Not marketing copy. Licensed physicians at skin clinics in Seoul write under their real names, with their clinic and the date shown, and cite published research where it matters. How long recovery takes, what a treatment can and cannot do, and when it is the wrong choice.
Foods that lose fibre and vitamins in processing and gain sugar, salt and additives make people …
When you eat less, protein tends to drop too and muscle is lost more easily. In clinic we ask wh…
With insulin resistance, insulin stays high, fat is stored more easily and hunger signals come m…
No single diet suits everyone. Research links weight loss to how long people kept to a diet more…
If you eat less but feel tired all the time and your weight stays the same, the problem is somet…
Diet medication curbs appetite while you take it but does not change your eating habits, so appe…
If you keep doing the same workout and the weight that fell for the first two or three months ha…
A drop in Botox effect is not always resistance. With cosmetic Botox, resistance is rare, at abo…
I often hear that skin botox works well but hurts too much. So to ease the pain we tried sodium …
If a particular food such as chocolate or fried chicken suddenly calls to you less than an hour …
If you eat three meals a day and your weight has stayed the same for weeks, I recommend looking …
On a day with dinner plans, I recommend not going hungry all afternoon and having a snack about …
When you are short of sleep, ghrelin, which drives hunger, goes up and leptin, which signals ful…
Intermittent fasting is not recommended for people prone to low blood sugar, people under heavy …
With a wedding or photo shoot a week away there is only a week to recover, so first-time Botox, …
After Potenza there is redness like a light sunburn, along with some warmth. In a study that fol…
An acne injection puts a very small amount of medicine that calms inflammation into a red, hard,…
RF microneedling (Potenza type) used for depressed acne scars tends to hurt more than laser. A s…
Ultherapy hurts because it focuses energy point by point into a deep layer and fires those point…
The resistance people worry about with repeated skin botox is linked to how much and how often i…
Skin botox usually hurts because of how it is delivered rather than the drug itself. To place it…
For people who come in with a hollow lateral cheek, HILO WAVE is now the main choice. It fills n…
At the first visit, acne that has built up over time is all flaring at once, so it is hard to te…
One Liftera session lasts about 1–2 months, and after three sessions the result lasts about 6 mo…
Laser toning mainly works on melasma that sits in small patches. When toning alone is not enough…
The Potenza pumping tip (CP tip) delivers radiofrequency while injecting a product such as Juvel…
In gold PTT, gold particles applied to the skin travel down the pores close to the oil glands, a…
That hyaluronic acid skin boosters raise skin hydration and radiance has been confirmed by pooli…
Some people who say their pores did not change after skin botox turn out to have pores stretched…
A nasolabial consultation starts by sorting the cause, not the product. A fold cast by a hollow …
Cheek sagging is hard to read as stretched skin alone. The deep cheek fat moves downward, the li…
The pain of a fat dissolving injection is not set by the strength of the drug alone. Deoxycholic…
Neck lines track how many times a day you drop your head more closely than they track your age. …
Rather than fixing the duration of a HIFU result at one number, it is more accurate to separate …
It is better not to drink on the day of a treatment. Alcohol opens the vessels and brings a flus…
When skin suddenly flares, the first move is to take things away, not to add them. Keep cleansin…
Looking older after weight loss is not ageing that arrived overnight. The subcutaneous fat suppo…
Acne that keeps appearing on the nose is not a sign that you have managed your skin badly. It co…
The examination comes first and the device is chosen after it. A consultation where what you wil…
Botox works on a square jaw only when the masseter is the reason it looks square. If the bone an…
Skin looking darker after a pigment laser splits into two things. If fine crusting and a tempora…
Neck lines are not one thing. The lines that fold across and the bands that stand out vertically…
Azelaic acid is not the gentlest acne treatment there is, but it is the one you can retreat to w…
Most Korean procedure names are product names, while most English ones are names for a method. T…
Comparing HIFU by shot count or by total joules often fails to match what actually happens. The …
Feeling something after Olidia does not mean it is a nodule. For the first few days it is normal…
Coolsonic and Liftera are not better or worse than one another. They are for different places. B…
The patches that surface in autumn are melasma, sun spots, or post-inflammatory hyperpigmentatio…
Ozempic face happens because the skin cannot keep up with the speed at which the fat disappears.…
The goal on the evening of your treatment is to add no further irritation. Moisturising and sun …
Home-use beauty devices and medical devices are designed for different purposes from the start. …
Many patients ask for jaw Botox hoping for a slimmer V-line. Yet some end up postponing the inje…
When toenail fungus comes back, it is rarely because the fungus grew resistant to the medication…
The question I hear most from patients worried about sagging is "which lifting treatment should …
An ingrown toenail does not heal on its own — the longer it is left, the harder treatment become…
Azelaic acid can help pigmentation. But the reason I reach for it in practice is different: it t…
LDM is a treatment that uses high-density ultrasound to improve conditions inside the skin. Its …
This is a DermaColumn editorial profile, not a column written by the doctor. Dr Yoon Su-jeong do…
Some people notice that their eyes feel heavy, or harder to open, after forehead Botox. This doe…
If you are seeing a doctor about your skin in Seoul for the first time, three things make the vi…
Before a wedding, what matters is not only which procedures you have, but when you start. Recove…
Skin can be fine most of the month and then break out along the jaw before a period. These are o…
If your makeup stopped sitting well, a skin booster is not automatically the answer. The cause s…
Some people arrive having had both Ultherapy and InMode elsewhere, saying the jawline never chan…
In thread lift consultations, pain is often the first concern, ahead of the result. In short, so…
Skin concerns rarely arrive one at a time. The jawline blurs while the texture is rough, and por…
"I had filler in my neck and the line is still visible." "It stays there even when I hold my hea…
These are not competing versions of the same treatment. Ultherapy Prime and Shurink use ultrasou…
"Extraction helps for a few days and then it is back." "Why do the marks and the pitting never g…
"Will sunscreen block my pores when the acne is already bad?" It comes up every summer. Acne-pro…
It comes up more often than you would expect. Washing with hotel body wash once or twice is unli…
People postpone pigment treatment to autumn, then winter, then another summer arrives and nothin…
The first question about Coolphase is always whether it really is not hot. It is not — noticeabl…
RF microneedling does not have to hurt to work. How much it hurts is decided by how briefly the …
The same treatment at the same settings produces very different pain on different days. The peop…
People often come back after lifting elsewhere — the result fell short, or it hurt too much, or …
Excess underarm sweating has a name — hyperhidrosis — and botulinum toxin treats it reasonably s…
Acne is thought of as starting after puberty, but forehead comedones from primary school age are…
You often hear that retaining ligament filler pulls the face up, or strengthens the ligament to …
You will have heard that one tip is for pores and another for acne scars. But if you have both, …
"I had a course of treatment and the melasma got darker." Answering that means going back to wha…
A fair question comes up often: what is the difference between a hyaluronic acid serum, a hyalur…
The question people ask most before a lifting treatment is whether Ultherapy will hollow their c…
A common question is which device is better — InMode, Ultherapy, Thermage. Before the device, th…
Online you will see simple formulas: lose the cheek fat and you look better, clear the deep chee…
"The acne settled but the nose is still bumpy." "Is it enlarged pores or a scar?" Bumps left on …
"I looked into collagen stimulators for a hollow anterior cheek — Juvelook, Olidia, Sculptra — a…
People sometimes wax the day before a laser hair removal appointment to arrive tidy. That can su…
With one or two weeks to go, the question is what to have. The answer is that this is not the po…
"I had lateral cheek filler for hollowing and now it looks more saggy." The cause is usually not…
"I have had laser several times and the acne marks are still there." Most often the cause is not…
DermaColumn collects columns from named dermatology and beauty clinic doctors in Seoul. Each author is identified by full name, clinic and medical society membership. Nothing here is a review, a ranking or a price list.
A Seoul skincare clinic visit is usually planned around a short stay. Recovery time, not the treatment itself, decides what fits your trip. Each column states how long swelling, bruising or tightness typically lasts so you can work backwards from your flight home.
Claims that can be checked are sourced. Where a study is cited, the journal and PubMed record are given. Where something varies from person to person, the column says so instead of giving a single number.
The clinics represented here are across Seoul, including Seocho near Gangnam, Jung-gu and Gangdong. Each column names the clinic and the nearest subway station.
Language support differs by clinic. The clinic page for each doctor lists contact channels so you can ask before booking. DermaColumn does not handle bookings.
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