Why We Chose the Lotte Hotel
When Dr. Kim Yang-hu opened Seomyeon L Urology in 2016, the choice of Busan Lotte Hotel 14F was deliberate. The 14th floor of a business hotel offers something no street-level medical building can: patients who look like hotel guests, because they are. They arrive through the hotel entrance, take the hotel elevator, and visit a clinic on a floor with no other clinics or medical offices. The consultation is private at the architectural level, not just the legal one.
For a urology practice specialising in men's sexual and urological health — conditions that men typically delay addressing precisely because the consultation feels exposing — this matters clinically. Patients who would not walk past a street-level urology clinic sign readily use a hotel elevator. The result is earlier consultations and better outcomes.
Clinic Facts
| Established | 2016 |
| Location | 14F Busan Lotte Hotel, Busanjin-gu |
| Foreign patient nationalities | 28 |
| KHIDI Registration | M-2025-06-03-00412 |
| Aquablation certification | 2022 (PROCEPT BioRobotics) |
| Languages | English, Japanese, Chinese |
| Hours | Mon–Fri 09:00–18:00 · Sat 09:00–13:00 |
The Aquablation Decision
Seomyeon L Urology invested in PROCEPT BioRobotics certification in 2022 because the WATER trial evidence was clear: for sexually active BPH patients, Aquablation delivers TURP-equivalent symptom relief with ejaculation preserved in 92% — versus ~35% for TURP. This procedural capability is the direct expression of the clinic's founding clinical philosophy.
