Health checkups in Korea

Package tiers, fasting rules, one-day vs two-day formats, how results are delivered.

• Checkup: one-day vs. two-day, fasting

  What the checkup day looks like hour by hour, how the preparation kit and fasting work, what sedation changes, and when the two-day format is worth it.

• Cancer screening packages

  What Korean 'cancer screening' add-ons contain, what each test can and cannot tell you, and the questions to ask before paying for whole-body imaging.

• Health checkup packages

  How Korean hospitals tier their checkup packages, what one-day vs. two-day formats actually mean, and what to check before booking one as a foreign visitor.

While this section fills up, the general guides cover the parts that apply to every procedure — quotes, payment, interpreting and stay length.