라이브치과병원 인천점 (Live Dental Hospital, Incheon)
According to our open methodology, this clinic scored 76.7/100 for transparency, reputation, service accessibility, and digital visibility.
Overall rank: #6 of 26 ranked clinics · Last checked: 6 September 2026
Positions by Rating Profile
- Overall Transparency & Trust#676.7/100
- Best for Expatsnot ranked
- Best for Dental Implants#574.3/100
- Best for Emergency Dental Carenot ranked
- Best Price Transparency#381/100
- 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
Hospital-grade dental practice (chigwa-byeongwon) three minutes from Bupyeong Station, occupying two floors of a building the group owns, with an in-house laboratory and a ten-year implant maintenance programme. The group runs a second site in Seoul's Gangnam and publishes which of its dentists work at which branch. Registered with HIRA as Raibeu Chigwa-byeongwon, provider code 31401112, opened 2018-04-06.
The Latin form Live Dental Hospital comes from the group's own branding (LIVE DENTAL CARE, and the branch label "Incheon", printed beside the Hangul for 'Incheon branch', on its own site); the dentists are named only in Hangul, so the Latin forms alongside them here are Revised Romanization and are labelled as such. The team page is a chain roster but it splits the dentists explicitly into Gangnam branch and Incheon branch blocks, so only the eleven listed under the Incheon branch are recorded here. The site header offers a Korean/English switch to /en, but that path served the Korean page to an automated fetch; the English version is queued for browser confirmation. Coordinates come from the HIRA register, not from a Google Maps place page.
Strengths
- Information Transparency: 18 of 20 points.
- Price Transparency: 13 of 15 points.
- Reputation & Reviews: 18.5 of 20 points.
- No red flags identified in public sources.
Weaknesses
No category fell below the weakness threshold (50% of verifiable points).
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 [s1] | 4/4 |
| ✓ | Dentist names listed Eleven dentists are named under the Incheon branch heading on the group's own team page, each with a department and a qualification. [s2] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Dentist specializations listed Each named dentist carries a stated specialty: oral & maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, prosthodontics, oral medicine or advanced general dentistry. [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Real clinic photos A premises tour section with photographs of the group's own building and treatment areas. [s1] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Service list published Full-arch implants, implants in medically compromised patients, insurance implants, orthodontics and Invisalign, aesthetic work (laminates and whitening), caries treatment, wisdom tooth extraction and TMJ treatment at the Incheon branch. [s1] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Clear contact details Branch phone 032-502-2279, group number 1599-2275, fax, address and business registration number 122-35-81362 published per branch; the branch phone and address match the HIRA register. [s2] [s3] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | English website version Confirmed in a rendering browser on 2026-09-06, which is what the open questions asked for. The header's Korean/English switch points at /en, and /en opens the Korean site: the page title is the hospital's Hangul name (Raibeu Chigwa-byeongwon), the whole navigation is Korean, and of 11,178 characters of body text only 71 Latin-alphabet words appear. There is no English version behind the switch. [w4] [s1] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | Address and map published Branch address plus subway, bus and parking directions, and links to Naver and Kakao map entries. [s3] | 2/2 |
Price Transparency
Whether patients can estimate costs before visiting. Published price ranges count; exact prices are not required.
| ✓ | Prices or price ranges published A full non-covered treatment fee schedule is published, listing each item with its Korean insurance procedure code and a fixed price or range across prosthetics, restorative work, implants, orthodontics, whitening and imaging. [s4] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Cleaning price listed Non-covered scaling KRW 70,000. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Filling price listed Light-cured composite resin KRW 120,000 per surface (posterior) to KRW 170,000 (anterior), and KRW 300,000 for aesthetic anterior work such as diastema closure. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Crown price listed Zirconia crown KRW 700,000; gold crown KRW 900,000; temporary crown KRW 200,000. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implant price listed Per tooth: Dio KRW 380,000, Osstem KRW 600,000, Dentium KRW 700,000, Straumann KRW 2,000,000; All-on-X KRW 10,000,000 per arch; bone graft KRW 100,000–300,000. [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Consultation price listed The schedule was read in full; it prices an implant treatment work-up at KRW 200,000 but publishes no general consultation or first-visit fee. [s4] | 0/2 |
| ✓ | X-ray / imaging price listed CT scan KRW 100,000. [s4] | 2/2 |
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: 583 five-star, 4 four-star, 1 three-star, 0 two-star, 7 one-star. The buckets sum to 595, matching the 595 in the place-page header exactly, and the weighted mean 4.943 reproduces the published 4.9. [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] | 3/3 |
| ✓ | Review recency The newest review visible is 1 month 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 One of the three reviews Google renders carries an owner reply. 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 One critical review in the visible sample, a month old: a Local Guide with 593 reviews says booking by email failed and that Korean-only apps are needed to make an appointment - an access complaint rather than a clinical one. Seven one-star ratings in 595 (1.2 per cent) is not a repeated theme. 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 Histogram shape, spread of wording and dates, and reviewer-account variety show no sign of manipulation. 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 Not established: the clinic's website (26 pages read 2026-10-02) links no Facebook page and none was found under its website or Instagram name; Facebook itself could not be searched that day. | 0/1 |
| ✗ | TripAdvisor presence No TripAdvisor listing found via its search for "Live Dental Hospital, Incheon" and "Live Dental"; the clinic's site does not link to TripAdvisor (checked 2026-10-05). [live-dental-hospital-incheon-tripadvisor] [live-dental-hospital-incheon-tripadvisor-2] | 0/0.5 |
| ✓ | Other review platforms Listed on Naver Place, South Korea's main local review platform, with 3,336 visitor reviews. [live-dental-hospital-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, and the hospital prices a CT scan on its own fee schedule. [reg2] [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | CBCT (3D imaging) Returned by the HIRA institution search filtered on equipment code 12 (cone-beam CT) for Incheon / dental hospital. [reg2] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Implantology [s1] [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Orthodontics Fixed appliances, Angel Aligner and Invisalign, priced on the fee schedule, under a board-certified orthodontist at the branch. [s1] [s4] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Oral surgery Wisdom tooth extraction and implant surgery, with two board-certified oral & maxillofacial surgeons at the Incheon branch. [s1] [s2] | 2/2 |
| ✗ | Pediatric dentistry The service navigation lists implants, orthodontics, aesthetic work, caries treatment, wisdom teeth and TMJ; no children's dentistry department is listed, although a paediatric band-and-loop space maintainer appears on the fee schedule. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Emergency care No emergency or walk-in route is documented, although the hospital works evenings on Tuesdays and Thursdays and opens on Saturdays and Sundays. [s3] | 0/1.5 |
| ✗ | Works with international patients No foreign-patient service, language support or international paperwork is documented; the advertised English version of the site did not serve English content. [s1] | 0/2 |
Communication & Service
How easy it is to contact the clinic, get answers, and book - especially for international patients.
| ✗ | WhatsApp / LINE available KakaoTalk and Naver booking only. [s1] | 0/2 |
| ? | Response speed | 0/1.5 |
| ? | English spoken | 0/2.5 |
| ✓ | Pre-visit consultation possible An online booking and quick-consultation form asking for the treatment of interest, plus KakaoTalk and Naver channels. [s1] | 1.5/1.5 |
| ✓ | Clear service explanations The hospital sets out its treatment philosophy and describes each implant and orthodontic route in plain language, including a ten-year maintenance programme. [s1] | 1/1 |
| ✓ | Convenient opening hours Weekdays 09:30–18:30, Tuesdays and Thursdays to 20:30, Saturdays and Sundays 09:30–14:00 with no lunch break; some public holidays closed. [s3] | 1.5/1.5 |
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] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | 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. Checked and absent: the clinic appears in none of the results, so the narrowed query was not what suppressed it. [sqes] | 0/1 |
| ✓ | Mentioned for: dental implants Korea [sq] | 1/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: emergency dentist Korea [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Mentioned for: Korea dental clinic for expats [sq] | 0/1 |
| ✗ | Structured data on website The site carries Open Graph tags but no schema.org JSON-LD of any type. [s1] | 0/1.5 |
| ✓ | Google indexing quality The hospital's own domain ranks for Korean-language searches combining its core services with Bupyeong, and it surfaced in English the five canonical city queries about Incheon. [sq] | 2/2 |
| ✓ | Dedicated service pages Separate pages per implant route, per orthodontic route and per general treatment, plus patient-rights, fee-schedule and certificate-fee information pages. [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 31401112 — Live Dental Hospital, dental hospital, individually owned, opened 2018-04-06, registered with HIRA at Incheon, Bupyeong-gu, Bupyeong-daero 52, Live Building, 2nd-3rd floor (Bupyeong-dong). Business registration number 122-35-81362 and hospital director Song Eun-gyeong published by the hospital itself for the Incheon branch. (Verified live on 2026-09-04 in the HIRA register's detailed-criteria institution search (region = Incheon, type = dental hospital, institution name = 'Raibeu', typed in Hangul): exactly one result, whose address and phone match the Incheon branch block in the group's own footer. The group's Gangnam site is a separate institution with its own business registration number (120-12-10090) and director, and is not covered by this record. 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. |
|---|---|---|
| 송은경 (Song Eun-gyeong, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Chief director / hospital director of the Incheon branch; specialist in Advanced General Dentistry; prosthodontic treatment | not verified |
| 배상필 (Bae Sang-pil, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Board-certified oral & maxillofacial surgeon; implants and wisdom tooth extraction | not verified |
| 양대승 (Yang Dae-seung, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Board-certified oral & maxillofacial surgeon; implants and wisdom tooth extraction | not verified |
| 송희태 (Song Hui-tae, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Board-certified orthodontist; orthodontic treatment | not verified |
| 홍정표 (Hong Jeong-pyo, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Board-certified specialist in oral medicine; oral disease and temporomandibular joint treatment | not verified |
| 이영훈 (Lee Yeong-hun, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Board-certified prosthodontist; prosthodontic treatment | not verified |
| 박선아 (Park Seon-a, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Board-certified prosthodontist; prosthodontic treatment | not verified |
| 이시원 (Lee Si-won, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Specialist in Advanced General Dentistry; conservative dentistry | not verified |
| 김미나 (Kim Mi-na, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Specialist in Advanced General Dentistry; prosthodontic treatment | not verified |
| 박정혜 (Park Jeong-hye, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Dentist; first examination, screening and implant assessment. The group lists her at both its Incheon and Gangnam sites. | not verified |
| 이경 (Lee Gyeong, Revised Romanization) [s2] | Dentist; first examination, screening and implant assessment | 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: Active Facebook presence
- 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://liveliveh.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +82 32-502-2279 |
| Google Maps | Map listing |
| Address | 2–3F, Live Bldg, 52 Bupyeong-daero, Bupyeong-gu, Incheon 21393, 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://liveliveh.com/ | Hospital name and branding, service navigation, hospital-grade status, in-house laboratory and ten-year maintenance programme, booking channels, language switch, structured-data check | 2026-09-04 |
| s2 | https://liveliveh.com/special/team | Team roster split explicitly into Gangnam-branch and Incheon-branch blocks, naming eleven dentists at the Incheon branch with their departments and specialist qualifications, plus the per-branch footer with hospital director Song Eun-gyeong, address, phone, fax and business registration number 122-35-81362 | 2026-09-04 |
| s3 | https://liveliveh.com/special/location-hours | Opening hours including Tuesday and Thursday evening clinics and Saturday and Sunday sessions, Incheon branch address, subway, bus and parking directions, branch phone number | 2026-09-04 |
| s4 | https://liveliveh.com/info/noncovered | Full non-covered-treatment-charge schedule with insurance procedure codes: crowns, inlays and onlays, composite resin, implants by system and by arch, bone grafting and sinus lift, orthodontics and aligners, retainers, whitening, CT scan and implant work-up fees | 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 hospital / institution name='Live' — one result, Live Dental Hospital, Incheon, Bupyeong-gu, Bupyeong-daero 52, Live Building, 2nd-3rd floor (Bupyeong-dong), 032-502-2279; institution detail gives institution code 31401112, opening date 2018-04-06, 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 hospital — Live Dental Hospital 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/%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4%EB%B8%8C%EC%B9… | 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 |
| w4 | https://liveliveh.com/en | The English path of the hospital's own site, opened in a browser: it serves the Korean page | 2026-09-06 |
| live-dental-hospital-incheon-presence | https://m.place.naver.com/hospital/35497766/home | Naver Place page of Live Dental Hospital, Incheon Bupyeong (category: dentist), 2-3F, Live Bldg, 52 Bupyeong-daero, Bupyeong-gu, Incheon — the card's address: 3,336 visitor reviews; phone 032-502-2279, the card's phone (read 2026-10-02) | 2026-10-02 |
| live-dental-hospital-incheon-tripadvisor | https://www.tripadvisor.com/TypeAheadJson?action=API&details=true&q… | TripAdvisor's own search, read 2026-10-05: 12 suggestions for "Live Dental Hospital, Incheon" (1 place, 4 attractions, 6 hotels, 1 restaurant), none of them a dental practice in or near Incheon; 12 suggestions for "Live Dental" (2 places, 4 attractions, 6 hotels), none of them a dental practice in or near Incheon; no listing for this clinic | 2026-10-05 |
| live-dental-hospital-incheon-tripadvisor-2 | https://liveliveh.com/ | 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. |
| 2026-09-29 | Corrected 2026-09-29: active Facebook presence now unverified: no Facebook search is on record, so the absence of a page is not established. |
| 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: Google Maps place page read live; the /en path opened in a real browser and shown to serve the Korean page, closing the record's English-version question with a negative. |
| 2026-09-04 | Initial data collection for the Korea Dental Transparency & Trust Index: verified via liveliveh.com (homepage, the Live medical-team page, the opening hours and directions page and the published non-covered treatment fee schedule) and against the HIRA national institution register (provider code 31401112). Only the eleven dentists the group lists under its Incheon branch heading are recorded; the Gangnam site is a separate institution. No public per-dentist licence search exists in South Korea, so their licence numbers are recorded as unverified rather than as a negative finding. Google Maps reputation fields and the map pin were not obtainable automatically and are queued for a manual browser check. |
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