1. Why did you choose KC?
I had managed to overcome a pseudoarthrosis in my lower leg, and my height was about average, but I still wondered if I could somehow make it to the latter half of 170, and I was born with a leg length difference of 3mm in my femur, which combined with the leg length difference caused by the amount of extension in my lower leg, made me feel quite uncomfortable even when walking normally, so I wanted to do a large leg I was thinking about doing a thigh. Then I found KC through a post by a mutual follower of X.
In the end, I chose to do a thigh LON at KC because of the following points.
I wanted to do it again as soon as possible.
I knew from my lower leg experience that I had a very poor bone formation and that Japanese hospitals could not treat complications even at their own expense, so I could not afford the complications, even though my femur has relatively better bone formation than my tibia.
In Korea, if there was something, for example, a screw fracture, I could go relatively (but still foreign) quickly.
The femoral LON was easy to get because it cost 41 million won (about 4.5 million at that time) in KC at that time.
The reason why I did not use a prescythe (this was a mistake because I was held hostage by the KC side for the external fixation) was because bone formation was poor and I thought that the amount of extension could not be extended much anyway. However, LON's intramedullary nail does not have any problem even if it is not extracted.
Other hospitals in Korea require frequent visits for rehabilitation, and in some cases, patients use the subway to go to the hospital, but we decided against this because we thought it would be dangerous to go to the hospital in a wheelchair, even with a caregiver, because of the risk of falling down along the way. (In fact, the wheelchair ride from the hotel where the patient was staying felt very dangerous even with a caregiver, and the risk of falling and falling alone is unimaginable.)
These are the above points.
Amount of extension
The standard amount of extension proposed by the KC side is as follows
Lower leg LON 6-7 cm
Lower leg prescissors 6-7 cm
Thigh LON 5-6 cm
Thigh precise 7-8cm
However, this is for Koreans who have no limit to the length of their stay in Korea.
KC has a policy of sending foreign patients home within 3 months.
Therefore, it is my impression that the actual amount of extension for foreign patients is often about 1cm minus the above.
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VIOLENCE in yonsei kim & chung orthopedic clinic
2, Preliminary visit to Korea
Around July 2023, when I was wondering what to do with the yen that had not stopped depreciating, I remembered the existence of KC, which I had found on X. I had e-mailed them before, but I did not end up going to KC.
I had emailed them before, but I never went to KC.
When I contacted them again, I was told that the rules had changed and that I could only make a reservation after paying 33,000 yen for the couse in advance.
After some agonizing, I sent the money, took a plane, and flew to Korea.
When I arrived at the hospital by cab and told the receptionist my name, I was asked if I had paid the fee. Apparently, it was OK to pay later.
I was greeted by a rather petite woman sitting beside me, who I thought was an interpreter hired by the hospital. I found out later in the chat that she was a Japanese woman married to a Korean.
After that, I went into the examination room and had a counseling session with the doctor.
The contents of the consultation were itemized as follows
If you do it at our place, you don't have to worry about pseudoarthrosis or deep infection. I am sure you had a hard time with your Vietnamese tibia. We have never had a case of bone graft or deep infection. (I trust you on this point as we have actually talked about it)
In Korea, it was somewhat troublesome to renew the visa, including proof of balance, but if you have a 5-6 cm target for femoral LON treatment, it will almost definitely be over within 3 months.
If there is any problem, you can return to your country once with the external fixation.
If you are not aiming for 8cm in prescision, IT band release is not necessary.
Since hospitalization is too stressful, can I bring my father with me and stay in a hotel?
The consultation with the doctor was over, and I had a meeting with the office manager (the person at the center of the later trouble) in another room.
We discussed fees and where to stay.
The cause of pseudoarthrosis of the tibia in Vietnam was due to the osteotomy, position, and handling of the periosteum during the osteotomy, while the femur is only a problem when bone formation is too fast, so there is no worry about pseudoarthrosis. (I felt that the technique was also very high in Korea, and the handling of the periosteum was a point I had never heard of even in Japan).
The impression I got was very good and positive. I found out later that he may have wanted to have a patient anyway. You may make an appointment for surgery now. If there is any inconvenience, it can be changed immediately. Knowing that Korea charges a lot for rehabilitation, I asked about this point twice through the interpreter, but he just smiled and brushed it off.
To be honest, I was not so calm myself when I thought about what would happen later....
I returned home with a bullet, talked with my family, and decided to schedule my surgery for mid-September.
I then transferred the money for the surgery and preliminary tests via TransferWise, which was about 4.6 million at the rate of the time.
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3. surgery
Then, as planned, I went to Korea in mid-September 2023 and underwent surgery.
I boarded a plane at midnight on the day of admission, stayed at the McDonald's until morning, and entered the hospital first thing in the morning to be admitted. The hospital's dedicated interpreter was actually hired before I arrived and we exchanged lines.
They explained to me beforehand that I would need a nurse and that the total cost would be about 100,000.
I wish they would have told me that first...
Then I also had a meeting with the office manager,
If you don't take rehabilitation, you have to take other optional treatments anyway, such as ultrasound treatment.
If you don't take rehabilitation, you should take any other optional treatment such as ultrasound (and drop the money to KC)," the office manager told me through an interpreter.
In addition, I was told for the first time in the contract just before the surgery
1、Patients cannot refuse to post videos of interviews and treatment on Youtube, etc. (mosaic and audio processing will be done).
2. If the knee is bent, the external fixation is not removed.
2, If the knee is bent, they will not remove the external fixation.
To be honest, the first point in particular concerns the patient's privacy, and it is threatening to tell the patient about it right before the surgery,
I think it is almost intimidating to tell them this just before the surgery,
However, I was in a foreign country, so I could not do anything.
If you look at KC's youtube page, you will see that all the foreign patients that I know of are in the video.
I know that all the foreign patients I know are in the video.
On the other hand, I know some of the domestic patients, but they are not in the video.
If a domestic patient is made to sign a document asking to cooperate in the monitoring just before the
If they were asked to sign a document asking them to cooperate with the monitoring immediately before the video, it would cause a lot of problems, including legal action.
This is just a guess, but it is highly likely that KC imposes mandatory monitoring only on foreign patients.
The interpreter told me that this is an advertisement for a Korean hospital and that there is no problem for you, a Japanese patient. However, KC has recently made a video for Japanese people, which is a totally sophomoric statement!
I later realized that KC has cameras everywhere in the hospital, including examination rooms and rehabilitation rooms.
I later realized that there are cameras everywhere in KC's hospital, including examination rooms and rehabilitation rooms. The following video was taken without prior explanation. Of course, this is stated in the contract that is written just before the surgery, so the patient cannot refuse the explanation.
When I asked the interpreter about the camera, he gave me a vague answer.
(Incidentally, this video was taken secretly, and it was not said that it would be filmed in the future, and the audio includes the author's voice in places without processing.
At this point, my distrust of KC was quite high, and in fact, it was right.
The doctor also said, "Rehabu! Is! Impotento!" and said the same thing as any doctor.
The surgery went well, although the nerve block anesthesia before the surgery was painful.
After the surgery, I was more sleepy than painful (which was a good thing).
I didn't remember much during my hospital stay. The day before he was discharged, his father arrived.
He then stayed at a hotel and continued his extension.
The pain from the thigh extension was so severe that the painkillers the hospital gave me did not work at all,
It was very painful.
Therefore, I asked my father to go to the hospital for consultation, and after the extension was completed, he made a promise to remove the external wound fixation immediately.
I asked my father to consult with the hospital and promised to remove the external fixation immediately after the extension was completed.
When the amount of extension reached 4 cm, it is very difficult! I was told that my bone formation was poor.
Oh... I knew that the painkillers the hospital had prescribed were no longer effective, and there was a risk of infection from wearing the external fixation any longer, and I couldn't take it anymore.
Looking back, I wonder if the fact that he was hospitalized once for removal of external fixation was a kind of theatricality.
Was it some kind of theatricality?
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4, Assault
The day before the surgery, with the IV route already in place, I was told that an x-ray was going to be taken.
When I told the interpreter that my leg was bent due to joint contracture of the knee, he said he would do something about it.
I was put on the x-ray table, and when the doctor gave me some instructions, I was taken down from the x-ray table and taken to another room.
There, I was told that I could not undergo surgery without external fixation and that I had to do rehabilitation.
I insisted that the amount of extension had been measured by x-rays from the side, and that I would have the leg length difference determined by x-rays of the entire lower limb, but the other party ignored me.
I told them that I would write a written oath and ask them to remove it, but they said that if I did that, they would later write bad things about me on the Internet.
But they wouldn't take me up on the offer because they said that if I did, they would write something bad about me on the Internet later.
They also told me that the doctor ordered me to stay in the hospital for 2 weeks.
I learned later that they were not going to let me leave the country. I found out later that this was to prevent me from returning to Japan.
This was the reason why I was hospitalized even though they were not going to remove the external fixation.
Naturally, I was discharged from the hospital after that, but they charged me for the wasted hospitalization expenses.
In my room, the office manager called out loudly for me to sharap.
The interpreter didn't translate what I said, only what they insisted.
They also claimed that the rehab fee was explained to me beforehand.
This was the purpose of the sharap.
KC's demand was that I should receive rehabilitation twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon.
(Actually, two sessions each in the morning and afternoon, worth 80,000 yen a day.)
When I said that was impossible, the office manager bowed and said "kamsahamnida~" and was about to leave.
and was about to walk away. The conversation here was a threat to remove the external fixation
The conversation here was a threat of external fixation.
The conversation ended there and I was taken to the rehabilitation room.
At that time, I was in so much pain that I screamed out loudly.
Shallap again," the office manager shouted at me! the office manager shouted.
He restrained my arms and covered my mouth.
After that, the physical therapy continued in tremendous pain,
They said it was to see my current condition, but it was just an assault.
I told the interpreter that any more was assault! I told him I would call the police.
The interpreter ignored him.
On the contrary, I had to explain to the other patients why I was shouting so loud! He cursed me.
My father was instructed by the hospital to go to another floor.
He did not follow the instructions.
The assault was premeditated.
The next day, they did the same thing to him,
He was taken to a back room to continue his physical therapy.
I could not take it any longer, so I told them that I would change my flight schedule and that I wanted to take it slow, and with that I was finally released from the assault.
From the perspective of the victimized author, it was almost like a lynching.
Of course, I had to pay the fee for changing the flight.
The hospital set up rehabilitation four times a day without our permission,
The rehabilitation fee was over 20,000 yen per session, so the total cost was 90,000 yen per day.
When my father said he could not pay this, the fee was reduced to 40,000 yen the next day.
At this time, the doctor also ordered him to be hospitalized for two weeks (the hospitalization cost was 10,000 yen per day). (The hospitalization cost was about 10,000 yen per day.) I refused and managed to get out of it.
Apparently, this was to prevent me from leaving the country.
I felt that I could return for an extension if I wanted to.
My feelings at that time
I was set up... I should call the embassy... No, it is impossible because it is a non-intervention by a civil law... I don't care if I was assaulted or not, I can't go against the hospital as long as the external fixation is attached and cannot be removed in Japan... What should I do... I didn't know this would happen....
5，Paying 40,000 yen every day just for rehabilitation
After that, I spent every day paying more than 40,000 yen for rehabilitation.
A few days after being discharged from the pointless hospitalization, I was told in the treatment room that the bending of my knee had improved considerably.
The head of the office came to check on my knee, but he shook his head and left without even looking at the condition of my knee. He shook his head and walked away without even examining the condition of the author's knee.
When my father asked the office manager what he was going to do if he exceeded the three-month period of visa-free stay in Korea, the office manager replied, "That will never happen.
This suggests that he was planning to exploit my father's fee by making me undergo rehabilitation for a certain period of time from the very beginning. In other words, it didn't matter what the bend in my knee was.
In the end, even though the purpose of the rehabilitation was to accurately measure the amount of extension, no adjustment to the amount of extension was necessary even after the final x-rays were taken, and the rehabilitation ended without adjustment.
Most of the rehabilitation had nothing to do with knee bending, but rather with bending the knee to increase range of motion.
The physical therapist who worked on me was apparently out of work and could do four sessions every day without a problem, and the time could easily be changed.
The rehabilitation was rough and I was constantly bleeding from the pin site.
When I checked with the interpreter about the bleeding, he looked distant.
He didn't look at me and just said it was normal.
They said it was because he had not been rehabilitated before.
Even though I was doing rehabilitation, the bleeding continued.
I later asked the physical therapist not to pull too hard when touching my body
I asked him not to touch the pin site and the bleeding improved.
In the midst of all this, I did not see a doctor for over two weeks.
What would he do if it got infected?
In fact, as predicted, going to rehab every day for rehabilitation was a road trip, falls, car accidents, etc.
It was dangerous, and it would have been impossible for him to go to rehab every day without a caregiver.
Such a situation lasted for more than two weeks, and the hospital was at odds with him.
The interpreter told my father that he should return to Japan! The interpreter told my father that he should return to Japan!
After two weeks, when my father asked for an x-ray, a doctor finally came, examined him, and said that an x-ray could be taken if the knee was bent in this way.
The office manager even came in during the examination and listened to what I had to say.
The hospital or the office manager probably wanted to delay the removal of the external fixation device for as long as possible and use it as a hostage to extract money for rehabilitation.
What consistently strikes me as odd is that the office manager, who is not a doctor, has the authority to intervene and interfere in knee bends, treatment plans, and so on.
The rehabilitation fee paid to KC ended up exceeding 1 million yen.
From October 25 to November 15, when he was out of the external fixation, he was treated by the office manager as if he were a doctor.
The office manager was making all kinds of decisions about the author's treatment, as if he were a doctor.
When I asked to speak with a doctor, I was told that it was impossible; first of all, the interpreter answered at his own discretion, and then he told me that he had no idea what to do.
The interpreter first responded on his own judgment and did not even inform the office manager, and it was useless even if my father told him.
6, then
After removing the external fixation, I stayed in Korea for about two weeks and returned home.
When I returned to the hotel after having the external fixation removed, I cried and rejoiced with my father that I was finally free from that hospital.
After returning to Japan, I went for an x-ray.
The bone had almost formed within six months, and all that remained was to wait for the bone to mature into a more normal bone.
But one problem was discovered: the distal part of his left leg was fractured.
The pin site is the starting point.
I don't know when the fracture occurred, if it was during extension, it's not a problem, but if it was during rehabilitation, we need to remove the external fixation of the wound as soon as possible. By the way, I have not heard from KC about the fracture, let alone the doctor.
The scariest thing is that when it comes to money, that takes precedence over medical matters.
Rehab while pin sites are bleeding carries the risk of pin site infection and eventually deep infection.
Also, in the case of the pin site fracture, if the patient had been wearing the external fixation for longer than that, there was a risk of a transverse fracture of the whole body.
If the pin site fracture had been kept in place for any longer, there was a risk of a transverse fracture of the entire body.
The reason why the rehabilitation was unusually painful may have been because of that fracture.
It is unclear whether the fracture occurred during the extension or due to the rough rehabilitation, but we would not expect a sincere answer from the hospital.
They told me on line that they were not trying to make money, but they can say whatever they want with their mouths.
That rehab rather increased the risk of complications.
The knee bending was done by the office manager during the process and he shook his head without even looking at the bending of my knee. I guess he was planning from the beginning not to remove the external fixation in order to extract money for rehabilitation, so he was going to say that the knee was still bent, making it difficult to determine how bent it was.
It's not right for a hospital to have the office manager, who is not a doctor, meddle so much in medical matters.
I have a feeling of distrust...well, I have nothing but distrust now.
Even now, when I recall the time when the office manager held my mouth and arm and rehabilitated my broken bone site with extreme pain, my heart still pounds just by listening to his loud voice.
The amount of extension was shortened by the rehab and the fracture, and my left leg shrunk to 2,7 cm.
I really regret not having done this with KC.
If it wasn't for your post, I would have most likely gotten surgery at Yonsei Kim hospital. But your post gave me so much doubt and negative feelings towards Yonsei Kim. Every story has two sides. I am sure Yonsei has their own side of your story. But there is a grain of truth to every story. And your story seems to have many grains of truth. I've watched their Youtube videos. And I couldn't help notice how negatively Dr. Chung talked about his past patients. Why talk badly about your past patients? Do you know why I've asked you if you did Tibia surgery in Vietnam? Because Dr. Chung was talking very badly about a Japanese patient who did his tibia surgery in Vietnam on his Youtube video. And that the Japanese patients is posting negative comments about him and his hospital. I don't understand why they would air out their dirty laundry on a public social media forum like Youtube. Their lastest Youtube video about their contract. That video was meant for me. Because I've asked them to see the contract. Because if I can't see it on contract, I don't believe you. You say you have this special sale for Month of June and July. But how can I believe that unless I see it on writing. They could charge me so many hidden fees and expenses after I sign their contract. So when they said they don't send contract via email, that's when I knew they were full of crap. And I thought about how they won't send you your xray images via email and so on. Dr. Chung said on his video you are mad at them because they won't measure your overall height gain on your femur. But he didn't mention you being assaulted and battered by office manager Shin. Maybe Shin and Dr. Chung are good friends. I don't know. Also, the person I was corresponding with tells everything back to Dr. Chung. It's like she is his eyes and ears. So I had problem with them not sending their contract. So next day they make a Youtube video about their contract. I couldn't believe what I was seeing on Youtube. Just because I had a problem with them about their contract, they make a Youtube video about it. Also, I had concern about getting a quadrilateral surgery. Guess what? Next day they made a Youtube video about the fears of quadrilateral surgery. They are wild and out of control. I am very glad I didn't send even one dime to them. They wanted a 10% downpayment on their surgery. But without a valid contract for me to see, hell no I am doing that. This will probably be my last post on Yonsei Kim. Please be wary of this hospital. If they mistreat one patient like Shi, they will do the same to you. At least they have the potential and ability to especially if you are an international patient in a foreign land where you have limited rights.
They said they value their internet reputation. But their actions are the exact opposite, assaulting patients, I don't think they care about their internet reputation, I really don't understand.
recently they made aX account and attacked me
https://x.com/lengthening74/status/1803994820421259738
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