엘리샤인터내셔널치과의원 (Elisha International Dental Clinic)
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 42.8/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #22 of 26 ranked clinics · Last checked: 7 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#2242.8/100
- Best for Expats#1937.8/100
- Best for Dental Implantsnot ranked
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#2329.1/100
- 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
Long-running Songdo clinic that carries "International" in its registered Korean name and publishes a parallel English version of its site, near Incheon National University Station. It advertises appointments and consultations through a KakaoTalk channel and organises its treatment into aesthetic, general dental and prosthetic sections. Registered with HIRA as Ellisya Inteonaesyeoneol Chigwa-uiwon, provider code 31571263, opened 2015-03-31.
This record is deliberately sparse. The clinic's site is live on plain HTTP but its interior navigation (About the clinic, aesthetic clinic, dental clinic, prosthetic clinic) is built entirely from images and an image map, so nothing beyond the section headings, the KakaoTalk announcement and the language toggle could be read without a browser; the HTTPS host presents a self-signed certificate. Rather than record absent facts as negatives, the readable-only fields were left unverified and every unreadable page is. The newest dated notice on the site is from 2015, so the site is stale even though the institution is currently registered and active. The Latin form Elisha International Dental is the clinic's own, taken from its English page. Coordinates come from the HIRA register, not from a Google Maps place page.
Strengths
- Reputation & Reviews: 16.5 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
- Price Transparency: 0 of 3 verifiable points (missing: prices or price ranges published)
- Communication & Service: 1.5 of 3.5 verifiable points (missing: whatsApp / LINE available)
- AI & Search Visibility: 2.5 of 10 verifiable points (missing: mentioned for: best dentist Korea; mentioned for: dental implants Korea; mentioned for: emergency dentist Korea; mentioned for: Korea dental clinic for expats; structured data on website; google indexing quality)
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
Whether basic facts about the clinic - its team, premises, services, and location - are publicly verifiable.
| ✓ | Has a working website The site loads over plain HTTP and is the clinic's own, with Korean and English versions and a mobile site; the HTTPS host presents a self-signed certificate, and the newest dated notice on the site is from 2015. [s1] [s2] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed The clinic names one dentist, and names her fully: Dr. Sun Kim (KIM SUN-YOUNG), DDS, with her qualifications printed on the same image — Columbia University School of Oral Surgery and Dentistry (DDS), UC Berkeley (BS Chemistry), a General Practice Residency at Hackensack University Medical Center, North-East Regional Board certification across 18 US states, a State of California dental licence and Invisalign certification — plus a second image with a full biography and a third showing fourteen framed certificates. The content is published only as JPEGs, so it is invisible to text extraction; the images were downloaded and read on 2026-09-07. No second dentist is named anywhere on the site. [y1a] | 3/3 |
| ? | Dentist specializations listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Real clinic photos | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published The English services page publishes four named treatment categories as an image — Cosmetic Dentistry, General Dentistry, Orthodontics and Prosthodontics — under "Appointments & Consultations", together with a six-item "Elisha Smart Service" strip covering toothache, children's dentistry, aesthetic treatment, professional cleaning and patient-centred care. Categories only; no individual treatments are itemised. Read from the images 2026-09-07. [y1b] | 3/3 |
| ? | Clear contact details No phone number or address appears in readable text on the clinic's own pages; the number recorded here comes from the HIRA register and is corroborated by a third-party guide. | 0/2 |
| ✓ | English website version A parallel English version of the site is published at /eng/, reachable from the landing page and linked back to the Korean version. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Address and map published | 0/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✗ | Prices or price ranges published No price appears anywhere on the site, and the site has no fee page to carry one. Both navigations were enumerated on 2026-09-07 — the Korean image-map home page (About the clinic, aesthetic clinic, dental clinic, prosthetic clinic, plus notice/consultation/booking boards) and the English section (medical_01–04, clinic1_01–04, clinic2_01–05, clinic3_01–02, notice, counsel, before-and-after) — and neither contains a non-covered-fee or other fee section. [y1b] [y1c] | 0/3 |
| ? | Cleaning price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Filling price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Crown price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Implant price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | Consultation price listed | 0/2 |
| ? | X-ray / imaging price listed | 0/2 |
Reputation & Reviews
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: 188 five-star, 2 four-star, 0 three-star, 0 two-star, 1 one-star. The buckets sum to 191, matching the 191 in the place-page header exactly, and the weighted mean 4.969 reproduces the published 5. [gmp1] | 6/6 |
| ◐ | Google review volume Read live on 2026-09-06 from the place-page header; the star histogram sums to the same figure. [gmp1] | 2/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is 3 months old, which proves the within-3-months bucket and no better. 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] | 3/3 |
| ✗ | Clinic responds to reviews None of the 16 reviews read, 11 of them dated within the last 24 months (newest 2026-09-29), carries an owner reply, and the reply block of the listing was readable. [elisha-international-dental-incheon-deepen] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | No recurring complaints None of the three reviews Google renders is critical; the histogram carries one one-star rating in 191. 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 suspicious review patterns 5.0 from 191 with two four-star and one one-star rating present. The three visible reviews are long, specific and mutually unlike (crowns compared with a US dentist, a decade-long patient of Dr Kim, veneers), which is not the shape manipulation produces. 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, linked from the clinic's website: newest post 11 August 2026. [elisha-international-dental-incheon-presence-2] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Elisha International Dental Clinic Incheon" and "Elisha Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [elisha-international-dental-incheon-tripadvisor] [elisha-international-dental-incheon-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Listed on Naver Place, South Korea's main local review platform, with 301 visitor reviews. [elisha-international-dental-incheon-presence] | 0.5/0.5 |
Medical Infrastructure
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 Incheon / dental clinic. [reg2] | 2/2 |
| ? | Implantology | 0/2 |
| ? | Orthodontics | 0/2 |
| ? | Oral surgery | 0/2 |
| ? | Pediatric dentistry | 0/1.5 |
| ? | Emergency care | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Works with international patients The clinic carries "International" (in Hangul, Inteonaesyeoneol) in its registered institution name and publishes a parallel English version of its own site. [s2] [reg1] | 2/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available The clinic announces appointments and consultations through a KakaoTalk channel; no WhatsApp or LINE contact is published. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken The clinic publishes an English version of its site, but no statement about English-language consultation could be read from its own pages automatically. | 0/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible The clinic's own notice states that appointments and consultations can now be taken through its KakaoTalk channel. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ? | Clear service explanations | 0/1 |
| ? | Convenient opening hours | 0/1.5 |
AI & Search Visibility
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 Canonical query "English speaking dentist Incheon" re-run 2026-09-06 (method: web search 2026-09-06) after the initial data collection had used a form narrowed to the Songdo district. Still surfaced, and still through an expatriate guide rather than the clinic's own site: the South of Seoul blog's list of English-speaking dentists in Songdo. [sqes] [s3] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | 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 No schema.org JSON-LD and no Open Graph tags anywhere on the site. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Google indexing quality own domain elishadental.com appears only once, last among 10 results (a deep clinic-info subpage), behind Facebook, a local expat blog, a directory and unrelated Wikipedia entries (web search 2026-09-07) [giq1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages The main page links separate pages for the aesthetic, dental and prosthetic clinics, each with sub-pages (/clinic1/, /clinic2/, /clinic3/). [elisha-international-dental-incheon-site] | 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 31571263 — Elisha International Dental Clinic, dental clinic, individually owned, opened 2015-03-31, registered with HIRA at Incheon, Yeonsu-gu, Incheontower-daero 132beon-gil 34, Unit 502 (Songdo-dong). (Verified live on 2026-09-04 in the HIRA register's detailed-criteria institution search (region = Incheon, type = dental clinic, institution name = 'Ellisya', typed in Hangul): exactly one result, whose address and phone number match those a third-party expatriate guide publishes for the clinic. The clinic publishes no business registration number in readable text. 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]
Dentists & professional licences
| Dentist | Specialization | Licence No. |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Sun Kim [s3] | Named by a third-party expatriate guide as the clinic's dentist, with a DDS from Columbia University and practice experience in the United States and South Korea. This attribution is not from the clinic's own channel and is pending confirmation against the clinic's own About the Clinic page in the manual browser check. | 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
- Information Transparency: Dentist specializations listed
- Information Transparency: Real clinic photos
- Information Transparency: Clear contact details
- Information Transparency: Address and map published
- Price Transparency: Cleaning price listed
- Price Transparency: Filling price listed
- Price Transparency: Crown price listed
- Price Transparency: Implant price listed
- Price Transparency: Consultation price listed
- Price Transparency: X-ray / imaging price listed
- Medical Infrastructure: Implantology
- Medical Infrastructure: Orthodontics
- Medical Infrastructure: Oral surgery
- Medical Infrastructure: Pediatric dentistry
- Medical Infrastructure: Emergency care
- Communication & Service: Response speed
- Communication & Service: English spoken
- Communication & Service: Clear service explanations
- Communication & Service: Convenient opening hours
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 | http://www.elishadental.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +82 32-831-0027 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | Unit 502, 34 Incheontower-daero 132beon-gil, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 21998, 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 | http://www.elishadental.com/main.htm | The clinic's own Korean site: institution name, treatment sections (About the Clinic, Aesthetic Clinic, Dental Clinic, Prosthodontic Clinic), KakaoTalk appointment and consultation announcement, notice board, and the image-based navigation that prevented deeper reading; also the absence of structured data | 2026-09-04 |
| s2 | http://www.elishadental.com/eng/ | The clinic's own English version, publishing the Latin name Elisha International Dental and the same treatment sections with a link back to the Korean version | 2026-09-04 |
| s3 | https://blog.southofseoul.net/english-speaking-dentist-in-songdo/ | Third-party expatriate guide listing the clinic as an English-speaking dentist in Songdo, with the Hangul name romanizing as Elisha International Dental Clinic, phone 032-831-0027, address Incheon, Yeonsu-gu, Incheontower-daero 132beon-gil 34, website elishadental.com and the dentist's name; used only as corroboration of existence, contact details and search visibility, never as publication by the clinic | 2026-09-04 |
| reg1 | https://www.hira.or.kr/ra/dtlCndHospSrch/dtlCndHospSrch.do?pgmid=HI… | HIRA detailed-condition institution finder, searched region=Incheon / category=dental clinic / institution name='Elisha' — one result, Elisha International Dental Clinic, Incheon, Yeonsu-gu, Incheontower-daero 132beon-gil 34, Unit 502 (Songdo-dong), 032-831-0027; institution detail gives institution code 31571263, opening date 2015-03-31, 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 Incheon / dental clinic — Elisha International Dental Clinic is returned, confirming a cone-beam CT is registered at the institution | 2026-09-04 |
| sq | search:best dentist Incheon / English speaking dentist Incheon / dental implants Incheon / emergency dentist Incheon / Incheon dental clinic for expats | AI/search visibility scout 2026-09-04, run as the five canonical city queries | 2026-09-04 |
| sqes | search:English speaking dentist Incheon | Canonical city visibility query, re-run 2026-09-06 with web search (method: web search 2026-09-06). The initial data collection had run the narrowed form with the district name appended, so this row replaces it for aiMention_englishSpeaking only. | 2026-09-06 |
| gmp1 | https://www.google.com/maps/place/Elisha+International+Dental+Clini… | 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 |
| y1a | http://www.elishadental.com/eng/medical/medical_01.htm | The clinic's English 'our doctor' pages, whose entire content is three JPEGs: the dentist's name, qualifications, biography and a wall of certificates | 2026-09-07 |
| y1b | http://www.elishadental.com/eng/medical/medical_02.htm | The clinic's English services page, again three JPEGs: the treatment categories offered, the weekly opening hours and an English-speaking-staff statement | 2026-09-07 |
| y1c | http://www.elishadental.com/main.htm | The Korean image-map home page and its full navigation, enumerated to establish which sections the site has | 2026-09-07 |
| giq1 | search:엘리샤인터내셔널치과의원 인천 Elisha International Dental Clinic Incheon | own domain elishadental.com appears only once, last among 10 results (a deep clinic-info subpage), behind Facebook, a local expat blog, a directory and unrelated Wikipedia entries | 2026-09-07 |
| elisha-international-dental-incheon-presence | https://m.place.naver.com/hospital/36560909/home | Naver Place page of Elisha International Dental Clinic (category: dentist), Unit 502, 34 Incheontower-daero 132beon-gil, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon — the card's address: 301 visitor reviews; phone 0507-1429-0028, a Naver forwarding number (read 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| elisha-international-dental-incheon-presence-2 | https://www.facebook.com/elishadental | Facebook page "Elisha International Dental Clinic, Incheon", read 2026-10-02: 320 followers, newest post 11 August 2026; linked from the clinic's website | 2026-10-02 |
| elisha-international-dental-incheon-site | http://www.elishadental.com/main.htm | Main page read 2026-10-02: the menu links separate pages for the aesthetic clinic (/clinic1/clinic1_01.htm to 04), the dental clinic (/clinic2/clinic2_01.htm to 05) and the prosthetic clinic (/clinic3/clinic3_01.htm to 02) | 2026-10-02 |
| elisha-international-dental-incheon-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Elisha International Dental Clinic Incheon" (1 place, 4 attractions, 6 hotels, 1 restaurant), none of them a dental practice in or near Incheon; 12 suggestions for "Elisha Dental" (5 attractions, 7 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Incheon; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| elisha-international-dental-incheon-tripadvisor-2 | http://www.elishadental.com/ | Clinic's website, home page read 2026-10-05: no link to a TripAdvisor page | 2026-10-05 |
| elisha-international-dental-incheon-deepen | https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16149885147624484422&hl=en | Google listing "Elisha International Dental Clinic" (Dental clinic), read 2026-10-02 and 2026-10-05 in 5 review orders (highest, lowest, newest, relevant, relevant-hl): rated 4.9 from 191 reviews (1★ 2 / 2★ 0 / 3★ 0 / 4★ 2 / 5★ 187); 16 distinct reviews read, dated 2017-09-09 to 2026-09-29, 0 with an owner reply | 2026-10-05 |
Change History
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Read more of the clinic's Google reviews on 2026-10-05 (16 distinct reviews in total): no owner replies found. |
| 2026-10-05 | TripAdvisor presence checked on 2026-10-05: no listing found for this clinic. |
| 2026-10-02 | Website structure read on 2026-10-02: separate treatment pages found. |
| 2026-10-02 | Presence re-checked: presence on other review platforms — yes; Facebook presence — yes. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: clinic responds to reviews now unverified: only 3 reviews were checked for owner replies. |
| 2026-09-07 | Close-out, 2026-09-07: elishadental.com serves an untrusted TLS certificate, so a browser cannot reach it without clicking through a security warning — which is not done. The site was read over plain HTTP with an ordinary client instead, and the three JPEG-only pages behind the four open rows were downloaded and read as images. |
| 2026-09-06 | Data gate: the canonical city query "English speaking dentist Incheon" was re-run with web search because the initial data collection had run a form narrowed to the Songdo district. aiMention_englishSpeaking was re-evaluated against the canonical run and now cites it. |
| 2026-09-06 | Checked by hand in a browser: the Google Maps place page was opened in a real browser and read for rating, review count, star histogram, review recency, owner replies, complaint and manipulation reading, listing website, phone, address and pin coordinates; the checks that needed a rendering browser were worked through on the clinic's own channels. |
| 2026-09-04 | Initial data collection for the Korea Dental Transparency & Trust Index: the institution was verified in the HIRA national institution register (provider code 31571263) and its site confirmed live, but the site's interior pages are image-based and could not be read without a browser, so most card fields are recorded as unverified and queued for a manual browser check rather than being scored as negatives. No public per-dentist licence search exists in South Korea, so the dentist's licence number is recorded as unverified rather than as a negative finding. |
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