Treatment History, Kept for What's Next

Korean law requires medical clinics to keep your chart for years after your visit, and gives you the right to see or copy it. We keep your diagnosis results and treatment record in the same file, and we use that record, not a fresh guess, to decide when you should come back and for what.

If you're asking whether a clinic actually tracks what it did to you, the honest answer is: check whether the record follows you home, and whether it's the thing your next visit is built on. That's the part most patients never get to see, so here is how it works on our side.

What the Law Requires Us to Keep

Record-keeping for a clinic in Korea follows a specific legal duty. The Ministry of Health and Welfare's Enforcement Rules of the Medical Service Act, Article 15, sets specific retention periods by document type: medical and surgical records for 10 years, and test findings and imaging reports for 5 years. The Korea Medical Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Agency describes the same 10-year duty for medical records, alongside a patient's right, or a legal representative's right, to request access and copies.

That gives you a concrete question to ask any clinic before you commit to a treatment plan: what was done, where, and at what setting, on your last visit, and can you get a copy if you ask. If a clinic can't answer plainly, the record likely isn't structured enough to be useful for your next one.

How We Turn Records Into Your Next Plan

We keep diagnosis results and procedure details in one chart at our Gangnam location, so that the notes from your last visit are the starting point for the next one, not a summary someone has to reconstruct from memory. Dr. Kim Yeonjin, our director in Gangnam, carries diagnosis, treatment design, and the procedure itself through in sequence, which means the person deciding your next interval already knows what happened at the last one.

This matters most for lifting treatments, where new collagen needs months to settle after heat-based stimulation. At your first consultation, we log a follow-up checkpoint and a suggested retreatment interval, then compare that plan against how your skin actually responded at the next visit before adjusting the timing. We've laid out how those intervals typically run by treatment category in our guide to lifting and skin booster scheduling.

If you bring records or a treatment summary from a prior clinic, we factor in the area and timing where the documentation allows it. Without paperwork, we treat the information as recollection and plan more conservatively around it.

Care That Continues Across a Short Stay

Our Gangnam clinic sits on the second and third floors of the UH FLAT SIGNATURE Gangnam hotel building, so moving between a guest room and a consultation room doesn't mean stepping outside. For a visit of two to six nights, that layout lets us fit a procedure and a follow-up check into the same trip instead of asking you to plan a second one. Japanese, Chinese, and English interpreting staff are on site, so your next-visit plan gets confirmed in your own language before you leave. We've described the building layout in more detail in our guide to the clinic inside a Seoul hotel.

None of this replaces the record itself. The interpreter and the short-stay schedule exist to make sure you actually understand and can act on what the chart says, once you're back home.

FAQ

Can you factor in treatments I received at another clinic?

Yes, within what the documentation supports. If you bring a copy of prior medical records or a treatment confirmation, we reference the area and timing when designing your plan. Without documentation, we rely on recollection and plan conservatively around it.

Can I ask about my next-visit plan after I've returned home?

Yes. We confirm your recommended follow-up timing and home-care instructions before you leave, and any later questions about your progress can go through our on-site interpreting staff.

How do I request a copy of my own records?

You, or a legal representative acting on your behalf, can request a copy after an identity check. This is a right set out under Article 21 of the Medical Service Act, so no explanation of your reason is required.