RIBFIT™ autologous rib cartilage
A graft shaped from your own rib
Instead of silicone, your own rib cartilage is diced and shaped —
easing the burden of foreign-body reaction and warping.
Endless thought and research, for the patient
KOWON RIBFIT™
Kim Hyung-taek Director
- Board-certified plastic surgeon
- 24 years on nose surgery
- Two operations a day, no more
KOWON RIBFIT™
Not silicone — your own
rib cartilage
RIBFIT™ is KOWON's autologous implant: your own rib cartilage,
diced finely and shaped to fit your nose. Rather than putting something in,
we chose to build it from your own tissue.
kowon program
KOWON Signature
Explore four KOWON signature procedures: RIBFIT™,
drooping tip correction, nasolabial angle surgery, and nasal thread removal.
Drooping Tip Correction
A tip that stays put, even when you smile
A tip that drops when you smile, an arrow nose, a long nose — the cause is the muscle pulling the tip down. At KOWON we correct the depressor muscle itself, for a tip line that does not relapse.
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J-Curl Rhinoplasty
A protruding-mouth look, solved through rhinoplasty
Change the impression of the mouth area without protrusion surgery. A KOWON signature operation correcting the nasolabial angle and the ACR (columella–philtrum line) to complete the profile as a J-curl.
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Nose Thread Removal
The threads out, the nose intact
Safely resolving the complications of nose thread lifts — inflammation, extrusion and contracture. We remove the threads and foreign material in one procedure and, where needed, plan the revision rhinoplasty alongside it.
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Right After
See the nose immediately after rhinoplasty,
exactly as it is before recovery.
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Low, small nose with refined tip — immediately after rhinoplasty -
Bulbous nose with a more defined tip — immediately after rhinoplasty -
Bulbous and deviated nose revision with thread removal — immediately after surgery -
Male hump-nose correction — immediately after rhinoplasty -
Bulbous nose, thick bridge and blunt tip correction — immediately after rhinoplasty -
Male hump-nose correction — immediately after rhinoplasty
Outcomes and side effects vary from person to person.
Bleeding, infection, swelling and asymmetry may occur. Please consult our medical team before making a decision.
Proven Results
KOWON —
results that hold
More than 10,000 cumulative rhinoplasty
perations · Internal clinic records
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24yrs
Years of practice,
Dr. Kim Hyung-taek -
10,000+
Rhinoplasty
operations to date -
2,427
Patient
reviews -
635
KOWON
TV videos
KOWON Shorts
The essentials of rhinoplasty in under a minute.
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Flew All the Way from India to Korea… For THIS Transformation!
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Nose Job That Transformed My Side Profile & Lip Line
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Wide Nose & Low Bridge Correction
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Hump nose surgery — day 5. Here's the side profile
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Short, upturned nose? Here's day 23 after male rhinoplasty
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The Real Reason Behind My Nose Revision
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Nose tip drooping down? Long or arrow nose — 6 day result
KOWON Youtube
From how the surgery works to how recovery goes — explained by the director himself
reviews
Handwritten Reviews
Handwritten notes left by patients after their surgery.
Reviews reflect individual experience; treatment outcomes vary from person to person.
Outcomes and side effects vary from person to person. Bleeding, infection, swelling and asymmetry may occur.
Please consult our medical team before making a decision.
reviews
Surgery Log
How Dr. Kim Hyung-taek read each case before surgery and what he decided —
kept as written in the clinical record.
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Nasal tip
The Tip Drops When I Smile — Is Raising the Tip Enough?
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Nasal tip
Drooping Nasal Tip Surgery: Why the Tip Drops More When You Smile — Support, Muscle and Nasolabial Angle
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Implant-free
Hump correction reaching the drooping tip — implant-free. Why shaving bone alone isn't enough
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Nasal tip
Low-nose surgery with a low glabella — why the bridge alone isn't enough: starting point and line connection
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Nasal tip
Bulbous Tip Surgery — Why Refining Only the Tip Isn't Enough: A Case Seen Through Proportion and Support Structure
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Bulbous tip · alae
Bulbous-nose surgery — is reducing the alae alone enough? Distinguishing a blunt nose, a spread nose, and a nose that spreads when smiling
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Nasal tip
Male upturned·short nose correction — why lowering the tip angle alone falls short: support structure·skin·proportion checkpoints
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Nasal tip
Swelling after tip cartilage tying — if only the tip still looks blunt — recovery flow and checking criteria
Outcomes and side effects vary from person to person. Bleeding, infection, swelling and asymmetry may occur.
Please consult our medical team before making a decision.
Getting here
2F KBL Building, 110 Dosan-daero
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
One minute on foot from Sinsa Station Exit 1, Gangnam-gu
Clinic hours
- Mon – Thu
- 09:30 – 19:00
- Friday
- 09:30 – 21:00 (late hours)
- Saturday
- 09:30 – 16:00
- Sunday & holidays
- Closed