The best skin clinic in Myeongdong screens you before choosing a treatment, asking about your age, how loose the skin is, smoking, body weight and any recent skin infection. That step matters because a 2014 review in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology linked uneven results from skin-tightening devices partly to patient selection, alongside the device, the protocol and the area treated.
Clinics in Korea
5 aesthetic clinics in Korea
| # | Clinic | Devices & products | Area | Languages | Listed price | Google rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barog Clinic Seomyeon Station Branch | Hyaluronic acid filler · Ultherapy Prime · Thermage FLX · Rejuran Healer | Seomyeon Station | English · 日本語 · 中文 · ไทย | ₩10,000 | 5.0 (93) |
| 2 | Dear Clinic | Rejuran Healer · Laser toning · Juvederm · Ultherapy Prime | Cheongdam-dong | English · Español | ₩30,000 | 4.9 (354) |
| 3 | RE:BERRY Clinic Gangnam | Rejuran Healer · Laser toning · Juvederm · Ultherapy Prime | Gangnam Station | English · 中文 · 日本語 · Español | ₩9,900 | 4.9 (1,155) |
| 4 | Springday Clinic Sinchon | Restylane · Ultherapy Prime · Thermage FLX · Rejuran Healer | Sinchon-ro | - | ₩33,000 | 5.0 (48) |
| 5 | Rewind Plastic Surgery | Juvederm · Ultherapy Prime · Thermage FLX · Rejuran Healer | Nonhyeon-ro | English · Español | ₩50,000 | 5.0 (54) |
11. Barog Clinic Seomyeon Station Branch
★ 5.093 Google reviewsBarog Clinic Seomyeon Station Branch is a skin and aesthetic clinic near Seomyeon Station, rated 5.0 from 93 Google reviews. HIFU lifting, Botox and fillers lead its menu. It consults in English, Japanese, Chinese and Thai; its listed prices start from ₩10,000 + VAT. Posted price boards apply equally to visitors and locals, with consultations in English, Chinese and Japanese.
Seomyeon filler and lifting clinic with open-vial transparency
- Filler-focused
- Transparent pricing
- Welcoming 2F lounge
- Every filler vial is unsealed at the chair in front of you, with lot numbers you can check.
- Importer authenticity certificates for all brands used hang on the clinic wall to photograph.
Lifting plans in Busan · Visitors wanting product transparency
- Location
- Seomyeon Station
- Languages
- English · 日本語 · 中文 · ไทย
- Listed price
- From ₩10,000 + VAT
22. Dear Clinic
★ 4.9354 Google reviewsDear Clinic sits in Cheongdam-dong, a skin and aesthetic clinic that holds a 4.9 Google rating across 354 reviews. Its main treatments are HIFU lifting, RF lifting and Botox. Consultations are available in English and Spanish; listed prices start at ₩30,000 + VAT. Open every day of the year, with English consultation and WhatsApp booking before you fly.
Scan-first Cheongdam lifting clinic, open every day
- Lifting-focused
- 3D scan first
- Warm-luxury interior
- An EVE Muse 3D skin scan is taken and read before any treatment is recommended.
- Filler menu extends beyond the face to earlobe, shoulder line and hip dip areas.
Short trips needing weekend slots · Filler beyond lips and chin
- Location
- Cheongdam-dong
- Languages
- English · Español
- Listed price
- From ₩30,000 + VAT
33. RE:BERRY Clinic Gangnam
★ 4.91,155 Google reviewsRE:BERRY Clinic Gangnam runs a skin and aesthetic clinic a 2-minute walk from Gangnam Station Exit 10; its Google rating is 4.9 from 1,155 reviews. It focuses on HIFU lifting, RF lifting and Botox. It consults in English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish, and its listed prices start from ₩9,900 + VAT. Open every day, 10:00–20:00 including holidays, two minutes from Gangnam Station Exit 10.
Gangnam Station skin clinic built around five-language care
- Five-language desk
- Gallery-style interior
- Regenerative skin menu
- Board-certified dermatologists on staff
- Consultations in English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Spanish through in-house interpreters.
- Offers 90 days of multilingual messenger follow-up after visitors return home.
Non-English speakers wanting own language · Evening or holiday appointments
- Location
- Gangnam Station (Line 2) Exit 10, 2 min walk
- Languages
- English · 中文 · 日本語 · Español
- Listed price
- From ₩9,900 + VAT
44. Springday Clinic Sinchon
★ 5.048 Google reviewsSpringday Clinic Sinchon is a skin and aesthetic clinic in Sinchon-ro, rated 5.0 from 48 Google reviews. RF lifting, skin boosters and laser toning lead its menu. Listed prices start at ₩33,000 + VAT. Every visit follows an ask, listen, understand, then treat consultation process.
Unhurried, physician-led skin care in Sinchon
- Physician-led care
- Transparent approach
- Calm two-floor clinic
- The clinic openly shares the names and backgrounds of all physicians working there.
- Care is built on three principles: honest consultation, genuine products and proper dosage.
First-timers wanting unhurried consultations · Visitors staying near Sinchon or Hongdae
- Location
- Sinchon-ro
- Listed price
- From ₩33,000 + VAT
55. Rewind Plastic Surgery
★ 5.054 Google reviewsRewind Plastic Surgery is a plastic surgery clinic in Nonhyeon-ro, rated 5.0 from 54 Google reviews. Its main treatments are plastic surgery, HIFU lifting and RF lifting. Consultations are available in English and Spanish; its listed prices start from ₩50,000 + VAT. The same surgeon carries each case from first consultation to final follow-up.
Apgujeong lifting surgery clinic with a skin-care side
- Surgical lifting
- Same surgeon throughout
- Calm, private floors
- Board-certified plastic surgeons on staff
- Botox, Ultherapy Prime, Thermage FLX, Rejuran and Juvelook are offered, planned separately from surgery.
- Interpreter-assisted consultations via WhatsApp or Instagram, with English-subtitled doctor explainer videos.
Combining Botox with lifting consult · Jawline and neck concerns
- Location
- Nonhyeon-ro
- Languages
- English · Español
- Listed price
- From ₩50,000 + VAT
Prices
Aesthetic clinics cost in Korea
Prices below come from the listed clinics' own price lists, before VAT. 10% VAT is added at payment.
Wrinkle Botox 1 Area (Domestic)
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $7₩9,900 + VATCompare clinicsBotox
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $7–$73From ₩10,000–₩100,000 + VATCompare clinicsMasseter (Jaw) Botox 50U (Domestic)
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $21₩29,000 + VATCompare clinicsWrinkle Botox (1 area: forehead / glabella / crow's feet / mouth corners / chin dimpling / bunny lines) — Korean
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $22₩30,000 + VATCompare clinicsWrinkle Treatment, 1 Area – Korean Brand
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $24₩33,000 + VATCompare clinicsWrinkle Botox 1 Area (Nabota)
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $28₩39,000 + VATCompare clinicsSquare Jaw Botox — Korean
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $29₩40,000 + VATCompare clinicsWrinkle botulinum toxin (per area)
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $36₩50,000 + VATCompare clinicsGuide
Why a walk-in visit and a screened visit differ
Myeongdong mixes clinics with cosmetics shops, money changers and street food, so many visitors drop in between errands. A walk-in visit often starts from the menu: you point at a treatment, and the clinic fits you into the next free slot.
A screened visit runs the other way. Questions come first, the treatment is chosen to match the answers, and sometimes the answer is to treat less or not at all.
Guide
Six factors that change how skin responds to tightening
Northington, reviewing noninvasive tightening devices in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology in 2014, listed patient factors that could shape the response. A careful screening touches on each one.
| Factor | Why it can matter | What a screening question sounds like |
|---|---|---|
| Age | Older skin may respond less to the same heat | How has your skin changed in recent years? |
| Degree of laxity | Mild looseness and heavy folds need different plans | Can you show where the skin feels loosest? |
| Smoking | Listed as a possible drag on the response | Do you smoke, and how often? |
| Skin tone and ethnicity | Affects heat settings and pigment risk | Have you had darkening after past treatments? |
| Body mass index | Fuller tissue can change how much lift shows | Has your weight changed recently or will it soon? |
| Pain threshold | Limits the energy a person can tolerate | How did earlier device sessions feel? |
Guide
What the 2014 review could not settle
Northington noted that tightening devices, from monopolar and bipolar radiofrequency to infrared and focused ultrasound, have produced inconsistent outcomes. The variability could come from the device, the treatment protocol, the body area or the patient, and the literature did not show consistently which variable predicts the strongest response.
For a visitor, this means no screening can turn a tightening session into a fixed result. A careful clinic should still speak in ranges, and hearing that you are a moderate candidate is more useful than a promise.
Guide
Infection questions that belong in the screening
Qureshi and colleagues surveyed members of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery about tourists who came home with complications, reporting in Aesthetic Surgery Journal Open Forum in 2019. Of 93 responding surgeons, more than half had seen two to five such patients in the previous 12 months. The most common complication was infection, usually managed as an outpatient without further surgery, and the most common procedure behind it was abdominoplasty.
Skin treatments carry a far smaller wound than surgery, yet needles and microneedling still open the skin. That is why a few infection questions deserve a place in any screening, even for a short session.
- Any cold sore in the past weeks, since some treatments around the mouth can trigger a new one.
- Broken, sunburned or freshly peeled skin on the area.
- Plans for swimming pools, saunas or hot springs in the days after treatment.
Guide
When being turned away is the useful answer
A clinic that declines to treat you on a given day is often protecting the result. Common reasons include a fresh sunburn, an active cold sore, laxity that a device will barely touch, or a request to stack several heat treatments into one afternoon.
Ask what would make you a good candidate later: a few days of healing, a different device, or a consultation with a surgeon. That answer turns a refusal into a plan for your next visit to Seoul.
Evidence
Research behind this page
- Patient selection for skin‐tightening proceduresJournal of Cosmetic Dermatology · 2014 · doi:10.1111/jocd.12106
A review noting inconsistent outcomes from noninvasive tightening devices and listing age, laxity, smoking, ethnicity, body mass index and pain threshold as possible factors in patient response.
- Report on Current Experience of ASAPS Membership and Management of Cosmetic Tourism ComplicationsAesthetic Surgery Journal Open Forum · 2019 · doi:10.1093/asjof/ojz009
A survey of US aesthetic plastic surgeons found that complications in returning cosmetic tourists were mostly infections, usually resolved with outpatient care.
FAQ
Questions about aesthetic clinics in Korea
Which clinics offer Aesthetic clinics in Korea?
Clinics offering Aesthetic clinics in Korea include Barog Clinic Seomyeon Station Branch (Seomyeon Station), Dear Clinic (Cheongdam-dong), RE:BERRY Clinic Gangnam (Gangnam Station), Springday Clinic Sinchon (Sinchon-ro) and Rewind Plastic Surgery (Nonhyeon-ro). Each lists Aesthetic clinics on its own menu; message the clinic directly to confirm the doctor, product and current price.
Can I walk into a skin clinic in Myeongdong without booking?
Many clinics in the area accept walk-ins when a slot is free, but a booked visit leaves more room for screening. If you do drop in, ask for a consultation first and treatment later the same day or the next. That gap lets you think over the plan, look up product names and check that the recovery fits the rest of your trip.
Does age change how well skin tightening works?
It can, although research has not pinned down how much. Northington's 2014 review in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology listed age among several factors that may shape the response to tightening devices. Younger skin with mild looseness is often a more predictable candidate. Older skin may still improve, so ask the doctor what change is realistic for your face rather than relying on an age rule.
Why would a clinic ask whether I smoke?
Smoking appears in Northington's 2014 review as one of the patient factors that may affect the response to tightening treatments, so it belongs in the screening. It can also slow healing after needles or microneedling. Answer honestly, since the doctor may adjust the plan or suggest a treatment with less heat. Results vary from person to person, and the question is about planning, not judgment.
What does the best skin clinic myeongdong visitors choose ask first?
It usually starts with your goal, then moves to health questions that change the plan: pregnancy, medicines that raise bruising, recent sunburn, cold sores and past filler. After that come questions about laxity, skin tone and how earlier treatments felt. A screening like this takes a little longer than pointing at a menu, but it is how the plan ends up matched to your skin.
Are infections common after cosmetic treatment abroad?
Infection is the complication surgeons at home report most often in returning cosmetic tourists, according to a 2019 survey by Qureshi and colleagues. Most of those cases followed surgery such as abdominoplasty and were treated as outpatients. Skin treatments carry a smaller risk, but keeping the area clean, skipping saunas and pools for a few days and reporting spreading redness early all help.
Is the best skin clinic in Myeongdong one that never says no?
No, a clinic that sometimes declines or scales back is usually reading your skin carefully. Saying no to treatment on a sunburned or broken area protects you from a poor result or a longer recovery. Ask what would need to change before treatment makes sense. Often the answer is a few days of healing or a different device, which you can plan into the trip.