About Skinbound
Plain-English guides to Korean dermatology procedures for international visitors — how they work, downtime, typical price ranges and trip planning, with a source for every fact.
How our guides are made
- Topics come from what international visitors search for and ask about.
- An AI model gathers facts, and every fact must cite a source — peer-reviewed research, government and professional-society pages first. Clinic websites are never used as sources for medical claims.
- The draft is checked automatically against Korean medical-advertising rules, every source page is fetched and compared with the claim, and a second AI model from a different company reviews it.
- A person on our team reads and approves every post before it is published.
Our guides are general information, not medical advice, and are not written or reviewed by a doctor. Results and side effects vary from person to person — always consult a licensed doctor.
What we never do
- No clinic rankings, "best clinic" lists, patient testimonials or before-and-after photos.
- No clinic recommendations or booking links in our independent guides, and no payment from clinics for those guides.
- Route guides may end with a list of every clinic with a dermatology department near the route, taken from Korean government public data and sorted by distance only. Clinics cannot pay to be added, removed or moved in that list; advertisers are marked.
- Some route guides show one small card labeled Ad for a clinic in the same area. It is a flat-fee advertisement, not a recommendation, and it does not change the guide's text or the clinic list.
Sponsored posts
Some posts are advertisements paid for by a licensed clinic at a flat fee, or produced free of charge during a short partner pilot. They are always labeled Sponsored or Partner and as an advertisement at the top, the clinic is the advertiser and approves the final text, links to the clinic are marked as sponsored, and the same accuracy and advertising rules apply. Clinics cannot pay to appear in, or influence, the text of our independent guides.