The full comparison
China. Korea.
What you are comparing
~2,500 GRAFT FUE, TYPICAL CASE China
LISTED-CHAIN AUDITED AVERAGE, FY2025 Korea
STATUTORY PUBLISHED FEE SCHEDULE + THE MEDICAL SERVICE ACT Who may legally perform the extraction
A physician, or staff under one AESTHETICS REGULATION §18: BY, OR UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF, THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN; ONLY A NON-BINDING STANDARD RESERVES EXTRACTION TO THE SURGEON
The surgeon only MEDICAL SERVICE ACT §27: DELEGATION TO NON-LICENSED STAFF IS PROHIBITED OUTRIGHT, NOT LICENSED
What the price is quoted per
Per case ALL-INCLUSIVE BY TRANSPLANT AREA AND DOCTOR GRADE SINCE FEB 2023
Per hair 1 FOLLICLE ≈ 2 HAIRS: A SEOUL 3,000 IS NOT AN ISTANBUL 3,000
Non-shaven option
A named product tier YONGHE MARKETS A NO-SHAVE TIER TO BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS AND PUBLIC FIGURES; NO PRICE PUBLISHED
A standard category SHAVEN AND NON-SHAVEN ARE LISTED AS SEPARATE STANDARD CATEGORIES DOMESTICALLY
Revision if grafts fail
A signed pledge, no terms YONGHE'S '5+5' GUARANTEE IS SIGNED BY THE PHYSICIAN; NO RE-GRAFT OR REFUND TERM IS PUBLISHED
Contracted AGREED IN WRITING BEFORE YOU TRAVEL: OUR OWN TERM, NOT MARKET DATA
All-in price, ~2,500 grafts
$2,850 AVERAGE SPEND PER PATIENT, NOT NORMALISED TO A GRAFT COUNT
$4,900–11,800 SURGERY ONLY: WE LOSE THIS ROW TO EVERY ASIAN MARKET EXCEPT JAPAN
The surgeon onlyin Seoul, where delegation is prohibited by law
Or under oneShanghai's rule: a physician, or staff under their guidance
5 : 1nurses to doctors at the chain that did 71,400 cases
What the unit actually means Yonghe Medical (HKEX 02279) FY2025 annual report, as reported by 21st Century Business Herald (https://m.21jingji.com/article/20260401/herald/8ab37652bb3ecb10351f10781d7c538a_zaker.html), measured 2026-07-28. Chinese figure: Yonghe Medical (HKEX 02279) FY2025 annual report, released 2026-03-31, reporting 71,400 hair transplant patients at an average spend of RMB 19,300 per patient, down from RMB 22,300 in 2024, across 63 institutions in 61 cities.
This is an average spend per patient, not a price for 2,500 grafts, and it is not comparable graft-for-graft with the other pages on this site; the row note says so.
Converted at ECB rates of 2026-07-27. Korean price: one Seoul clinic's statutory non-covered fee schedule, 4,500-hair band (≈2,250+ grafts). n=1, and labelled as such.
Regulatory, non-shaven and revision rows collected 2026-07-29: China's Medical Aesthetics Services Administrative Measures §11/§18 (nhc.gov.cn: attending-physician responsibility; performed by or under the guidance of a qualified attending physician) with hair transplantation listed as a Level-1 cosmetic-surgery item in the 2009 graded-catalog notice, No. 220;
no Chinese law allocates extraction versus implantation between surgeon and staff;
the split exists only in the voluntary industry standard T/CAPA 3-2021 §5.4–5.5 (surgeon extracts, qualified nurses may separate and implant), which its own drafters' trade press describes as non-binding;
Yonghe Medical's IPO prospectus p.165 (hkexnews.hk: anaesthesia, follicular extraction and incision performed by physicians personally; implantation absent from that list) and FY2025 annual report (221 doctors, 1,037 nurses; the no-shave product positioned as a named offering; the '5+5' guarantee document signed by the treating physician, with no re-graft or refund term published in any filing checked).
