디지털아트치과의원 (Digital Art Dental Clinic)
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 57.2/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #17 of 26 ranked clinics · Last checked: 6 September 2026
57.2/100
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#1757.2/100
- Best for Expats#1352.5/100
- Best for Dental Implants#1851.5/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#2039.2/100
- Best English-speaking Clinicsnot ranked
- Best for Families / Childrennot ranked
- Sleep Dentistry (GA / deep sedation)not ranked
General Anaesthesia & Deep Sedation
Whether the clinic documents treatment under general anaesthesia or deep / twilight sedation — "sleep dentistry", where the patient is asleep and unaware (does not feel, see, or hear the procedure). Ordinary conscious sedation, where the patient stays awake and responsive, does not count here. This is informational and does not affect the transparency score.
- ? General anaesthesia / deep sedation (sleep dentistry) — Not verified
Summary
Seomyeon clinic occupying three floors of the Donga Building, organised around implantology, conservative dentistry and periodontology with a team the clinic describes as seven dentists. It publishes Korean, English and Japanese versions of its site and documents treated cases of several named international patients. Registered with HIRA as Dijiteol Ateu Chigwa-uiwon, provider code 21512574, opened 2016-05-24.
The Latin name Digital Art Dental Clinic is published by the clinic itself in its schema.org alternateName, so no romanisation was invented. Two items on the clinic's own site could not be read without a browser and are: the non-covered treatment fee table, which opens as a JavaScript modal (href="javascript:void(0)"), and the seven-dentist roster on the medical-team page, which is rendered as images with no alt text. Only the director, Shin Jun-hyeok, is named in machine-readable text. Coordinates come from the HIRA register, not from a Google Maps place page.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 20 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 15 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published; cleaning price listed; filling price listed; crown price listed; implant price listed; consultation price listed; x-ray / imaging price listed)
Score Breakdown
Every criterion below is scored from public sources. ✓ verified yes · ✗ verified no / not found · ◐ partial · ? unverified (scores 0, not a negative finding).
Information Transparency
20 / 20
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Corrected 2026-09-06. The research pass could read only Shin Jun-hyeok because the roster cards on /doctors are lazy-rendered and do not appear in the served HTML. Scrolled into view in a browser, all seven dentists are published as ordinary text under their photographs: Shin Jun-hyeok (head director), and directors Im Jae-seong, Choi Yang-jeong, Kim Min-hae, Lee Hae-ju, Park Seong-ho and Shin Min-jeong. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Filled 2026-09-06 from the clinic's own roster page, read in a browser: Im Jae-seong, board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon; Choi Yang-jeong, board-certified in conservative dentistry; Kim Min-hae, board-certified in conservative dentistry; Lee Hae-ju, board-certified periodontist; Park Seong-ho, board-certified in Advanced General Dentistry; Shin Min-jeong, board-certified in conservative dentistry; and Shin Jun-hyeok, head director, under high-difficulty implants. Six of the seven carry a named board specialty, which is what the research pass could not read from the image-based layout. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos A clinic-tour section of the premises plus clinical case photography, with a copyright notice claiming all site photographs as the clinic's own. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Implants (systemic-disease, full-arch, navigation, computer-analysed, revision, implant dentures), conservative dentistry (caries, root canal, retreatment), periodontology (periodontitis, peri-implantitis), laminates, preventive clinic and whitening. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Phone, e-mail, road-name address, parking instructions and business registration number in the site footer; phone and address match the HIRA register. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | English website version KR / EN / JP language switcher in the site header, with the English version served from digitalartdc-a.imweb.me. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published [s3] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
0 / 15
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published Refuted in a rendering browser on 2026-09-06. The research pass recorded that the clinic does publish a non-covered treatment fee schedule but that the link is a JavaScript modal that could not be opened automatically. Opened in Chrome, the footer element is a bare <a href="javascript:void(0);"> with no onclick attribute and no bound handler: clicking it, both programmatically and with the mouse, opens nothing on the home page and nothing on /doctors, no fixed-position overlay appears, and the served HTML of either page contains neither the Hangul string for 'non-covered fees' nor that for 'treatment fee schedule' nor any fee figure. The footer carries the label of a fee schedule without the schedule behind it, so this is recorded as not published rather than as unread. [s1] [s2] | 0/3 |
| ✗ | Cleaning price listed No fee schedule exists behind the footer link (see pricesPublished), and no figure for scaling appears anywhere on the site. [s1] [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Filling price listed No fee schedule exists behind the footer link (see pricesPublished), and no figure for a filling appears anywhere on the site. [s1] [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Crown price listed No fee schedule exists behind the footer link (see pricesPublished), and no figure for a crown appears anywhere on the site. [s1] [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Implant price listed No fee schedule exists behind the footer link (see pricesPublished), and no figure for an implant appears anywhere on the site, although implants are the clinic's headline service. [s1] [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed No fee schedule exists behind the footer link (see pricesPublished), and no consultation fee appears anywhere on the site. [s1] [s2] | 0/2 |
| ✗ | X-ray / imaging price listed No fee schedule exists behind the footer link (see pricesPublished), and no imaging fee appears anywhere on the site. [s1] [s2] | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
12.5 / 20
Public review signals. The Google rating is adjusted with a Bayesian prior (rating 4.0, weight 25) so a 5.0 from a handful of reviews does not outrank a 4.8 from hundreds.
| ◐ | Google rating (Bayesian-adjusted) Star histogram read live on 2026-09-06 from the place page: 20 five-star, 0 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star, 3 one-star. The buckets sum to 23, matching the 23 in the place-page header exactly, and the weighted mean 4.478 reproduces the published 4.5. [gmp1] | 3/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Read live on 2026-09-06 from the place-page header; the star histogram sums to the same figure. [gmp1] | 1/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency Newest Google review is dated 2026-09-06 (listing read 2026-09-26). [digital-art-dental-busan-gbp-2026-09-26] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clinic responds to reviews The owner replied to two of the three reviews Google renders. Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order. A newest-first sort was not available; a re-check on the Reviews tab returned the same three reviews, so no fresher slice is available. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ? | No recurring complaints | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No suspicious review patterns The 20/0/0/0/3 shape is a divided base, not the five-star inflation with a thin negative tail that manipulation produces, and the three visible reviewers hold 26, 399 and 1 reviews respectively - real account variety. Sample: the 3 reviews Google Maps renders on the place page in its own relevance order. A newest-first sort was not available; a re-check on the Reviews tab returned the same three reviews, so no fresher slice is available. [gmp1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Active Facebook presence Active Facebook page: newest post 24 September 2026. [digital-art-dental-busan-presence-2] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Digital Art Dental Clinic Busan" and "Digital Art"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [digital-art-dental-busan-tripadvisor] [digital-art-dental-busan-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Listed on Naver Place, South Korea's main local review platform, with 913 visitor reviews. [digital-art-dental-busan-presence] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
10 / 15
The range of publicly documented equipment and services. This measures documented availability, not clinical quality.
| ✓ | On-site X-ray HIRA's equipment register records a cone-beam CT at this institution. [reg2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) Returned by the HIRA institution search filtered on equipment code 12 (cone-beam CT) for Busan / dental clinic; the clinic markets computer-analysed and navigation implant planning. [reg2] [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Orthodontics The full service navigation was read: implants, conservative dentistry, periodontology, laminates, preventive care and whitening. No orthodontic service appears. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Full-arch and revision implant surgery in medically compromised patients. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Pediatric dentistry No children's dentistry appears in the service navigation. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care No emergency or same-day route is documented; the clinic is closed on public holidays. [s3] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients English and Japanese versions of the site, and published treatment cases of named international patients. [s1] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
4 / 10
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available Booking runs through the site's own form, phone and Naver reservation; no WhatsApp or LINE. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken | 0/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible A booking and consultation enquiry form promises a call back after review, alongside Naver reservation. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations Each treatment page carries a plain-language description and a stated risk disclaimer that side effects may occur. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Weekdays 10:00–18:00 and Saturdays 10:00–14:00 with no lunch break; closed on public holidays. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
5 / 10
Whether the clinic is discoverable when patients search - including via AI assistants. Checked with fixed queries: "best dentist Korea", "English speaking dentist Korea", "dental implants Korea", "emergency dentist Korea", "Korea dental clinic for expats".
| ✗ | Mentioned for: best dentist Korea [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: English speaking dentist Korea [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: dental implants Korea [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Korea [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Korea dental clinic for expats [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Structured data on website schema.org Dentist JSON-LD with alternate names in Hangul and Latin, telephone, PostalAddress, GeoCoordinates, areaServed and OpeningHoursSpecification. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The clinic's own domain ranks for Korean-language searches combining its core services with Seomyeon. [sq] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Separate pages per implant indication, per conservative and periodontal treatment, and per aesthetic procedure. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
Licensing & Credentials
Whether the clinic publishes its operating licence and the dentists working there together with their professional licence numbers. A verified “not published” is recorded as a red flag; data we have not checked yet is shown as unverified and carries no penalty.
Clinic operating licence: HIRA provider code 21512574 — Digital Art Dental Clinic, dental clinic, individually owned, opened 2016-05-24, registered with HIRA at Busan, Busanjin-gu, Bujeon-ro 79, Donga Building, floors 1,2,3 (Bujeon-dong). Business registration number 221-15-15064, representative Shin Jun-hyeok, published by the clinic itself. (Verified live on 2026-09-04 in the HIRA register's detailed-criteria institution search (region = Busan, type = dental clinic, institution name = 'Dijiteol Ateu', typed in Hangul): exactly one result, whose address and phone number match the clinic's own footer. Korea has no clinic operating-licence number separate from the HIRA provider code, and the register is queried live, so no snapshot date applies.) [reg1] [s2]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| 신준혁 (Shin Jun-hyeok, Revised Romanization) [s1] [s2] | Director and the clinic's registered representative; the clinic credits him with more than 27,000 procedures and with its full-arch implant work in medically compromised patients. The clinic publishes no specialist title against his name in readable text. | not verified |
| 임재성 (Im Jae-seong, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon, named on the clinic's own medical-staff page | not verified |
| 최양정 (Choi Yang-jeong, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Board-certified in conservative dentistry, named on the clinic's own medical-staff page; the clinic's English mirror renders the name as Dr. Yang-Jeong Choi | not verified |
| 김민해 (Kim Min-hae, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Board-certified in conservative dentistry, named on the clinic's own medical-staff page | not verified |
| 이해주 (Lee Hae-ju, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Board-certified periodontist, named on the clinic's own medical-staff page; the clinic's English mirror renders the name as Dr. Hae-Joo Lee | not verified |
| 박성호 (Park Seong-ho, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Board-certified in advanced general dentistry, named on the clinic's own medical-staff page; the clinic's English mirror renders the name as Dr. Sung-Ho Park | not verified |
| 신민정 (Shin Min-jeong, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Board-certified in conservative dentistry, named on the clinic's own medical-staff page | not verified |
Dentists are named; their licence numbers have not been checked against public sources yet — unverified, no penalty.
Red Flags
No red flags identified in the public sources we reviewed.
Data We Could Not Verify
- Reputation & Reviews: No recurring complaints
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
Unverified items score 0 points but are not treated as negative findings. If you can document any of them, please send a correction.
Contact Information
| Website | https://digitalartdc.co.kr/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +82 51-515-8267 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 1–3F, Donga Bldg, 79 Bujeon-ro, Busanjin-gu, Busan 47284, South Korea |
Contact details are provided for identification only and may change; verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | https://digitalartdc.co.kr/ | Clinic name in Hangul and Latin, service navigation, director Shin Jun-hyeok, language switcher (KR/EN/JP), premises tour, linked social channels, structured data, international patient cases | 2026-09-04 |
| s2 | https://digitalartdc.co.kr/doctors | Site footer with representative Shin Jun-hyeok, business registration number 221-15-15064, road-name address, phone and e-mail. The seven-dentist roster on this page is built on Imweb and bakes each dentist's name and specialist title into the portrait image, so it is unreadable automatically, as is the non-covered-treatment-fee modal. Opened in Chrome on 2026-09-10 and the captions read visually under a heading introducing the clinic's 7-member medical team: Shin Jun-hyeok, head director (advanced implants); Im Jae-seong, director (oral and maxillofacial surgery specialist); Choi Yang-jeong, director (conservative dentistry specialist); Kim Min-hae, director (conservative dentistry specialist); Lee Hae-ju, director (periodontics specialist); Park Seong-ho, director (integrated dentistry specialist); Shin Min-jeong, director (conservative dentistry specialist) — matching all seven names and specialisations on this card. | 2026-09-10 |
| s3 | https://digitalartdc.co.kr/timeline | Opening hours, lunch break, public-holiday closure, parking arrangements and directions | 2026-09-04 |
| reg1 | https://www.hira.or.kr/ra/dtlCndHospSrch/dtlCndHospSrch.do?pgmid=HI… | HIRA detailed-condition institution finder, searched region=Busan / category=dental clinic / institution name='Digital Art' — one result, Digital Art Dental Clinic, Busan, Busanjin-gu, Bujeon-ro 79, Donga Building, 1,2,3F (Bujeon-dong), 051-515-8267; institution detail gives institution code 21512574, opening date 2016-05-24, ownership type: individual | 2026-09-04 |
| reg2 | https://www.hira.or.kr/ra/dtlCndHospSrch/dtlCndHospSrch.do?pgmid=HI… | Same HIRA register, filtered on equipment condition cone-beam CT (oftFmtNomCd=12) for Busan / dental clinic — Digital Art Dental Clinic is returned, confirming a cone-beam CT is registered at the institution | 2026-09-04 |
| sq | search:best dentist Busan / English speaking dentist Busan / dental implants Busan / emergency dentist Busan / Busan dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-04, run as the five canonical city queries — the clinic appeared in none of the five English-language queries, only in Korean-language searches | 2026-09-04 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Digital+Art+Dental+Clinic/data=!3… | Live Google Maps place page read in a browser: rating, review count, star histogram, review dates, owner replies, listing website, phone, address and pin coordinates | 2026-09-06 |
| digital-art-dental-busan-gbp-2026-09-26 | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=8748165968580787722&hl=en | Google listing read on 2026-09-26: rating 4.5 from 24 reviews; star histogram 1★ 3 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 0 / 5★ 21; newest review dated 2026-09-06. | 2026-09-26 |
| digital-art-dental-busan-presence | https://m.place.naver.com/hospital/37933246/home | Naver Place page of Digital Art Dental Clinic, Seomyeon (category: dentist), 1-3F, Donga Bldg, 79 Bujeon-ro, Busanjin-gu, Busan — the card's address: 913 visitor reviews; phone 051-515-8267, the card's phone (read 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| digital-art-dental-busan-presence-2 | https://www.facebook.com/digitalartdc | Facebook page "Digital Art Dental Clinic", read 2026-10-02: 137 followers, newest post 24 September 2026; the page links the clinic's website digitalartdc.co.kr and shares its Instagram name | 2026-10-02 |
| digital-art-dental-busan-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Digital Art Dental Clinic Busan" (12 attractions), none of them a dental practice in or near Busan; 12 suggestions for "Digital Art" (11 attractions, 1 hotel), none of them a dental practice in or near Busan; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| digital-art-dental-busan-tripadvisor-2 | https://digitalartdc.co.kr/ | Clinic's website, home page read 2026-10-05: no link to a TripAdvisor page | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence re-checked: presence on other review platforms — yes; Facebook presence — yes. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: no recurring complaints now unverified: 1–2★ ratings are 3 of 23 and the low reviews themselves were not read; active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established; review recency within 3 months (newest review dated 2026-09-06). |
| 2026-09-10 | Name-verification manual browser check 2026-09-10 (group 2 of the name lot): the clinic's own medical-team page is built on Imweb and bakes every dentist's name and specialist title into the portrait image, so no crawler could read them and six of the seven dentists carried no source at all. The page was opened in Chrome and the seven captions were read visually. All six unsourced names and their specialisations match the card exactly, so each now cites the roster page; no licence value was touched, since Korea publishes no dentist licence numbers. |
| 2026-09-06 | Checked by hand in a browser: Google Maps place page read live; the clinic's own roster page rendered in a browser, recovering six dentist names and seven specialties that the served HTML does not contain; the footer non-covered treatment fees link shown to be an inert javascript:void(0) anchor with no fee table behind it. |
| 2026-09-04 | Initial data collection for the Korea Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via digitalartdc.co.kr (homepage, the medical-team footer and opening hours) and against the HIRA national institution register (provider code 21512574). The clinic's fee schedule and its full dentist roster are published but only behind JavaScript, so price transparency and per-dentist specialisations are recorded as unverified and queued for a manual browser check. No public per-dentist licence search exists in South Korea, so the director's licence number is recorded as unverified rather than as a negative finding. |
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