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Dr. Kim Dae-woo

Founder & Medical Director · Board-certified dermatologist

Dr. Kim Dae-woo, Medical Director of MONARA Dermatology Clinic
Medically reviewed by Dr. Kim Dae-woo, Medical Director, MONARA Dermatology Clinic
In his words

“Most people have this operation once, perhaps twice, in a lifetime. That is why I explain it at length, why I stay with the case from the consultation through to the last graft, and why I would rather place fewer follicles well than more of them badly.”

A hair transplant is not one operation but a year. What is placed on the day matters; so does what happens at one month when it sheds, at four months when it returns, and at eight months when the result becomes readable.

I stay with the case for that whole year, and beyond it. The intention is not to be the surgeon you saw once, but the physician who looks after your hair.

Delicacy is not a marketing word here. A single follicle placed at the wrong angle is visible for a decade, which is why the work is slow and why only one operation is booked in a day.

“A person can have perhaps two of these operations in a lifetime. That is how I treat every graft.”

Qualification

  • Board-certified in dermatology — Korean medical specialty board
  • Seventeen years in clinical practice

Areas of practice

  • Non-shaven follicular unit extraction (FUE)
  • Mega-session and body-hair transplantation
  • Scalp micropigmentation

Appointments and memberships

  • Korean Society of Hair Restoration Surgery — Standing Executive Secretary (current)
  • Korean Society of Hair Restoration Surgery — former Standing Director of Academic Affairs
  • Korean Dermatological Association — full member
  • Korean Academy of Dermatology Practitioners — full member
  • Korean Society for Clinical Dermatologic Therapy — full member
  • Korean Hair Research Society — full member
  • Hidoc · Naver Knowledge-iN — appointed medical adviser, health and medical consultation
  • Mogun Dermatology Clinic — former Director
  • MONARA Dermatology Clinic — Medical Director (current)

Academic activity

Presentations and contributions to the Korean Society of Hair Restoration Surgery, where he serves as Standing Executive Secretary.

  • Presented at the annual congress of the Korean Society of Hair Restoration Surgery
  • Contributed to the Society's forum and case conference programmes
  • Presented at the Society's online symposium

Broadcast appearances

MBN Special Documentary H · KBS 2TV Live Information · JTBC Good Morning Life · TV Chosun

Language

Korean. English enquiries are handled in writing before the visit and interpretation is arranged for the consultation.

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Every plan begins with a one-to-one consultation. Tell us what you want to change and we will tell you honestly what is worth doing — and what is not.

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