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What you're considering and when you're coming. No account, no card. One form.
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Seoul residents use the same clinics visitors do. They just know which doctor's hours to book, which treatments belong where, and which part of the upsell to decline.
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About
Everyone can find a clinic. Almost no visitor can find the person who already knows which doctor is good at what, and who the clinic will treat you better for knowing. Your unni is a long-term patient of the clinic she takes you to. She plans what you should actually get, messages the clinic before you arrive, and checks on you after you fly home.
705,044
Foreign dermatology patients treated in Korea, 2024: 56.6% of all foreign patients that year.
Source: KHIDI, 2024 statistics
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Prices the same treatment can carry at the same clinic: the local price and the visitor quote. Nothing requires either to be published.
Structural: non-covered (비급여) treatments are priced freely by each clinic
0%
Of your unni's pay depends on you booking. She is paid a flat hourly rate by us, either way.
Contractual: no per-booking component
Getting the appointment a local would get takes three steps and no account.
How it worksGet a plan and a quote
The treatment at the local price, our fee named separately. Decide before anything is booked.
Go, with your unni behind you
She briefs you, messages the clinic in advance, and checks in on day 3 and day 14.
Request an unni↗ | What actually differs | Walking in yourself | With your unni |
|---|---|---|
| Who performs the treatment | Found out on the day | Named in advanceBooked into that doctor's hours |
| What you are quoted | Visitor menuFixed packages built for one trip | The local priceSingle sessions, written quote |
| Consultation | Menu first | Skin firstYou arrive with a plan and a price ceiling |
| The upsell | Decided alone, on the spot | Briefed before you goWhat to decline, and how to say it |
| Does the clinic know you | NoOne-time visitor, no one following up | YesYour unni messaged them before you arrived |
| After you fly home | Nothing | Day 3 and day 14From the person who sent you |
This table describes how a booking differs, not how any clinic performs. No clinic is named here and none is being rated. Every row is a term we arrange on your behalf, not an outcome we predict. Methodology: derived from our own booking terms, not from patient reports. Last updated: 30 July 2026.
Locals go to the big clinics too. They just know which chair to sit in.
High-volume clinics are not the thing to avoid. Volume buys repetition and lowers price, which is exactly why Seoul residents use them. The risk was never the volume. It is that a first-time visitor cannot tell a busy clinic from a careless one, and does not know the two can be the same building on different days.
Book the hours, not the clinic
Senior doctors keep specific hours. Locals book into those; visitors book the next opening.
Split the treatments
One clinic for lasers, another for injectables. The same person uses both, on purpose.
Take the session, not the package
Packages are built for people who will not come back. Locals buy single sessions on a schedule.
Ask who holds the handpiece
The person who consults is not always the person who treats. Asking changes how the appointment goes. Your unni asks before you arrive.
The treatment costs what a Korean patient pays. Our fee is named separately on your quote, before you decide anything.
What it costs Treatment cost
The local price
What a Korean patient pays at that clinic. We do not mark it up.
Our fee
Named on your quote
You see it before you decide. This is what we live on.
Anything from the clinic
Disclosed and deducted
Where we hold a contract with a clinic, we say so on your quote and deduct it from your invoice.