's 2 facts (offersEmergency, dedicatedServicePages) onto seoulsmileveneers.com - no value changes, this is a like-for-like re-verification via an already-recorded alternate domain, not staged as a contacts.website change since that field is already correct. reputation.onFacebook and reputation.onOtherPlatforms (Facebook/other platforms not mentioned on seoulsmileveneers.com) are left unresolved. Added seoulsmileveneers.com as an additional source on both doctors. s2 pruned (no longer cited by anything). s1 NOT pruned: it remains cited via both doctors (union-merge) and the existing redFlag (opaque_prices, which cannot be edited - no delta-v1 write path for redFlags[]). Noted for the record, not staged: Google Maps also surfaces a third live domain, clairedental.kr, for a same-address/phone but more cosmetically-branded "Claire Dental" presentation with a narrower, unconfirmed service list - not used as a source given the material difference from the fuller seoulsmileveneers.com content. |
| 2026-08-26 | Gangnam Dentique Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-26: confirmed website live at gangnam.dental, name/address/phone unchanged, clinic open (not permanently closed). Newly captured Google Maps rating 5.0 (189 reviews, most recent review ~2 months old) with pin coordinates via live Maps visit — Maps lists the business as 'Dentique Dental Clinic' (덴티크치과의원), same address. |
| 2026-08-26 | Gangnam Dentique Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26, re-checked 2026-08-26 against HIRA (건강보험심사평가원): clinic confirmed as registered 덴티크치과의원 at the same street/building (Nonhyeon-ro 111-gil 3, Gangnam-gu); HIRA records the unit as 지하1층 (B1F) while the address on file says 1F — floor discrepancy noted, not resolved as an exact match. No public name-searchable dentist licence register exists in South Korea (lic.mohw.go.kr is document/barcode verification only) — both named doctors left null with that note. |
| 2026-08-26 | Gangnam Gentle Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-26: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, clinic open (Maps shows 'confirmed by business 12 weeks ago'). Newly captured Google Maps rating 4.6 (80 reviews, most recent review ~3 months old) with pin coordinates via live Maps visit. |
| 2026-08-26 | Gangnam Gentle Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26 against HIRA (건강보험심사평가원): clinic confirmed as registered 강남젠틀치과의원 at the address on file. No public name-searchable dentist licence register exists in South Korea (lic.mohw.go.kr is document/barcode verification only) — the named doctor left null with that note. |
| 2026-08-26 | Itaewon Global Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-26: website http://globaldental-en.co.kr/ loads (a mirrored fetch confirmed a live 'World-Class Dental Care' homepage) but presents a self-signed certificate to the direct fetch tool and its pages carry almost no extractable text/contact data, so contacts could not be independently confirmed from the site itself. Confirmed via Google Maps instead — 'Global Dental Clinic' (글로벌 치과) at Itaewon-ro 142-1, 3rd floor matches worklist address exactly, clinic open, rating 4.5 (27 reviews, most recent review ~8 months old). Name and address unchanged; operating status resolved from previously 'unclear' to 'open'. |
| 2026-08-26 | Itaewon Global Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26 against HIRA (건강보험심사평가원): clinic confirmed as registered 글로벌치과의원 at the address on file, despite its own website being unreachable (self-signed SSL). No individual dentists are named in clinics.json for this clinic, so no doctor lookups were performed. |
| 2026-08-26 | Lucid Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-26: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, clinic open. Newly captured Google Maps rating 4.9 (166 reviews, most recent review ~3 weeks old) with pin coordinates via live Maps visit. |
| 2026-08-26 | Lucid Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26 against HIRA (건강보험심사평가원): clinic confirmed as registered 루시드치과의원 at the address on file. No public name-searchable dentist licence register exists in South Korea (lic.mohw.go.kr is document/barcode verification only) — all six named doctors left null with that note. |
| 2026-08-26 | MINISH Dental Hospital | Re-verification 2026-08-26: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged, clinic open. Newly captured Google Maps rating 4.7 (95 reviews, most recent review ~2 months old); pin coordinates match those previously resolved from the site's own Maps short link and are re-confirmed via direct Maps visit. |
| 2026-08-26 | MINISH Dental Hospital | License verification 2026-08-26 against HIRA (건강보험심사평가원): hospital confirmed as registered 미니쉬치과병원 at the address on file. No individual dentists are named in clinics.json for this clinic, so no doctor lookups were performed. |
| 2026-08-26 | New York S Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-26: confirmed website live at nysdentalclinic.com, name unchanged, clinic open. The site itself still gives no phone or full street address (only 'Jongno-gu, Seoul'); Google Maps supplied the fuller address (Room 309, Somerset Palace Seoul, 7 Yulgok-ro 2-gil) and a phone number (+82-2-722-0875, previously unset) — recorded. Newly captured rating 4.9 (140 reviews, most recent review ~1 month old) with pin coordinates. |
| 2026-08-26 | New York S Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26 against HIRA (건강보험심사평가원): clinic confirmed as registered 뉴욕S치과의원 inside Somerset Palace Seoul, matching the building-level address on file. No public name-searchable dentist licence register exists in South Korea (lic.mohw.go.kr is document/barcode verification only) — both named doctors left null with that note. |
| 2026-08-26 | S-Plant Dental Hospital | Re-verification 2026-08-26: confirmed website live at splant.co.kr, address/phone unchanged, clinic open. Newly captured Google Maps rating 4.2 (22 reviews, most recent review ~2 weeks old) with pin coordinates via live Maps visit. |
| 2026-08-26 | S-Plant Dental Hospital | License verification 2026-08-26 against HIRA (건강보험심사평가원): hospital confirmed as registered 에스플란트치과병원 at the address on file. No public name-searchable dentist licence register exists in South Korea (lic.mohw.go.kr is document/barcode verification only) — all four named doctors left null with that note. |
| 2026-08-26 | Seoul Today Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-26: confirmed website live at dentistskorea.com, name/address unchanged, clinic open. The site itself still shows only a placeholder contact form (no real phone published); Google Maps supplied a phone number (+82-2-6404-2875, previously unset) — recorded. Newly captured rating 4.9 (108 reviews, most recent review ~2 months old) with pin coordinates. |
| 2026-08-26 | Seoul Today Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26, re-checked 2026-08-26 against HIRA (건강보험심사평가원): clinic confirmed as registered 서울오늘치과의원 at 경기도 고양시 덕양구 동송로 63, 3층 (삼송동), exactly matching the address on file. The prior verified-false call had used the correct Gyeonggi-do/Goyang Deogyang-gu region filter but only tried transliteration-guess name variants; the clinic's actual Korean legal name — a translated rather than transliterated 'Seoul Today', 서울오늘치과의원 — was found via its own Google Maps listing. No public name-searchable dentist licence register exists in South Korea (lic.mohw.go.kr is document/barcode verification only) — the named doctor left null with that note. |
| 2026-08-26 | Smile Studio Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-26: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged, clinic open. Google Maps lists the business as 'Smile Studios Dental Clinic' (plural) vs. stored 'Smile Studio Dental Clinic' (singular) — noted but not changed since the clinic's own site uses the singular form; same address/coordinates as previously resolved. Newly captured rating 4.8 (72 reviews, most recent review ~1 month old). |
| 2026-08-26 | Smile Studio Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26 against HIRA (건강보험심사평가원): clinic confirmed as registered 스마일스튜디오치과의원 at the address on file. No public name-searchable dentist licence register exists in South Korea (lic.mohw.go.kr is document/barcode verification only) — the named doctor left null with that note. |
| 2026-08-26 | Yonsei Heal Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-26: confirmed website live at seoulimplantclinic.com (matches Google Maps listing exactly), name/address/phone unchanged, clinic open. Newly captured Google Maps rating 4.8 (189 reviews, most recent review ~2 months old) with pin coordinates. |
| 2026-08-26 | Yonsei Heal Dental Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26 against HIRA (건강보험심사평가원): clinic confirmed as registered 연세힐치과의원 at the address on file. No individual dentists are named in clinics.json for this clinic, so no doctor lookups were performed. |
| 2026-08-25 | 365 Seoul One Top Dental Clinic | Re-verified live facts (website, contacts, operating status): no changes. Google reputation not captured — search tools unreachable this session (WebSearch budget exhausted; Google/Maps/Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex blocked). |
| 2026-08-25 | 365 Seoul One Top Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Offers oral/inhalation/moderate IV sedation only; deepest state described is patient 'lightly asleep' but monitored, no general anesthesia. |
| 2026-08-25 | Gangnam Claire Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: website https://www.englishspeakingdentistgangnam.com/ returns HTTP 404 on root, /home, and /index.html — site appears dead. No successor site could be identified: WebSearch budget was already exhausted this session and Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex/Mojeek/Brave/web.archive.org were all blocked, rate-limited, or CAPTCHA-walled to the available fetch tool. Address, phone, and Google reputation could not be reconfirmed. Operating status unclear pending a working search tool. |
| 2026-08-25 | Gangnam Dentique Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live at https://www.gangnam.dental/, name/address/phone unchanged. Google Maps rating/review data not captured this session — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Mojeek and Brave search were all blocked or CAPTCHA-walled to the available fetch tool, and the WebSearch tool's session budget was already exhausted before this task began; no other changes. |
| 2026-08-25 | Gangnam Dentique Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site sedation page: General Anesthesia - patients 'completely unconscious during the procedure'. |
| 2026-08-25 | Gangnam Gentle Dental Clinic | Re-verified live facts (website, contacts, operating status): no changes. Google reputation not captured — search tools unreachable this session (WebSearch budget exhausted; Google/Maps/Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex blocked). |
| 2026-08-25 | Itaewon Global Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: website http://globaldental-en.co.kr/ (and https://www.globaldental-en.co.kr/) is unreachable — the server presents a self-signed SSL certificate, which the fetch tool refuses. Could not verify content, name, address, phone, or operating status, and could not search for closure evidence (WebSearch budget exhausted; Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex/Mojeek/Brave all blocked or rate-limited to the fetch tool). Operating status unclear. |
| 2026-08-25 | Lucid Dental Clinic | Re-verified live facts (website, contacts, operating status): no changes. Google reputation not captured — search tools unreachable this session (WebSearch budget exhausted; Google/Maps/Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex blocked). |
| 2026-08-25 | Methodology v1.3.0 | Corrected how the two licensing red flags are applied ("Clinic operating licence not published" and "Dentists / their licences not listed"). Previously they were applied whenever licensing data was absent from our records, which treated unchecked data as a negative finding — contrary to the methodology's own rule that unverified data is a fact about our coverage, not about the clinic. Both flags now apply only where we have verified that the information is not published. Manual licensing flags that rested on unverified data were removed from the affected clinics. No other scoring rules changed; most scores rise because the incorrect penalty is removed. |
| 2026-08-25 | MINISH Dental Hospital | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address/phone unchanged. Resolved the clinic's own goo.gl/maps short link (found on minishteeth.com/locations/) to its canonical Google Maps place URL and pin coordinates, newly recorded. Could not read star rating or review count — the Maps place page is a JS-rendered app that returns no data to the fetch tool available this session, and search-engine fallbacks (Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex/Mojeek/Brave) were all blocked or CAPTCHA-walled; WebSearch budget was also already exhausted. |
| 2026-08-25 | New York S Dental Clinic | Re-verified live facts (website, contacts, operating status): no changes. Site (home, /doctors) publishes no phone number and no full street address beyond "Jongno-gu, Seoul", consistent with the stored partial address. Google reputation not captured — search tools unreachable this session (WebSearch budget exhausted; Google/Maps/Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex blocked). |
| 2026-08-25 | S-Plant Dental Hospital | Re-verified live facts (website, contacts, operating status): no changes. Google reputation not captured — search tools unreachable this session (WebSearch budget exhausted; Google/Maps/Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex blocked). |
| 2026-08-25 | S-Plant Dental Hospital | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site documents general anesthesia / monitored sedation with sleep-like, no-memory state. |
| 2026-08-25 | Seoul Today Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, name/address unchanged. Site currently displays a placeholder phone number (555-555-5555), clearly not a real contact number, so phone remains unrecorded (stored value already unset). Google reputation not captured — search tools unreachable this session (WebSearch budget exhausted; Google/Maps/Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex blocked). |
| 2026-08-25 | Seoul Today Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Markets 'sleep implants'/'sleep-system' but explicitly describes conscious sedation with patient 'relaxed and stable', not general anesthesia. |
| 2026-08-25 | Smile Studio Dental Clinic | Re-verification 2026-08-25: confirmed website live, address/phone unchanged. A Google Maps place link embedded on the clinic's own site (gangnam.dentist) gave a canonical Maps place URL and pin coordinates, newly recorded; that listing shows the name as "Smile Studios Dental Clinic" (plural) vs. the stored "Smile Studio Dental Clinic" — noted but not changed pending independent confirmation. Could not read star rating or review count — Maps place page is JS-rendered and returned no data to the fetch tool, and all search-engine fallbacks were blocked/CAPTCHA-walled or budget-exhausted this session. |
| 2026-08-25 | Smile Studio Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): documented as available. Site sedation page: General Anesthesia available for certain cases under medical supervision, distinguished from conscious sedation. |
| 2026-08-25 | Yonsei Heal Dental Clinic | Re-verified live facts (website, contacts, operating status): no changes. Google reputation not captured — search tools unreachable this session (WebSearch budget exhausted; Google/Maps/Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex blocked). |
| 2026-08-25 | Yonsei Heal Dental Clinic | Recorded sedation / general anaesthesia availability (informational): not documented in public sources. Site states procedure 'performed under local anesthesia' only; no deeper sedation or general anesthesia mentioned. |
| 2026-08-23 | Methodology v1.2.0 | Added an informational "Sedation & general anaesthesia" availability field to every clinic and a new "Sleep Dentistry (Sedation / GA)" list, for patients who cannot tolerate — or would rather not be awake for — treatment. This field is informational and does not change any transparency score. |
| 2026-07-10 | 365 Seoul One Top Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Gangnam Claire Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Gangnam Dentique Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Gangnam Gentle Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Itaewon Global Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Lucid Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | MINISH Dental Hospital | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | New York S Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | S-Plant Dental Hospital | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Seoul Today Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Smile Studio Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-10 | Yonsei Heal Dental Clinic | Initial data collection. |
| 2026-07-08 | Methodology v1.1.0 | Added licensing transparency: clinics are now penalised when they do not publish their operating licence, or do not list their dentists together with their professional licence numbers. Each clinic page now shows a Licensing & Credentials section. |
| 2026-07-03 | Methodology v1.0.0 | Initial public methodology. |