well with covid, there’s a 10 day quarantine in korea. it’s all handled very smoothly and you’ll be automatically whisked from the airport to a “government facility” at your own expense. that expense is almost exactly $1000 USD flat and the facility is actually some random nice hotel somewhere. they deliver you food and drinks 3 times a day and when you’re free, you get picked up by Yeson and taken to a hotel you would have booked previously near Yeson. they like to do an initial appointment, and then surgery the next day, with a follow up usually a week later or in my case just 2 days later. so that seems flexible.

so total time would be like 2 and a half weeks max including the quarantine? if you reach out to their english liaison Jessie, she’ll mock up a schedule for you so you can see if it something you’re interested in. hotels are very cheap there now, probably cause they’re mostly empty.

edit: sorry didn’t even answer the question. someone else commented it but yes… surgery recently went up to $8400. so that plus mandatory quarantine and flights and hotel is like 10,000 11,000 range for everything

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i am done with voice rest. he suggested 2 months but the normal is 1 month and it’s been 1 month. my voice sounds very much the same as before, slightly higher and different in timbre. in the couple days i’ve been speaking it’s went up slightly but is expected to do most pitch increasing at the 2-4 month mark. i used an app to measure the pitch range of my normal speaking voice and i can see it’s currently up from 92hz-137hz to 116hz-175hz.

other than the slight pitch increase and slight different texture of my voice, the biggest difference is there’s no low part anymore. i can’t make low deep sounds at all. it just kinda gives a tug feeling and my voice feels tired. i think in a week or two, and definitely in a month when the botox wears off, i’ll have more progress to share.