Beauty for Life, Abu Dhabi
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 70.3/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #16 of 23 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Korean-staffed cosmetic and plastic-surgery centre in Al Muntazah, Abu Dhabi. Its doctors page names seven plastic surgeons with their fields, from eyelid and nose surgery to body and reconstructive work. Four of them hold active Plastic Surgery licences at this facility in the DoH Abu Dhabi clinician register, and the facility is on the DoH facility register.
Registers read for the jurisdiction: AUH.
Google Maps listing (reference, not scored)
What the clinic's public Google Maps listing showed when we read it: the rating other people gave, the number of their reviews and the hours the clinic itself publishes there. This block is a reference only — it does not enter the score, the rank, the ceilings or the holds, and we have not checked it beyond matching the listing to this record.
| Google rating | 4.2 out of 5 · reviews: 94 |
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| Opening hours as published on the listing |
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| Open the listing on Google Maps | Google Maps |
Source: Google Maps, read 4 October 2026. The listing was matched to this record by the clinic's website address, the clinic's phone number.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Found, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. DoH Abu Dhabi clinician register (file generated 2026-09-02): GD48151 Jong Woo Choi, Consultant Physician, Profession Plastic Surgery, status Active (2026-04-06 to 2028-04-05) at Beauty for Life - L.L.C - S.P.C, MF8158, Al Bateen; GD47877 Sang Tae Kim, GD46922 Kyung Suck Koh and GD46923 Hyungbo Sim hold Active Plastic Surgery licences at the same facility. Specialty matches the cosmetic and plastic surgery menu the centre publishes. [xlsx-clin] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. The centre’s own doctors page names seven surgeons with their roles and fields and ties them to this centre. [site-doctors] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Matched by name in the same DoH register; the centre publishes no physician licence number. [xlsx-clin] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. DoH Abu Dhabi facility register: MF8158, Beauty for Life - L.L.C - S.P.C, region Abu Dhabi. Name and region match what the centre publishes. [xlsx-fac] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. Brand name only; no legal entity or company number published on the centre’s own pages. The federal legal-entity register is reCAPTCHA-gated. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence, registration or approval numbers are published anywhere on the centre’s own pages. [site] [site-contact] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. Lexicon scan of the centre’s own English pages (home, /our-doctors/, /services/, /korean-cosmetic-surgery-center/ and /contact-us/): no guarantee; one or two soft expressions in the introductory copy. [site-korean] we bring the finest of Korean beauty and aesthetic expertise all the way from Korea to Abu Dhabi |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency A load-bearing fact (physician or number) differs. Mechanical comparison of 3 language fronts (en, ar, ko) on 2026-09-20: phone numbers differ between fronts (no number in common). [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M9 | Patient documents None. Pages loaded: home, /our-doctors/, /services/, /korean-cosmetic-surgery-center/ and /contact-us/. No informed-consent, risks, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint material found. [site] [site-services] [site-contact] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] [site-doctors] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] [site-doctors] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] [site-doctors] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] [site-doctors] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Jong Woo Choi [site-doctors] [xlsx-clin] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon | DoH GD48151 (Active) |
| Dr. Sang Tae Kim [site-doctors] [xlsx-clin] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon | DoH GD47877 (Active) |
| Dr. Hyung Joo Noh [site-doctors] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
What we could not verify
Every applicable axis holds a sourced value.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.beautyforlife.ae/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +971 54 791 7016 |
| Address | 230 Khalaf Bin Mohammed Al Muhairi Street, Al Muntazah – Zone 1, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
| City | Abu Dhabi |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.beautyforlife.ae/ | clinic's own site | gate, brand, language fronts, M5, M6 | 20 September 2026 |
| site-doctors | https://www.beautyforlife.ae/our-doctors/ | clinic's own site | surgeon names, roles and fields, M2 | 20 September 2026 |
| site-services | https://www.beautyforlife.ae/services/ | clinic's own site | treatment menu, segments, M9 | 20 September 2026 |
| site-korean | https://www.beautyforlife.ae/korean-cosmetic-surgery-center/ | clinic's own site | centre description, M7 | 20 September 2026 |
| site-contact | https://www.beautyforlife.ae/contact-us/ | clinic's own site | address and phone, M6, M9 | 20 September 2026 |
| xlsx-clin | https://shafafiyaportal.doh.gov.ae/Dictionary/Licenses/ClinicianLic… | official register | xlsx https://shafafiyaportal.doh.gov.ae/Dictionary/Licenses/ClinicianLicenses.xlsx rows: GD48151 (Jong Woo Choi, Plastic Surgery, Active, Beauty for Life - L.L.C - S.P.C MF8158); GD47877 (Sang Tae Kim); GD46922 (Kyung Suck Koh); GD46923 (Hyungbo Sim) | 20 September 2026 |
| xlsx-fac | https://shafafiyaportal.doh.gov.ae/Dictionary/Licenses/FacilityLice… | official register | xlsx https://shafafiyaportal.doh.gov.ae/Dictionary/Licenses/FacilityLicenses.xlsx row: MF8158 (Beauty for Life - L.L.C - S.P.C, Abu Dhabi, Hospital) | 20 September 2026 |
| fronts | https://www.beautyforlife.ae/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — en: https://www.beautyforlife.ae/ | ar: https://www.beautyforlife.ae/ar/ | ko: https://www.beautyforlife.ae/ko/ | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 2 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 20 September 2026 | Initial collection (v1.2 pass 1). |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.