#K-beauty

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• 🇰🇷 Korea·August 8, 2026·10 min readWhat to Buy at Olive Young, and Which StoreForeign customers went from 2% of offline sales in 2022 to 28% in 2025. Jeju is up 199.5x, Busan 59.1x — the growth is fastest outside Seoul.
• 🇰🇷 Korea·August 8, 2026·8 min readKorean Salon Prices — 19,558 Won, or 60,000 WonKorea Consumer Agency data: 19,558 won average, 25,000 in Incheon, 15,200 in North Jeolla. Inside one salon the price multiplies by who holds the scissors.
• 🇰🇷 Korea·August 8, 2026·10 min readHow to Check If Korean Cosmetics Are Genuine — Five Lines on the Label Answer Instead of the SellerBarcode 880 does not mean made in Korea. What Korea's Cosmetics Act requires on a package, what a Vietnamese sub-label adds, and the four official routes — with the checks you can run holding the bottle.
• 🇰🇷 Korea·August 8, 2026·10 min readSeoul Skin Clinics Now Take 63% of MyeongdongCreatrip data: dermatology took 63% of Myeongdong spending in Q1 2026; hair salons led with 43% in 2025. Plastic surgery fell from 46.2% to 21.3%.
• 🇰🇷 Korea·August 8, 2026·9 min readDaiso Korea Beauty — What to Buy Under 5,000 WonBeauty brands at Daiso went from 7 in 2022 to over 160 in February 2026, products from 120 to 1,700 — all 5,000 won or less. What to check before buying.
• 🇰🇷 Korea·August 8, 2026·9 min readKorea's Colour Contact Lens Boom: What to CheckHapa Kristin's operator posted 58.8 billion won and a first profit after three losing years — Japan up 45%, the US up 81%. How stage eyes became a market.