A field guide to getting your skin done in Seoul.SEOUL · 30 Sep 2026
BEAUTY

Personal colour analysis is now a travel itinerary item

Foreign spending on K-beauty services jumped 46%. Colour diagnosis and K-세신 led it.

Korean card data shows foreign spending across K-beauty services up 46% year on year, with two categories doing most of the pulling: personal colour analysis and 세신, the Korean bathhouse scrub. Interest from Western markets rose 72%.

A personal colour session runs 60–90 minutes. A consultant drapes graded fabric swatches under controlled lighting, narrows you to one of the four seasonal families and then to a sub-tone, and sends you out with a palette card. Studios cluster in Hongdae, Seongsu and Gangnam, and most now run English sessions if you book ahead.

Worth knowing before you book: it is a styling service, not a diagnostic test — two consultants can reach different conclusions, and the value is in what you do with the palette afterwards. Book it before your cosmetics shopping, not after.

Sources — 헤럴드경제 · 인사이트

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