What to bring to a urology visit in Korea.
Most of what makes a first visit efficient fits in a phone. This is the checklist our Busan Seomyeon clinic sends international patients before they travel: the documents that must be physical, the results that save a repeat test, the medication facts that change what can be done on the day, and the photographs that let the urologist reply with a plan rather than a question.
International Patients Guide
Routes from the airport, hotels near Seomyeon and how a one-visit urology trip to Busan is planned — the page this checklist belongs to.
Read the visit guide →- The three things that must be physical
- Prior results: what saves a repeat test
- Medication facts that change the day
- Photographs: which concerns they help
- The history worth writing down
- What you can skip
- Extra items if a procedure is planned
- What to send before you travel
- How it runs here — and your next step
- Do I need my medical records translated into Korean?
- Will old blood results from home save me money?
- I take blood thinners — should I stop them before I come?
- Are photographs really necessary?
- What if I forget something?
Each is answered below, from what actually helps at the clinic rather than a generic list.
What must be physical for a urology visit in Busan?
Three items: your passport (or Korean residence card), the payment card you intend to use, and any implanted-device card or surgical letter if you have had prior surgery in the same area. Everything else — results, medication lists, photographs — can be on your phone and sent to Urogyn Men's Clinic in Busan Seomyeon before you travel, which is where it does the most good. No Korean translation is needed for anything; the urologist reads English.
Identity for the clinical record. A photograph of it is not sufficient at the desk.
Fees are settled in Korean won at the published figures. Bring the card you will actually use.
Prior implant, prior scrotal or penile surgery, prior circumcision. Changes what can be done on the day.
Prior results: what saves a repeat test?
A result from home is useful if it is recent and if it answers the question the urologist would otherwise test for. The ones that most often save a repeat at our Busan clinic:
- PSA within the last six months, with the date and the laboratory's reference range — saves the ₩150,000 PSA test and gives a trend if you bring an earlier value too. Essential for a prostate visit.
- Prostate ultrasound or MRI report with volume in millilitres — the number that drives a BPH decision, and can let the urologist give a written procedure estimate before you fly.
- Testosterone and hormone results with the time of day drawn — morning draws are the ones that count, and a recent one can save the ₩150,000 hormone test or make the second confirmatory draw the only one needed.
- Semen analysis from any laboratory — for fertility screening or post-vasectomy confirmation.
- STD results with dates — mainly to establish what has already been excluded and when, so the urologist can advise on window periods rather than re-test blindly.
- Vascular or Doppler ultrasound of the penis, if you have had one — rare, but decisive for an ED visit.
Medication facts that change the day
- 1 Blood thinners and antiplatelets. Warfarin, DOACs, aspirin, clopidogrel. These change whether a procedure can be done on the visit. Do not stop them on your own — tell the clinic in your message and the urologist advises, with your prescribing doctor's input if needed.
- 2 Nitrates and heart medication. Contraindicate ED tablets. The urologist needs the names before prescribing anything.
- 3 Diabetes and its control. Affects healing, infection risk and implant decisions. Bring your most recent HbA1c if you have it.
- 4 Antibiotics in the last two weeks. Can mask a bacterial infection on an STD panel and change the timing advice.
- 5 Supplements and hormones. Testosterone, anabolic steroids, hair-loss medication, herbal products. Some affect fertility, gynecomastia and ED; all belong on the list.
A photograph of the medication boxes, or a screenshot of a pharmacy app, is enough — the urologist wants names and doses, not a formal document.
How to book in English
The five things to put in your first message — dates, concern, history, same-day or not, and where you are — and what comes back.
Read the booking guide →Photographs: which concerns do they help our Busan urologists with?
Photographs are optional, viewed by the urologist only and never shared, and for some concerns they change the first reply from a question into a plan. They help most for enlargement and lengthening(a flaccid and, if you are comfortable, an erect image), curvature(an erect image from above and from the side), foreskin problems, gynecomastia(front and side, arms relaxed), and any lump, lesion or scar. They do not help for ED, PE, prostate symptoms or STD concerns, where the history and tests do the work. If you would rather not send images, say so; the urologist examines on the day.
The history worth writing down
Not a document — a few lines in your message or on your phone, so nothing is forgotten in the room. How long the problem has been present and whether it is changing. What you have tried and what happened. Prior surgery or procedures in the same area, including circumcision as a child and any enlargement or injection elsewhere. Allergies, especially to antibiotics and anaesthetics. And the question you most want answered, in your own words, because the visit is built around it. The first visit guide explains where in the visit each of these is used.
What can you skip?
Translations — none are needed. A referral letter — none is required; Urogyn accepts direct bookings. Formal medical records requests from home hospitals, unless they contain one of the results above; a report you already hold is enough. Fasting — not required for any test on the list, though a morning appointment suits hormone draws. Special clothing — nothing beyond what makes examination easy. And cash in large amounts — fees are settled by card at the desk in Korean won at the published figures, and the foreigner pricing guide explains why the figure does not change on the day.
Extra items if a procedure is planned
Snug briefs rather than boxers, for the first days. Bring them to the visit.
So the slot sits with a realistic margin and the urologist can time the procedure to your departure.
A local doctor's name for follow-up coordination if examination is ever needed after you fly.
Provided or specified by the clinic — ask in the reply to your message rather than buying one first.
The visit guide covers the nights to plan for each procedure; the reply to your message states them for your case.
What to send before you travel
In one message from the contact page: your dates, the concern, the medication list (a photograph is fine), any of the results above, photographs if the concern is one they help, and the history in a few lines. You will receive a reply in English with the urologist's plan, the tests he expects — fewer, if your results cover them — the published price of each, and a time. Everything on this checklist that reaches the clinic before you travel is used before you arrive; the visit itself is then examination, decision and, where agreed, treatment.
How it runs at our Busan Seomyeon clinic — and your next step
Passport, card and any device or surgical letter in your bag; results, medication list, photographs and history on your phone and already sent. On the day, you give your name at the desk, meet the urologist who replied in a closed room, and leave with the plan and prices confirmed in writing. For the visit itself, see the first visit guide; for every figure mentioned here, the full price list.
- My results are in another language. Do I need to translate them? No. Send them as they are; laboratory reports are numeric and the urologist reads the values and reference ranges. A one-line note of what each document is helps.
- Should I stop my blood thinner before I come? Not without advice. Tell the clinic in your message; the urologist will say whether the planned procedure needs it stopped, for how long, and — where your own doctor should be involved — will say that too.
The urologists who perform your vasectomy.
Every guide on this site is written and reviewed by the three board-certified urologists below. The doctor who consults with you is the doctor who operates and answers your follow-up — never a junior doctor or a different surgeon.
What to bring — FAQ
Related pages and next reads
First Visit: What Happens
The visit minute by minute, from the lift to the written summary.
Book a Urologist in English
The five things to send — and where this checklist goes.
International Patients Guide
Routes, hotels and the nights to plan for each procedure.
Prostate Care in Busan
Where a PSA and prostate volume from home save the most.
Erectile Dysfunction in Busan
Why the medication list matters most for this visit.
All Urology Prices in Busan
Every test the clinic might otherwise repeat, with its published price.
Urogyn Men's Clinic, Seomyeon
7F-702, Ion City Building, 74 Seomyeon-ro, Busanjin-gu, Busan 47299 — one minute on foot from Seomyeon Station Exit 7 (Lines 1 & 2).
Mon–Fri 10:00–18:00 · Sat 10:00–14:00 · Sun closed
부산광역시 부산진구 서면로 74 아이온시티빌딩 7층 702호 — show this to your taxi driver.
Send what is on your phone. Bring what is in your wallet.
Your dates, concern, medication list, any results and — where they help — photographs, in one message, return a plan with fewer tests and a firmer price in English from the urologist who will see you at our Busan Seomyeon clinic.