Healing Paper ‘Gangnam Sister’ Receives 2024 Korea Innovation Award

Healing Paper’s (CEO Hong Seung-il) beauty information platform ‘Gangnam Sister’ won the grand prize in the K-Startup (App) category at the Money Today ‘2024 Korea Innovation Awards’ held at the Press Center in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 25th.

Healing Paper CEO Hong Seung-il (right) is taking a commemorative photo with Money Today Executive Director Song Ki-yong (left) after winning the ‘2024 Korea Innovation Award’.

The Korea Innovation Awards is an event established to recognize and encourage the contributions of innovative companies that have contributed to the domestic economy and industrial development by selecting companies that have grown through technological and management innovation even in difficult economic conditions.

Founded in 2012, the company launched the ‘Gangnam Sister’ service in 2015 and is helping medical consumers search and select hospitals through 1.2 million actual consumer reviews and non-covered procedure price information provided by 5,000 doctors. In addition, it entered Japan in November 2019 and is operating a service that allows Japanese patients to visit Korean and Japanese hospitals. Currently, 3,200 hospitals and 6 million users in Korea and Japan have signed up, and it is growing rapidly.

In December 2023, the company is also seeking to expand its global business by launching ‘UNNI’, a platform for attracting foreign patients to Korean dermatology and plastic surgery.

The ‘Sister’ service provides global users (users) with price information and 1.7 million consumer reviews of Korean dermatologists and plastic surgeons. Users can use the service in English anywhere in the world by downloading the Unni app.

Users can have chat consultations with hospitals they are interested in. Consultations are automatically translated into 13 languages ​​supported by the Papago translation system, including Thai, Vietnamese, and Chinese. Healing Paper plans to expand the types of languages ​​supported for medical information, such as reviews of Korean hospitals, in the future.

Hong Seung-il, CEO of Healing Paper, said, “Based on the experience and know-how we have accumulated so far in Korea and Japan, we will strive to promote Korean medical services to more countries and contribute to attracting foreign patients in Korea.”

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