The names below
are real patients.
GS Eye Center publishes signed photos and story posts from athletes, actors and K-pop artists who had surgery here - including MLB outfielder Lee Jung-hoo and members of IVE, Stray Kids and MONSTA X. Below is who they are and which procedure each had, exactly as the clinic lists them.
Three groups, three signatures
Group photos addressed "To. GS Eye Center", published on the clinic's own site.
An Yujin (lens implantation), Liz (SMILE LASIK) and Leeseo (SMILE Pro) each appear in the clinic's published story posts.
HAN (Golden SMILE) and I.N (SMILE LASIK) appear in the clinic's published story posts.
Shownu (Golden SMILE), Joohoney (SMILE LASIK) and Minhyuk (lens implantation) appear in the clinic's published story posts.
Names and procedures, as the clinic publishes them
Every row below comes from a story post or procedure page on the clinic's Korean site, which names the person and labels the procedure. We reproduce the mapping - not the stories.
| Name | Known for | Procedure |
|---|---|---|
| Lee Jung-hoo | Outfielder, San Francisco Giants (MLB) | Golden SMILE |
| Ko Woo-suk | Baseball pitcher | SMILE Pro |
| An Yujin | IVE | Lens implantation |
| Liz | IVE | SMILE LASIK |
| Leeseo | IVE | SMILE Pro |
| HAN | Stray Kids | Golden SMILE |
| I.N | Stray Kids | SMILE LASIK |
| Shownu | MONSTA X | Golden SMILE |
| Joohoney | MONSTA X | SMILE LASIK |
| Minhyuk | MONSTA X | Lens implantation |
| Kang Hyewon | IZ*ONE | Lens implantation |
| Kim Min-jong | Singer · actor | Lens implantation |
| Simeez | Dancer, LACHICA | SMILE Pro |
| Kim Ji-hyun | Actor | SMILE Pro |
| Peanut | Professional gamer (League of Legends) | SMILE Pro |
| Oh Sang-jin | TV host | 2Day LASEK |
| Moon Chae-won | Actor | 2Day LASEK |
| Lee Ji-young | Baseball player | 2Day LASEK |
| Kim Tae-hun | Taekwondo national team | 2Day LASEK |
| Cheon Ho-jin | Actor | Presbyopia · cataract surgery |
| Jang Hye-jin | Singer · university professor | Presbyopia · cataract surgery |
Full stories are published on our Korean site, inside its member area. We link the source rather than translate excerpts here, so no words are put in anyone's mouth. Individual results vary - a famous patient's outcome says nothing about yours; your exam does.
Most stories are from patients you've never heard of
The same Korean board carries story posts from non-celebrity patients - office workers, athletes' parents, people in their 50s and 60s after cataract surgery. Post titles like "It's been over nine years since my surgery" sit next to the signed idol photos. We don't republish those stories here: they were written for the clinic's member community, in Korean, by private individuals.
What we can show you instead: the procedures themselves, the equipment behind them, and the surgeons who perform them - so you can judge the clinic on what determines your own outcome.
About these stories
The names, procedure labels and signed photos on this page are published by GS Eye Center on its own Korean website - on the homepage, on procedure pages, and in its surgery-story board. We reproduce that public mapping without adding to it.
On the clinic's Korean site, gseyecenter.com, in the surgery-story board. The full posts sit behind a member login and are written in Korean. If a particular story matters to your decision, tell your coordinator - they can walk you through what the clinic has published.
Because the full texts are inside a member area, we would rather show you the verifiable facts - who, and which procedure - than paraphrase words we can't link. A quote appears on this site when the source is public and the wording is the patient's own - not before.
Honestly, no. What the list does tell you is that people with careers riding on their eyes - an MLB outfielder, performers, a professional gamer - chose this clinic. Your own outcome depends on your eyes, which is what the 50-test exam is for.