A Gangnam dermatology clinic can usually fit an energy device, toxin and a skin booster into one visit of about one to two hours, because each step takes 10 to 30 minutes once numbing cream has worked. Whether all three belong on the same day is a separate question. The order of steps, the overlap of treated zones and the flight date decide how much a single sitting should carry.
Clinics in Korea
5 aesthetic clinics in Korea
| # | Clinic | Area | Languages | Devices & products | Listed price | Google rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springday Clinic Sinchon | Sinchon-ro | - | PicoSure · Restylane · Ultherapy Prime · Thermage FLX | ₩33,000 | 5.0 (48) |
| 2 | RE:BERRY Clinic Gangnam | Gangnam Station | English · 中文 · 日本語 · Español | Thermage FLX · Rejuran Healer · Laser toning · Juvederm | ₩9,900 | 4.9 (1,155) |
| 3 | Barog Clinic Seomyeon Station Branch | Seomyeon Station | English · 日本語 · 中文 · ไทย | Thermage FLX · Rejuran Healer · PicoWay · Hyaluronic acid filler | ₩10,000 | 5.0 (93) |
| 4 | RE:BERRY Clinic Myeongdong | Myeongdong Station | English · 中文 · 日本語 · Español | Ultherapy Prime · Thermage FLX · Rejuran Healer · PicoSure | ₩9,900 | 4.9 (1,091) |
| 5 | Rewind Plastic Surgery | Nonhyeon-ro | English · Español | Juvederm · Ultherapy Prime · Thermage FLX · Rejuran Healer | ₩50,000 | 5.0 (54) |
11. 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. International guests get visit guides and price lists in English, Japanese and Chinese.
Unhurried, physician-led skin care in Sinchon
- Physician-led care
- Transparent approach
- Calm two-floor clinic
- Care is built on three principles: honest consultation, genuine products and proper dosage.
- Every visit follows an ask, listen, understand, then treat consultation process.
First-timers wanting unhurried consultations · Visitors staying near Sinchon or Hongdae
- Location
- Sinchon-ro
- Listed price
- From ₩33,000 + VAT
22. RE:BERRY Clinic Gangnam
★ 4.91,155 Google reviewsRE:BERRY Clinic Gangnam is a skin and aesthetic clinic a 2-minute walk from Gangnam Station Exit 10, rated 4.9 from 1,155 Google reviews. Its main treatments are HIFU lifting, RF lifting and Botox. Consultations are available 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.
Evening or holiday appointments · Non-English speakers wanting own language
- Location
- Gangnam Station (Line 2) Exit 10, 2 min walk
- Languages
- English · 中文 · 日本語 · Español
- Listed price
- From ₩9,900 + VAT
33. Barog Clinic Seomyeon Station Branch
★ 5.093 Google reviewsBarog Clinic Seomyeon Station Branch sits near Seomyeon Station, a skin and aesthetic clinic that holds a 5.0 Google rating across 93 reviews. It focuses on HIFU lifting, Botox and fillers. It consults in English, Japanese, Chinese and Thai; listed prices start at ₩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.
Visitors wanting product transparency · Face and body filler seekers
- Location
- Seomyeon Station
- Languages
- English · 日本語 · 中文 · ไทย
- Listed price
- From ₩10,000 + VAT
44. RE:BERRY Clinic Myeongdong
★ 4.91,091 Google reviewsRE:BERRY Clinic Myeongdong runs a skin and aesthetic clinic near Myeongdong Station; its Google rating is 4.9 from 1,091 reviews. HIFU lifting, RF lifting and Botox lead its menu. Consultations are available in English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish, and its listed prices start from ₩9,900 + VAT. It welcomes patients every day, 10:30 to 20:00 on weekdays and 10:30 to 19:00 on weekends.
Myeongdong flagship for lifting, glass skin and stem cell
- Flagship space
- Open every day
- Six languages
- The clinic is a 2-minute walk from Myeongdong Station Exit 8, on the 2nd and 3rd floors at 58 Myeongdong 10-gil.
- In-house medical interpreters assist in English, Japanese, Spanish, Thai and both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
Sunday appointments · Glass skin booster programs
- Location
- Myeongdong Station (Line 4) / Euljiro-ipgu Station (Line 2)
- Languages
- English · 中文 · 日本語 · Español
- Listed price
- From ₩9,900 + 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. Staff consult in English and Spanish, and listed prices start at ₩50,000 + VAT. Menu centres on facelift, neck lift, double-chin liposuction and eyelid surgery.
Apgujeong lifting surgery clinic with a skin-care side
- Surgical lifting
- Same surgeon throughout
- Calm, private floors
- Board-certified plastic surgeons on staff
- Interpreter-assisted consultations via WhatsApp or Instagram, with English-subtitled doctor explainer videos.
- The same surgeon carries each case from first consultation to final follow-up.
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)
Range across 2 listed clinics · approx. $7₩9,900 + VATCompare clinicsBotox
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $7–$73From ₩10,000–₩100,000 + VATCompare clinicsMasseter (Jaw) Botox 50U (Domestic)
Range across 2 listed clinics · approx. $14–$21₩19,000–₩29,000 + VATCompare clinicsSkin Botox 1cc (Domestic)
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $21₩29,000 + 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 clinicsWrinkle Botox 1 Area (Domestic Premium, Nabota)
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $28₩39,000 + VATCompare clinicsWrinkle botulinum toxin (per area)
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $36₩50,000 + VATCompare clinicsGuide
Why a Gangnam visit turns into a combination day
Short trips push people to do everything at once. Clinics in Gangnam sit close together, and packages often bundle a lift, a laser and an injection under one name, so the plan follows the calendar rather than the skin.
Combining is not wrong in itself. Many doctors pair a device that works on firmness with an injection that works on lines or hydration, since each does something the other cannot. The trouble starts when two items aim at the same layer, when the same zone is heated twice, or when a recovery window lands on the day of a long flight.
Guide
The order steps usually follow in one sitting
Doctors commonly run energy devices before injections. Heat and handpiece pressure are easier to manage on untouched skin, and a freshly placed product is then left alone to settle. Practice varies, so ask to hear the planned sequence.
| Stage | Typical items | Why it sits here |
|---|---|---|
| Preparation | Cleansing, photos, numbing cream for 20 to 40 minutes | Numbing covers both device and needle work in one wait |
| Energy device | Focused ultrasound, radiofrequency or a laser | Works on intact skin before any product is placed |
| Injections | Toxin, hyaluronic acid filler or a skin booster | Product is placed last and not pressed or heated afterward |
| Soothing | Cooling, a calming mask, sun protection | Settles redness before you leave the building |
Guide
When an add-on adds little: a randomized trial
Extra components are often sold as boosters. A double-blind randomized trial by van Dongen and colleagues, published in Aesthetic Surgery Journal in 2021, tested that idea in 28 women, of whom 25 completed follow-up. All received fat grafting supplemented with platelet-rich plasma; half also received a mechanically isolated stromal vascular fraction and half received saline. Adding the stromal fraction did not improve skin elasticity, water loss, aging-related skin features or patient satisfaction over one year.
Fat grafting is a surgical procedure and rarely appears on a skin clinic menu, so the trial is no verdict on any Gangnam add-on. Its lesson is narrower: an extra ingredient can be safe and still add nothing measurable, so ask what a premium layer has shown on its own.
Guide
How the flight home changes what to combine
Air travel enters the picture for visitors. A 2024 cohort study by Hoyos and colleagues in Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance followed 3,367 patients at a plastic surgery practice in Bogota, 865 of them traveling from abroad. Medical tourists had a higher risk of complications than local patients, with an adjusted odds ratio of 4.6, and flights longer than four hours were linked to non-aesthetic complications such as infection and wound problems.
Those patients had surgery, and non-surgical skin work carries a lighter load. The planning principle still transfers: put the heaviest combination early in the stay, keep the final day before a long flight for light items or none, and leave time for a review visit if swelling or bruising is heavier than expected.
- Early in the trip: device plus injections, if the doctor agrees.
- Middle: a review visit and any top-up.
- Last day: rest and sun protection.
Guide
Signs a combination plan is carrying too much
Some plans look efficient on paper and are crowded in practice.
- Two heat-based devices on the same zone in one sitting without a stated reason.
- Filler and a skin booster stacked in the same small area on the same day.
- A product you have never tried, scheduled the day before a long-haul flight.
- A bundle price that shifts if one item is dropped, a sign the package drives the plan.
- No written list of each step, product and dose to take home.
Evidence
Research behind this page
- The Addition of Tissue Stromal Vascular Fraction to Platelet-Rich Plasma Supplemented Lipofilling Does Not Improve Facial Skin Quality: A Prospective Randomized Clinical TrialAesthetic Surgery Journal · 2021 · doi:10.1093/asj/sjab109
In a double-blind randomized trial, adding tissue stromal vascular fraction to PRP-supplemented fat grafting did not improve facial skin quality or satisfaction.
- Aeromedical Considerations for Patient Safety in Aesthetic Medical TourismAerospace Medicine and Human Performance · 2024 · doi:10.3357/amhp.6432.2024
Among 3,367 surgical patients, those traveling from abroad had more complications, and flights over four hours were linked to non-aesthetic complications.
FAQ
Questions about aesthetic clinics in Korea
Which clinics offer Aesthetic clinics in Korea?
Clinics offering Aesthetic clinics in Korea include Springday Clinic Sinchon (Sinchon-ro), RE:BERRY Clinic Gangnam (Gangnam Station), Barog Clinic Seomyeon Station Branch (Seomyeon Station), RE:BERRY Clinic Myeongdong (Myeongdong Station) 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 a Gangnam dermatology clinic do a laser and toxin in the same visit?
Yes, a laser or other energy device and toxin are commonly done in one visit, usually with the device first. Numbing cream covers both steps, and the toxin is placed after the skin has cooled. The doctor will still check whether the two target different concerns. If both aim at the same fine lines, one of them may be enough, and the other can wait for a later trip.
Why do doctors place filler after an energy device rather than before?
Placing filler last avoids heating, pressing or massaging a product that has only just been injected. Energy handpieces press on the skin and warm the tissue, and doctors generally prefer freshly placed hyaluronic acid to settle untouched. The exact order still varies with the device and the area. Ask the doctor to describe the sequence before numbing starts, so you know what will happen in the room.
Are premium add-ons such as PRP or stem-cell layers worth paying extra for?
It depends on what the add-on itself has shown, and some extras add little beyond the base treatment. A 2021 randomized trial by van Dongen and colleagues in Aesthetic Surgery Journal found that adding stromal vascular fraction to PRP-supplemented fat grafting did not improve skin quality. That was a surgical setting, yet the question carries over: ask what the add-on has shown in studies before accepting it.
How many treatments can I fit into one day in Gangnam?
Two or three non-surgical items in one sitting is a common pattern, such as one device plus one or two injections. Each step takes about 10 to 30 minutes after numbing, so the visit often runs one to two hours. Time is rarely the limit; the overlap of treated zones, your healing history and the days left before you fly matter more.
Should the heaviest treatment go at the start or the end of my trip?
Put it at the start, so swelling, bruising or redness has time to settle while you are still in Seoul. Starting early also leaves room for a review visit if anything looks off. Keep the last day before a long-haul flight light. Results vary from person to person, and a few spare days cost less than managing a reaction far from the clinic.
What should the written plan from a combination day include?
It should list every step in order with the device, product, dose or shot count and treated zone for each, plus the lot number of each injected product and the date. A doctor at home may need these details to read a later reaction or plan a repeat. A package name alone tells you very little once you are back.