Deus ex machina
a month ago
Experience
Private checkups are available. The concept is that the doctor comes to you, rather than you going there. Everyone is kind and considerate. It feels less like a factory.
Chaum
CHA Bio Group's Cheongdam life center, where the cell bank sits inside the clinic.
About Chaum
Chaum opened in 2010 on floors two and three of the P&Polus building in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul, as the consumer-facing clinic of CHA Bio Group. CHA is a listed Korean cell-therapy company, and that parentage is the whole point of the place: the cell bank is physically in the building rather than contracted out. The clinic runs a premium screening centre, ten outpatient departments and eight specialist clinics under one roof, and in 2025 it restyled itself from an anti-aging centre to a longevity centre. Its own framing is the "gray zone", the stretch between being well and being ill, which it argues is better managed by screening and prevention than by waiting for a diagnosis. What Chaum actually delivers in Seoul is narrower than the marketing suggests, and worth understanding before you book. The cell services on offer here are storage and autologous fat work: CHA Biotech's Bio Insurance banks your own immune cells for 35 years and adipose-derived stem cells for 20, and the CHAdiForm procedure separates a cell fraction from your own fat and grafts it back into your skin and fat tissue. Culture-expanded cell infusions are not offered in Korea. CHA's immune-cell therapy for cancer patients runs instead through a sister facility in Tokyo, opened in 2014, because Japanese law permits clinic-level cell therapy that Korean law does not. The staff list runs to 34 physicians, many of them CHA University professors or former department heads from Severance, Yonsei and Asan, and the International Healthcare Center staffs separate English, Chinese and Russian lines.
- Opened 2010 as CHA Bio Group's Cheongdam life center; restyled from anti-aging to longevity in 2025
- CHA Biotech's cell bank runs from the same building: own immune cells stored 35 years, adipose stem cells 20
- Publishes its full statutory non-covered fee schedule, from โฉ110,000 PRP to โฉ3,520,000 full-face fat grafting
- 34 physicians, including CHA University professors and former department chairs from Severance, Yonsei and Asan
- Ten outpatient departments and eight specialist clinics on two floors of the P&Polus building
- International Healthcare Center runs separate English, Chinese and Russian lines with bilingual nurse interpreters
- Premium screening happens in private rooms where staff and equipment come to the patient
- Team size
- 51-200
- Physicians
- 34
- Languages
- Korean, English, Chinese, Russian
- Locations
- 1
Treatments & focus
Stem Cell Banking / Storage30%
Adipose-Derived Stem Cell Therapy30%
IV / Systemic Cell Therapy20%
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP)20%
Cell sources
Adipose (fat)Autologous
Accreditations & certifications
Board-Certified Physicians
Hospital Affiliation
Accreditations are records-based and do not imply endorsement of any treatment's safety or efficacy.
Pricing snapshot
Starting from
โฉ110,000
โ $80
per treatment
Typical range
โฉ110,000 to โฉ3,520,000
โ $80 to $2,600
Korean law requires clinics to publish their non-covered fees, and Chaum does. Published items run from โฉ110,000 for a partial-area PRP or an IV vitamin infusion up to โฉ3,520,000 for a full-face fat graft with stem cells; a basic stem-cell fat graft is โฉ220,000 and an NK cell activity test โฉ150,000. Cell banking and the premium checkup packages are the exception and are quoted individually by phone.
USD figures are estimates converted at 1,343.8 KRW to 1 USD, the reference rate on 2026-09-10. The clinic bills in KRW.
Pricing is indicative and set by each clinic. Confirm the final cost directly before treatment.
Patient reviews
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3.7 out of 53 reviews
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5.0 out of 5
S L
2 years ago
Experience
I went here for a facial and other treatments. It was ok but the problem is they charge foreigners more. I went to another clinic and found the prices to be fair. You can find clinics that do the same if not better at a fairer price.
albert limanto
a year ago
Experience
This Chaum is a high end medical center (they combine a high tech, future treatment to a medical check up). Their program is amazing and out of the box. The medical facilities and the building facilities is amazing. Anti aging, if you looking for the true meaning of anti aging, you should go here.
What Chaum looks like elsewhere
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Google reviews
3.2out of 5 on Google from 33 ratings
Reviewers talk mostly about cost, several saying prices ran multiples of Korean university hospitals, and about the facilities, described by some as cafe like. Views on doctor communication split, and some one star ratings reference a past political controversy rather than care. A mirror of these reviews on MyMediTravel averages 2.9 across 16.
Most-mentioned on Google
cost versus other hospitalsfacility atmospherehealth checkup systemdoctor communication
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Reddit discussion
Mixedacross 2 threads
Reddit discussion of Chaum is thin. In one r/koreatravel thread, commenters called the prices high, said they had not heard of the brand, and suggested university hospitals instead. A r/SeoulPlasticSurgery poster asked whether Chaum's Evercell clinic requesting a passport before booking was normal, and replies said that is standard for international patients.
Recurring points
high costlow name recognitionpreference for university hospitalspassport requested before bookingbeauty and dermatology focus
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Team
KJ
Kim Jae-hwa
Chief Director
Signs the director's greeting on Chaum's own site, where he frames the clinic around Thomas Edison's line that the doctor of the future will give no medicine but interest patients in diet, the human frame, and the prevention of disease. He describes Chaum as a triple system combining Western, Korean and alternative medicine, with the next phase weighted toward health promotion rather than detection alone. Chaum publishes his name, title and greeting but no CV, so his specialty board is not on record.
HK
Han Kwang-hyub
Professor, Gastroenterology
MD, MS
Liver disease and the Healthy Longevity Clinic. Formerly professor at Yonsei University College of Medicine, director of the Liver Center at Severance Hospital and chief professor of internal medicine at Yonsei. Past president of the International Association for the Study of the Liver and a founding president of the Asia-Pacific Primary Liver Cancer Expert Association.
CJ
Choi Joong-eon
Professor, Neurosurgery
MD
Runs the Neuro-Musculoskeletal Clinic. Dean of CHA University's Graduate School of Integrative Medicine and formerly hospital director at CHA Bundang Medical Center, chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Severance Children's Hospital and chair professor of neurosurgery at Yonsei. Trained at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and the Institute of Neurology in London.
KJ
Kim Jong-seok
Professor, Power Aging Clinic
MD, board-certified in Family Medicine
Works in functional and integrative medicine, immune testing and anti-aging. Dean of CHA University's Graduate School of Integrative Medicine and an executive committee member of the Korean Stem Cell Society. Has published on vitamin D, DHEA-S and metabolic markers between 2012 and 2021.
LY
Lee Young-soo
Professor, Geriatric Medicine
MD
Manages degenerative conditions and functional decline in the Power Aging Clinic. Former professor and department chair of geriatric medicine at Asan Medical Center Seoul, past president of the Korean Geriatrics Society, and a board member of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics.
KY
Kim Young-tak
Professor, Immune Enhancement Clinic
MD
Listed by the clinic for cancer care, immune cell therapy and stem cell therapy. Chaum publishes his specialty fields but no education or career detail.
Verification
Not yet verified
This clinic has not completed verification. Listings are still curated, but accreditation hasn't been confirmed.
- 2 accreditations on file
- 3 verified-eligible reviews
Location
2F-3F, P&Polus Building, 442 Dosan-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea, 06062HQ
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