A Gangnam dermatology clinic menu often files skin boosters, polynucleotide (PN) injections such as Rejuran, exosome solutions and PDO threads under one word, regenerative, although they act in different ways. Rejuran alone is placed as 200 to 300 tiny injection points, and its effect usually lasts four to six months. For women whose skin is thinning in midlife, what each product does matters more than the label.
Clinics in Korea
5 aesthetic clinics in Korea
| # | Clinic | Devices & products | Area | Languages | Listed price | Google rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kind Global Clinic | Thermage FLX · Rejuran Healer · PicoSure · Juvederm | Euljiro-ipgu Station | English · 日本語 · 中文 · Español | ₩89,000 | 4.9 (359) |
| 2 | RE:BERRY Clinic Gangnam | Thermage FLX · Rejuran Healer · Laser toning · Juvederm | Gangnam Station | English · 中文 · 日本語 · Español | ₩9,900 | 4.9 (1,155) |
| 3 | Summit Clinic | PicoSure · Restylane · Ultherapy Prime · Thermage FLX | Gwanghwamun Station | - | - | 5.0 (157) |
| 4 | RE:BERRY Clinic Myeongdong | Ultherapy Prime · Thermage FLX · Rejuran Healer · PicoSure | Myeongdong Station | English · 中文 · 日本語 · Español | ₩9,900 | 4.9 (1,091) |
| 5 | Rewind Plastic Surgery | Juvederm · Ultherapy Prime · Thermage FLX · Rejuran Healer | Nonhyeon-ro | English · Español | ₩50,000 | 5.0 (54) |
11. Kind Global Clinic
★ 4.9359 Google reviewsKind Global Clinic runs a skin and aesthetic clinic by Euljiro-ipgu Station Exit 6; its Google rating is 4.9 from 359 reviews. HIFU lifting, RF lifting and Botox lead its menu. It consults in English, Japanese, Chinese and Spanish; its listed prices start from ₩89,000 + VAT. Every procedure is performed personally by one of the clinic's co-directors, with no handoff.
Boutique Myeongdong clinic with co-director-led treatment
- Boutique clinic
- One private floor
- Director-performed care
- A free pre-consultation runs on WhatsApp or LINE, where you send photos and receive a treatment plan.
- The clinic is a 5-minute walk from Myeongdong Station Exit 6 on Line 4.
Planning treatment before flying in · Weekend or holiday appointments
- Location
- Euljiro-ipgu Station (Line 2) Exit 6 / Myeongdong Station (Line 4) Exit 8
- Languages
- English · 日本語 · 中文 · Español
- Listed price
- From ₩89,000 + VAT
22. RE:BERRY Clinic Gangnam
★ 4.91,155 Google reviewsRE:BERRY Clinic Gangnam is a 2-minute walk from Gangnam Station Exit 10, a skin and aesthetic clinic with a 4.9 average 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 listed prices start at ₩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
33. Summit Clinic
★ 5.0157 Google reviewsSummit Clinic is a skin and aesthetic clinic a 3-minute walk from Gwanghwamun Station Exit 5, rated 5.0 from 157 Google reviews. It focuses on RF lifting, skin boosters and laser toning. The clinic opens weekdays 10:30 to 20:30 with no lunch break, and Saturdays 10:00 to 17:00.
Gwanghwamun skin clinic for lifting, lasers and skin boosters
- Lifting devices
- Laser & pigment
- Warm beige lounge
- The site runs in Korean, English and Chinese, with WhatsApp, LINE, WeChat and KakaoTalk contact.
- It is a three-minute walk from Gwanghwamun Station Exit 5 and City Hall Station Exit 4.
Lifting and skin booster plans · Weekday evening appointments
- Location
- Gwanghwamun Station Exit 5, 3 min walk
44. RE:BERRY Clinic Myeongdong
★ 4.91,091 Google reviewsRE:BERRY Clinic Myeongdong sits near Myeongdong Station, a skin and aesthetic clinic that holds a 4.9 Google rating across 1,091 reviews. HIFU lifting, RF lifting and Botox lead its menu. Consultations are available in English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish, and listed prices start at ₩9,900 + VAT. Lifting choices include Ultherapy Prime, Thermage FLX, Sofwave and Titanium Lifting, all performed by licensed physicians.
Myeongdong flagship for lifting, glass skin and stem cell
- Flagship space
- Open every day
- Six languages
- In-house medical interpreters assist in English, Japanese, Spanish, Thai and both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
- It welcomes patients every day, 10:30 to 20:00 on weekdays and 10:30 to 19:00 on weekends.
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 runs a plastic surgery clinic in Nonhyeon-ro; its Google rating is 5.0 from 54 reviews. Its main treatments are plastic surgery, HIFU lifting and RF lifting. Consultations are available in English and Spanish, and 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
- Interpreter-assisted consultations via WhatsApp or Instagram, with English-subtitled doctor explainer videos.
- Botox, Ultherapy Prime, Thermage FLX, Rejuran and Juvelook are offered, planned separately from surgery.
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 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 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 clinicsSkin Botox 1 Area (Domestic)
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $43₩59,000 + VATCompare clinicsHyperhidrosis Botox 50U (Hands/Feet/Armpits/Scalp) (Domestic)
Price at 1 listed clinic · approx. $50₩69,000 + VATCompare clinicsGuide
Why a Gangnam dermatology clinic leans on the word regenerative
Aesthetic medicine has moved from adding volume toward improving the quality of the skin itself: texture, firmness, hydration. Regenerative is the word that sells that shift, and it now appears beside almost any injectable that is not plain filler.
Barbosa, writing in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology in 2026, argues that the word is often used without biological precision. It blurs into repair, remodeling and biostimulation, which are not the same process. For a patient, that means two products sold under the same label may share little beyond the needle.
Guide
How a 2026 review sorted the products
The review grouped common materials by how they act and by how strong the clinical evidence is. Its conclusion is that a regenerative claim should rest on mechanism, integration with the tissue and durability, not on a change that fades within weeks.
| Product group | How it acts, per the review | Clinical evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Particulate collagen stimulators | Sustained remodeling of the dermal matrix | The most consistent of the groups |
| Hyaluronic acid skin boosters | Change the local environment of the skin | Limited regenerative depth |
| PDO threads | Local remodeling around the thread | Depends heavily on technique |
| PN and exosome-type products | Plausible biological signaling | Limited and uneven so far |
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Midlife skin and the questions a label leaves open
As estrogen falls around menopause, skin tends to become thinner, drier and slower to recover. No booster or thread reverses that change, so the useful question is narrower: which layer the product works in, and what it can realistically improve there.
Exosome solutions in Korea are applied to the skin right after microneedling, such as RF microneedling with Potenza, and absorbed through the tiny channels rather than injected. PN injections such as Rejuran are given in short courses, with sessions usually 7 to 10 days apart. Both fit a visit of a week or two better than a weekend.
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Price against complications on a short trip
Hassell and colleagues surveyed 484 adults in the United States for a 2022 paper in Plastic Surgery. In the Hassell survey, 45.2% would consider plastic surgery, and 67.1% of that group would consider going abroad for it. Price, shorter waits and privacy during recovery were the main draws; complications, missing follow-up and distance from home were the main worries.
The striking result was that how safe people judged surgery abroad did not predict whether they would go. The survey was about surgery, yet the same pull applies to injectables: a lower price can quietly outweigh the plan for what happens if a nodule or infection appears after the flight.
Guide
A short test for any regenerative recommendation
A clear answer to each of these points usually separates a considered plan from a sales script.
- Which product and maker, written on the plan
- Which skin layer it targets and how
- How many sessions, how far apart, and why
- How long the effect usually lasts
- What the next step is if nothing visible changes
- Who places the injections or applies the solution
Evidence
Research behind this page
- Regeneration in Aesthetic Medicine: Mechanisms, Evidence, and Clinical BoundariesJournal of Cosmetic Dermatology · 2026 · doi:10.1111/jocd.70669
A narrative review finding the most consistent remodeling evidence for particulate collagen stimulators, limited regenerative depth for hyaluronic acid boosters, and limited, uneven clinical evidence for polynucleotides and extracellular vesicles.
- Costs Versus Complications: Public Perspectives on International Cosmetic Surgery TourismPlastic Surgery · 2022 · doi:10.1177/22925503221134817
A survey of 484 US adults found price drew people toward cosmetic surgery abroad, while perceived safety did not predict willingness to go.
FAQ
Questions about aesthetic clinics in Korea
Which clinics offer Aesthetic clinics in Korea?
Clinics offering Aesthetic clinics in Korea include Kind Global Clinic (Euljiro-ipgu Station), RE:BERRY Clinic Gangnam (Gangnam Station), Summit Clinic (Gwanghwamun 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.
Is a skin booster the same thing as filler?
No, a hyaluronic acid skin booster is spread thinly through the skin for hydration and texture, while filler is placed as a deposit to add shape or volume. Boosters use small amounts across many points and do not lift a fold. Because they sit so superficially, small bumps can show for a day or two. If your aim is shape, a booster alone will usually disappoint.
Can I fit a course of PN injections into one trip to Gangnam?
Often only partly, because PN sessions are usually spaced 7 to 10 days apart and a course runs to several visits. On a stay of two weeks, two sessions are realistic. Many visitors start the course in Seoul and continue it closer to home if a clinic there uses the same product. Ask the doctor whether one session on its own is worth doing for your goal.
Can I fly home the same day after a skin booster in Gangnam?
Usually yes, because skin boosters and PN injections are commonly cleared for a flight the same day. Small bumps, redness and pinpoint bruises may still show on the plane. Drink water, skip heavy makeup that evening and avoid rubbing the skin. Keep the clinic's written aftercare in your carry-on so you can check it if swelling changes, and note the clinic's contact route before you leave for the airport.
Which side effects are common after PN or booster injections?
The common ones are short-lived: tiny bumps, redness, tenderness and small bruises that fade within days. Less often, a bruise lasts one to two weeks or a firm nodule forms. Infection is rare but possible with any injection, so warmth, rising pain or pus deserve prompt care. Results vary from person to person, and so does how quickly the marks settle.
How should I weigh a package of regenerative sessions?
Judge the package by the plan behind it, not the number of sessions. Ask which product is used at each visit, how far apart the sessions are and what the clinic changes if early sessions show little. Prices on Korean menus are listed before VAT, and 10% VAT is added at payment. A package that cannot be paused or moved to another product deserves a second look.
Does a regenerative treatment replace a lifting device for loose skin?
No, boosters and PN improve the quality of the skin surface, while focused ultrasound or radiofrequency devices heat deeper layers to tighten. They answer different problems and are sometimes combined. If your main concern is sagging along the jaw, ask the doctor whether a lifting device should come first. A clear explanation of that order is a good sign the plan fits you.