How much does skin botox cost in Korea?

The treatment plane explains the flat full-face quote. Skin botox is injected intradermally — shallow, diluted, and spread across the whole face in a grid of micro-droplets — so there is no meaningful way to carve it into forehead-versus-eyes zones the way wrinkle menus do. The clinic's work scales with your whole face regardless, and the ₩89,000–106,000 band reflects that single-session, single-unit structure.

Within the band, the levers are familiar: the toxin brand being diluted, how densely the clinic grids the injections, and the district the clinic sits in. Some practices also pair the session with a soothing or regeneration step; that changes the ticket, so when a quote lands above the published band, ask what has been bundled in before assuming the base rate is different.

Cadence matters more here than with muscle Botox. Because intradermal doses are small and shallow, the tightening and pore-refining effect typically softens after roughly two to three months — a shorter arc than jaw or forehead work. Patients who like the finish usually maintain it as a recurring session, so your honest annual figure is the per-session price times the rhythm you settle into, not the single-visit number.

Price-comparing the two lines in the table misses what each buys. Wrinkle Botox at ₩19,000–60,000 per area relaxes a specific muscle to soften expression lines; skin botox at ₩89,000–106,000 treats the canvas itself — pore visibility, fine crepey texture, oiliness, the things a muscle injection never touches. One is targeted, one is diffuse, and the units differ because the goals do.

They are also combined more often than chosen between. A common Korean plan treats one or two expression areas and layers a full-face skin botox session on the same visit, since the injection appointments stack cleanly. If that combination interests you, have the clinic quote both lines separately on the written estimate so you can see exactly what each component costs before agreeing to the pair.

Every price above is VAT-inclusive: Korea's 10% value-added tax is already built into the standard self-pay rate.

The foreign-patient VAT refund on cosmetic and aesthetic procedures (Special Tax Treatment Control Act, Articles 107-3 and 107-4) expired on 31 December 2025 and was not extended for 2026. As of 2026 there is nothing to reclaim afterward on a procedure like this — the price you see is your effective, out-of-pocket cost. Be cautious of older listings that still promise a clinic VAT refund for cosmetic treatment.