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| 날짜 | 대상 | 변경 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | 평가 방식 v1.4.2 | Clarified when dentist names count: a name published by the clinic counts when it lets a patient find the dentist in a professional register; a first name alone is not enough, nor is a first name with a patronymic where surnames are in use. Applied the same day to the clinics whose own channels name their dentists by first name only, which lose the points for dentist names. No other score changes. |
| 2026-10-07 | 평가 방식 v1.4.1 | Added a limit on re-checks made at a clinic's request: the next request from the same clinic about its own page is taken up no sooner than one month after the last re-check made at its request, which is dated in the clinic's change history; requests sent earlier are not processed. Corrections reported by anyone else are handled as before. No score changes. |
| 2026-10-05 | 365 Seoul One Top Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 3 review orders (15 distinct reviews, dated 2023-12-19 to 2026-09-29; 4.9 from 93): owner replies true; recurring complaints false; suspicious review patterns false. |
| 2026-10-05 | Claire Dental Clinic (클레어치과의원) | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2026-04-14 to 2026-10-02; 5.0 from 242): owner replies false. |
| 2026-10-05 | Itaewon Global Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 4 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2021-12-27 to 2025-12-08; 4.5 from 27): suspicious review patterns false. |
| 2026-10-05 | MINISH Dental Hospital | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 3 review orders (15 distinct reviews, dated 2019-11-22 to 2026-10-01; 4.8 from 131): owner replies false; recurring complaints false; suspicious review patterns false. |
| 2026-10-05 | New York S Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2026-04-22 to 2026-09-29; 4.9 from 115): owner replies true; recurring complaints false; suspicious review patterns false. |
| 2026-10-05 | S-Plant Dental Hospital | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 4 review orders (12 distinct reviews, dated 2017-12-24 to 2026-09-15; 4.2 from 23): suspicious review patterns false. |
| 2026-10-05 | Smile Studio Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2024-12-28 to 2026-10-01; 4.9 from 95): owner replies false; recurring complaints false. |
| 2026-10-05 | Yonsei Heal Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's Google listing on 2026-10-02 in 2 review orders (10 distinct reviews, dated 2023-04-27 to 2026-10-02; 4.8 from 247): recurring complaints false; suspicious review patterns false. |
| 2026-10-02 | 365 Seoul One Top Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: absent. |
| 2026-10-02 | 365 Seoul One Top Dental Clinic | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Claire Dental Clinic (클레어치과의원) | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-02 | Gangnam Dentique Clinic | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-02 | Gangnam Gentle Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-02 | Gangnam Gentle Dental Clinic | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | Lucid Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: absent. |
| 2026-10-02 | MINISH Dental Hospital | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-02 | MINISH Dental Hospital | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-10-02 | New York S Dental Clinic | Presence re-checked: presence on other review platforms — yes. |
| 2026-10-02 | New York S Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-02 | S-Plant Dental Hospital | Presence re-checked: Facebook presence — no. |
| 2026-10-02 | S-Plant Dental Hospital | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: absent. |
| 2026-10-02 | Seoul Today Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: absent. |
| 2026-10-02 | Smile Studio Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: absent. |
| 2026-10-02 | Yonsei Heal Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's website HTML on 2026-10-02: structured data: present. |
| 2026-10-02 | Yonsei Heal Dental Clinic | Facebook presence re-checked on 2026-10-02: live Facebook page confirmed. |
| 2026-09-30 | Itaewon Global Dental Clinic | Re-read the clinic's own channels on 2026-09-30 (the website's home page, Google listing, KakaoTalk channel, Facebook page and Instagram account): the website, its English version, the contacts and the address now rest on them, and real clinic photos are recorded from the KakaoTalk channel and the Google listing. Dentist names and specializations, the service list and all prices are now unverified, as the earlier values came from a directory profile, none of these channels publishes them and the website could not be checked beyond its home page; the red flag stating that no dentists are named, which rested on the same directory page, is removed. |
| 2026-09-30 | Itaewon Global Dental Clinic | Read the clinic's website in full on 2026-09-30, in English and Korean: it names its three dentists with their training, lists its treatments (including clear aligners) and equipment, documents laughing-gas sedation only and publishes no prices, saying costs are discussed before treatment; its Instagram has not posted since October 2024. The infrastructure and communication facts now rest on the website instead of a directory profile. |
| 2026-09-29 | 365 Seoul One Top Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 3 reviews were checked for owner replies; review count 91 (was 81) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | Claire Dental Clinic (클레어치과의원) | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 3 reviews were checked for owner replies; active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established; review count 232 (was 201) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | Gangnam Gentle Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-21); owner replies to reviews confirmed on the Google listing (owner reply dated 2026-09-15). |
| 2026-09-29 | Lucid Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: Google rating 4.8 (was 4.9) and review count 185 (was 174) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | MINISH Dental Hospital | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 112 (was 95) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | New York S Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 171 (was 140) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | Seoul Today Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 127 (was 120) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | Smile Studio Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: Google rating 4.9 (was 4.8) and review count 89 (was 72) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26. |
| 2026-09-29 | Yonsei Heal Dental Clinic | Corrected 2026-09-29: review count 236 (was 189) from the Google listing on 2026-09-26; owner replies to reviews confirmed on the Google listing (owner reply dated 2026-09-22). |
| 2026-09-07 | 365 Seoul One Top Dental Clinic | Reputation block written from the live measurement taken on 2026-09-06, which read this clinic’s Google Maps place page but could not write to it: the twin carries no entry in data/research/*.json, so import-research.js left it untouched and the figures stayed in the trail (browser/korea-japan.md, «Open for the gate» item 2). Written now: googleRating 4.9 → 4.9, googleReviewCount 75 → 81 (histogram 76/4/0/0/1 = 81, weighted mean 4.901), respondsToReviews → false. The trail did not measure reviewRecency, recurringComplaints, suspiciousReviewPatterns for this clinic, so those fields are left exactly as it stood. The country twin on korea-dental was re-synchronised from this card in the same step; the two copies are identical except for the twin’s city key. |
| 2026-09-07 | 365 Seoul One Top Dental Clinic | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | Claire Dental Clinic (클레어치과의원) | Reputation block written from the live measurement taken on 2026-09-06, which read this clinic’s Google Maps place page but could not write to it: the twin carries no entry in data/research/*.json, so import-research.js left it untouched and the figures stayed in the trail (browser/korea-japan.md, «Open for the gate» item 2). Written now: googleRating 5.0 → 5.0, googleReviewCount 181 → 201 (histogram 198/3/0/0/0 = 201, weighted mean 4.985), respondsToReviews → false, reviewRecency → within_3_months, recurringComplaints → false, suspiciousReviewPatterns → false. The country twin on korea-dental was re-synchronised from this card in the same step; the two copies are identical except for the twin’s city key. |
| 2026-09-07 | Claire Dental Clinic (클레어치과의원) | Display name changed from «Gangnam Claire Dental Clinic» to «Claire Dental Clinic» followed by the Hangul registered name (Keulleeo Chigwa-uiwon) in parentheses, under the methodology's naming rule (name = the form the clinic uses for itself; the Latin alias in parentheses where the clinic publishes one — here inverted, because the registered form is the Korean one). The clinic writes itself «CLAIRE DENTAL CLINIC» in its own English material on clairedental.kr (the /event/ price board and the uid=19 aftercare page, source cl1) and Keulleeo Chigwa-uiwon, in Hangul, in its site footer and in the HIRA register (provider code 11598948). «Gangnam» was never part of the clinic’s own name — it is the district, and it stays in the slug, the address and the summary only. The slug gangnam-claire-dental is unchanged, so no URL moves. The English, Korean and Russian summaries already name the clinic by its registered name (Keulleeo Chigwa-uiwon) rather than by the old display name and were not edited. |
| 2026-09-07 | Gangnam Dentique Clinic | Reputation block written from the live measurement taken on 2026-09-06, which read this clinic’s Google Maps place page but could not write to it: the twin carries no entry in data/research/*.json, so import-research.js left it untouched and the figures stayed in the trail (browser/korea-japan.md, «Open for the gate» item 2). Written now: googleRating 5.0 → 5.0, googleReviewCount 189 → 193 (histogram 188/2/2/1/0 = 193, weighted mean 4.953), respondsToReviews → true, reviewRecency → within_3_months, recurringComplaints → false, suspiciousReviewPatterns → false. The country twin on korea-dental was re-synchronised from this card in the same step; the two copies are identical except for the twin’s city key. |
| 2026-09-07 | Gangnam Dentique Clinic | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | Gangnam Gentle Dental Clinic | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | Itaewon Global Dental Clinic | opaque_prices flag reviewed under methodology v1.4.0 and kept: the note hints at opacity but cites nothing verifiable, so it is annotated for re-verification at the next check. |
| 2026-09-07 | Itaewon Global Dental Clinic | Opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no citable evidence found on re-verification 2026-09-07: the clinic's own site globaldental-en.co.kr sits behind a JavaScript anti-bot cookie wall and is unreadable by automated fetch; the cited 10mag directory entry says only that the clinic 'offer transparent discussion about the cost of your treatments and your payment options', which is a claim rather than a documented bait or undisclosed-fee report). |
| 2026-09-07 | Lucid Dental Clinic | Reputation block written from the live measurement taken on 2026-09-06, which read this clinic’s Google Maps place page but could not write to it: the twin carries no entry in data/research/*.json, so import-research.js left it untouched and the figures stayed in the trail (browser/korea-japan.md, «Open for the gate» item 2). Written now: googleRating 4.9 → 4.9, googleReviewCount 166 → 174 (histogram 162/6/3/1/2 = 174, weighted mean 4.868), respondsToReviews → true, reviewRecency → within_3_months, recurringComplaints → false, suspiciousReviewPatterns → false. The country twin on korea-dental was re-synchronised from this card in the same step; the two copies are identical except for the twin’s city key. |
| 2026-09-07 | MINISH Dental Hospital | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | New York S Dental Clinic | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | S-Plant Dental Hospital | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | Seoul Today Dental Clinic | Reputation block written from the live measurement taken on 2026-09-06, which read this clinic’s Google Maps place page but could not write to it: the twin carries no entry in data/research/*.json, so import-research.js left it untouched and the figures stayed in the trail (browser/korea-japan.md, «Open for the gate» item 2). Written now: googleRating 4.9 → 4.9, googleReviewCount 108 → 120 (histogram 111/4/3/0/2 = 120, weighted mean 4.850), respondsToReviews → true, reviewRecency → within_3_months, recurringComplaints → false, suspiciousReviewPatterns → false. The country twin on korea-dental was re-synchronised from this card in the same step; the two copies are identical except for the twin’s city key. |
| 2026-09-07 | Smile Studio Dental Clinic | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | Yonsei Heal Dental Clinic | opaque_prices flag removed under methodology v1.4.0 (no evidence of bait/opacity; non-publication is scored by price criteria). |
| 2026-09-07 | 평가 방식 v1.4.0 | Narrowed the "Opaque or bait pricing" red flag to what its published definition describes. Until now the flag was applied automatically to every clinic that does not publish a price list — a harsher statement than the evidence supports, since the catalogue defines the flag as complaints about final bills materially exceeding quoted prices, or advertised prices that are not honoured. Not publishing prices is already scored: it costs the clinic points in the price transparency category, and it is not, on its own, evidence of bait pricing. The automatic rule is removed, so the flag and its 2-point penalty come off about 1,300 clinic pages across the index; no clinic gains a flag, and no weight, severity or other scoring rule changed. The flag can still be recorded against a clinic by hand with cited sources, and about 210 clinics carry such an entry today; we are reviewing those entries in a follow-up pass, because some of them were also written for nothing more than an unpublished price list. |
| 2026-09-06 | Claire Dental Clinic (클레어치과의원) | Owner decision: both domains this card's transparency rested on are dead — englishspeakingdentistgangnam.com (source s1) has returned HTTP 404 since 2026-08-25 and seoulsmileveneers.com (source gangnam-claire-dental-linkrot, also the recorded contacts.website) since 2026-09-04, both re-confirmed 404 on 2026-09-06. All 27 criteria fields whose only support was one of those two pages have been set to null rather than left asserting a website that does not exist; the engine treats null more gently than false, so this does not penalise the clinic. Untouched: the HIRA registry line (Keulleeo Chigwa-uiwon, provider code 11598948, 4F Buil Tower, 507 Seolleung-ro, Gangnam-gu, opening date 2025-12-16), the Google Maps reputation figures and the search-visibility fields, none of which depend on the dead domains. Recorded for the re-capture: the clinic's Google listing publishes a working site, clairedental.kr (HTTP 200 on 2026-09-06), with phone +82 2-555-2879 and address 4F Buil Tower, 507 Seolleung-ro, Gangnam-gu — exactly what HIRA holds, and the landline rather than the mobile the card carries. Nothing was captured from clairedental.kr in this pass; re-shooting the 27 fields from it is a separate, later step. |
| 2026-09-06 | Claire Dental Clinic (클레어치과의원) | 2026-09-06: re-captured 27 fields from live clairedental.kr; website/phone corrected; see E2. Identity confirmed before capture: the site’s footer and JSON-LD give Keulleeo Chigwa-uiwon, representative Yuna Kim, 4F Buil Tower, 507 Seolleung-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul and +82-2-555-2879 — the HIRA-registered name, address and landline — and clairedentalkr@gmail.com, the e-mail already on the card; its WhatsApp link carries phone=821055632875, the mobile the card already held. Of the 27 fields nulled on 2026-09-06 because their only sources were two 404 domains, 20 are re-captured true and 7 false; none is left null. contacts.website moved from the dead https://www.seoulsmileveneers.com/ to https://clairedental.kr/; contacts.phone moved from the mobile +82-10-5563-2875 to the published landline +82-2-555-2879 (the mobile stays as contacts.whatsapp, which is exactly what the site’s WhatsApp button dials); contacts.line filled from the footer link. The red flag opaque_prices is removed: /event/?mod=document&uid=18 publishes a standing non-covered fee notice table with 12 priced items (in units of KRW 10,000: resin 8/10/15, ceramic hybrid inlay 24, zirconia crown 40, ceramic crown 60, laminate 55, Osstem BA implant 59), so prices are no longer opaque. Doctor roster re-pointed to the live site: the clinic’s current medical-team page lists Yuna KIM (head director) and Beom Ju Lee (director) in the integrated-dentistry/oral-surgery role. Dr Hyun Kyu Kang, whose only support was the two dead domains, is no longer on the clinic’s published roster and is removed; Gang Baek-ho, also on that page, is a dental technician and is not recorded as a dentist. Sources s1 and gangnam-claire-dental-linkrot are kept and marked DEAD in their supports text; both were re-confirmed HTTP 404 on 2026-09-06. Untouched: licensing.clinicLicense (HIRA), reputation.google*, aiMention_*, googleIndexingQuality and geo. Not evidenced by the site and therefore left as they were: realClinicPhotos, hasXray, hasCBCT, offersSedation, responseSpeed, preConsultationPossible, hasStructuredData, respondsToReviews, recurringComplaints, suspiciousReviewPatterns, onTripAdvisor. |
| 2026-09-03 | 평가 방식 v1.3.1 | Clarified that the publication criteria refer to the clinic’s own channels: a service list, the names of the dentists and a price list count when the clinic itself publishes them (its website, its social profiles or its own Google Business profile) — registers, directories and review sites do not, and a time-limited promotional offer is not a price list. Added a third state for a dentist’s licence, "checked, not found in the public register": a dentist we searched for in the national register and did not find is now recorded as checked-but-unverified with the date of the check, instead of being shown either as "not checked yet" or as the "not published" red flag. Neither change alters any weight or penalty; the red-flag rule still fires only on a verified negative. Also corrected the wording of the penalty note under the ranking table, which rendered as "20−" in right-to-left dictionaries. |
| 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 (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service): clinic confirmed as registered 365 Seoul Wontap Chigwa-uiwon 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 | Claire Dental Clinic (클레어치과의원) | 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 ('Keulleeo Chigwa-uiwon' / 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 | Claire Dental Clinic (클레어치과의원) | License verification 2026-08-26 against HIRA (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service): clinic confirmed as registered Keulleeo Chigwa-uiwon 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 | Claire Dental Clinic (클레어치과의원) | Link-rot cleanup 2026-08-26: pruning 2 dead source(s) confirmed unreachable in an external-link check (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 | Claire Dental Clinic (클레어치과의원) | 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' (Dentikeu Chigwa-uiwon), same address. |
| 2026-08-26 | Gangnam Dentique Clinic | License verification 2026-08-26, re-checked 2026-08-26 against HIRA (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service): clinic confirmed as registered Dentikeu Chigwa-uiwon at the same street/building (Nonhyeon-ro 111-gil 3, Gangnam-gu); HIRA records the unit as B1F (basement level 1) 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 (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service): clinic confirmed as registered Gangnam Jenteul Chigwa-uiwon 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 copied 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' (Geullobeol Chigwa) at Itaewon-ro 142-1, 3rd floor matches record on file 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 (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service): clinic confirmed as registered Geullobeol Chigwa-uiwon 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 (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service): clinic confirmed as registered Rusideu Chigwa-uiwon 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 (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service): hospital confirmed as registered Miniswi Chigwa-byeongwon 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 (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service): clinic confirmed as registered Nyuyok S Chigwa-uiwon 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 (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service): hospital confirmed as registered Eseupeullanteu Chigwa-byeongwon 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 (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service): clinic confirmed as registered Seoul Oneul Chigwa-uiwon at 3F, 63 Dongsong-ro (Samsong-dong), Deogyang-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, 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', Seoul Oneul Chigwa-uiwon — 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 (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service): clinic confirmed as registered Seumail Seutyudio Chigwa-uiwon 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 (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service): clinic confirmed as registered Yonsei Hil Chigwa-uiwon 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 — no search route to Google, Maps, Bing, DuckDuckGo or Yandex was available on the date of reading. |
| 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 | Claire Dental Clinic (클레어치과의원) | 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: Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Mojeek, Brave and web.archive.org were all blocked, rate-limited or CAPTCHA-walled on the date of reading. Address, phone, and Google reputation could not be reconfirmed. Operating status unclear pending a working search route. |
| 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 — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Mojeek and Brave search were all blocked or CAPTCHA-walled on the date of reading; 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 — no search route to Google, Maps, Bing, DuckDuckGo or Yandex was available on the date of reading. |
| 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 (web search 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 — no search route to Google, Maps, Bing, DuckDuckGo or Yandex was available on the date of reading. |
| 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 requires JavaScript to render and returned no data to a direct request. |
| 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 — no search route to Google, Maps, Bing, DuckDuckGo or Yandex was available on the date of reading. |
| 2026-08-25 | S-Plant Dental Hospital | Re-verified live facts (website, contacts, operating status): no changes. Google reputation not captured — no search route to Google, Maps, Bing, DuckDuckGo or Yandex was available on the date of reading. |
| 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 — no search route to Google, Maps, Bing, DuckDuckGo or Yandex was available on the date of reading. |
| 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 — the Maps place page requires JavaScript to render and returned no data to a direct request. |
| 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 — no search route to Google, Maps, Bing, DuckDuckGo or Yandex was available on the date of reading. |
| 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. |
| 2026-08-25 | 평가 방식 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. |
| 2026-08-23 | 평가 방식 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 | Claire Dental Clinic (클레어치과의원) | 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 | 평가 방식 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 | 평가 방식 v1.0.0 | Initial public methodology. |