An echocardiogram is an ultrasound of the heart while it beats: chamber sizes, wall thickness, valve movement and pumping function, in about twenty minutes with no radiation. It is the test that shows how the heart is working rather than what its arteries look like.
Lying on your side, probe on the chest.
Sound waves only.
KMI's domestic Carnation program, ≈₩900,000. Hanaro includes it from Gold and KMI Global from Noble.
KMI Global's Noble program, ≈₩2,000,000, where the echocardiogram stops being one of a choice of three and is simply included.
One week is the earliest an imaging slot can be held, and there is no referral step before it.
English report in your hands in about a week. You also get a consultation on preliminary findings on the day of the screening, before you leave.
Programme contents and prices from each partner centre's own foreigner-facing published list, read 2026-08-05: KMI Global, Hanaro Medical Foundation's English site and MediOne's English site. Standalone per-test prices are MediOne's 비급여 (non-covered) posting, the itemised list 의료법 제45조 requires a clinic to publish, read the same day. Scheduling and report turnaround are Meridiko's own operating figures, confirmed 2026-08-06, not a centre's published ones (https://global.kmi.or.kr/examination/foreigner_examination; https://en-mobile.hanaromf.com/program/prog01/prog01_01.jsp; https://en.medionemedicalcenter.com/m1; https://medionemedicalcenter.com/115), measured 2026-08-05.
Pumping function (ejection fraction), chamber enlargement, wall thickening, valve narrowing or leakage, and fluid around the heart. It is the standard first test for a murmur, breathlessness or suspected heart failure.
It does not image the coronary arteries. A normal echocardiogram is entirely compatible with significant coronary artery disease, and that is the single most misread result in a screening report.
Suits: Anyone with a known murmur, breathlessness on exertion, palpitations, high blood pressure over years, or a family history of cardiomyopathy. Also anyone who wants heart function rather than heart-artery risk.
Should not have it: Nobody on safety grounds. If your actual question is about blocked arteries, a calcium score or a coronary CT answers it and this does not.
An echocardiogram shows the heart working; a coronary calcium score or a cardiac CT shows the arteries supplying it. They are complementary rather than alternatives, and a program that includes only one has answered only one of the two questions.
Available from the Comprehensive tier on this site as one of the cardiac options, and included outright in KMI Global's Noble program and Hanaro's Gold. Confirm with your coordinator whether your program has it as a choice or as an inclusion.
