Dear Cut is Dear Clinic's signature body lipolysis injection: small injections into the fat layer of one mapped zone — arm and underarm, abdomen, flanks or thigh line — to soften the outline your clothing sits on. What carries the Dear name is the design around it: the line is decided first, the line is broken into 40 cc zones, and each zone is dosed at the smallest unit that moves it.
Most menus name the pocket. We start a step earlier, at the silhouette you actually described in the consultation room — a sleeveless dress, a shoulder line that reads square in photographs, a waist that a tailored jacket has to close over. From that sentence the director works backwards to the zones that carry it, and only then decides which of them answer to a needle at all.
A line is rarely one thing. The upper arm that bothers you may be part soft tissue and part slackness in the skin above the elbow, and no volume of injection will ever improve the second half of that description. Reading the two apart before the first session is what stops a course from being extended in the hope that it eventually works.
One boundary belongs here. Dear Cut is contour work on a defined zone and has no effect on your weight, and nobody at this clinic will present it otherwise. Outcomes differ between individuals, and the zone we drew is where the result is judged — on the border, in the mirror, at review.
Volume, laxity or proportion — the reading decides which of the three you are actually asking about.
When what you are describing is a wish to be smaller overall, Dear Cut is not the right tool for it, and you will hear that in the consultation room before a zone is drawn. The same applies when the reading puts the outline down to slackness or to muscle: those are referred to the treatment that answers them. Results vary between individuals. The judgement is made before any money changes hands.
Unretouched cases treated at Dear Clinic, shown with consent.
All photos are unretouched cases of the same person under the same conditions, treated at Dear Clinic. Each photo shows only the treatment it is labelled with. Individual results may vary.
These four steps run in a fixed order. Reversing any two of them is the usual reason a course runs longer than it needed to.
The EVE Muse 3D capture and five-light-source AI analysis are taken with you standing, then read alongside the outfit or occasion you came in describing. What comes out is a line brief in one sentence. Sometimes the finding at that step is that no injection serves the line you described.
The brief is translated into borders drawn on your skin in the mirror. Each border is one 40 cc zone, which is also one priced unit, so what you agree to and what you are charged for are the same drawing. Nothing outside a border is treated.
Each zone starts at the smallest dose the director judges capable of moving that outline, spread across the border instead of concentrated. A zone that has been over-dosed cannot be unwound, so the first pass is deliberately conservative and any addition is decided at review.
Where part of the line comes from laxity or from proportion instead of volume, that part is handed to a different tool in the same plan — and written down as such, so you can see which problem each appointment is answering. In upper-body LINE care, softening arm and underarm volume is the Dear Cut part; slackness along the back of the arm goes to Onda body contouring, and a square shoulder is a shoulder filler question and nothing else.
Change accumulates over the weeks between visits, so each zone is re-read before it is repeated instead of topped up on a schedule. When a zone reaches the line you asked for, that zone stops even if another one continues.
| Dear Cut | Onda body contouring | Body botulinum toxin | Shoulder filler | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The line comes from | Soft-tissue volume in a defined zone | Firmness and slackness across a broad area | A well-developed muscle underneath | Proportion — a square shoulder line |
| How it works | Small injections into the fat layer of a drawn 40 cc zone | Microwave energy delivered through the skin, nothing placed under it | Injection into the muscle | Volume placed to change how the upper body reads |
| Where it is used | Arm & underarm · abdomen · flanks · thigh line | Back of the arm and other broad areas | Calf · shoulder | Shoulder |
| Learn more | This page | Onda body | Body botox | Shoulder filler |
All four are in the same building, and which one you are offered is settled by what the EVE reading shows about volume, laxity and proportion. Written as one plan, they run in a sensible order instead of competing for the same weeks — which is why the Dear Wedding Program maps line work against its countdown: base skin and line work from about sixty days out, texture and proportion near forty-five, firmness through the thirty-day window, and the last fortnight held for settling and final dress fit.
Placement across a border is the entire technique here, and it is director-performed. The person adjusting depth mid-session is the one who marked you standing, and the same director reads the zone again at review.
One minute inside the clinic in Cheongdam — the 3D scan, the doctor's plan, the treatment rooms.
| Method | Lipolysis injection into the fat layer of one mapped zone |
|---|---|
| Unit | One 40 cc zone per session — also one priced unit |
| Zones | Arm & underarm · abdomen · flanks · thigh line |
| Diagnosis | EVE Muse 3D capture and five-light-source AI analysis, taken standing |
| On the day | Ordinary plans the same day; you leave dressed and unbandaged |
| First week | Swelling, firmness, tenderness, possible bruising |
| Weight | No effect — contour work on a defined zone |
Dear Cut is published at ₩80,000 (≈ $55) for one 40 cc zone per session at Dear Clinic in Cheongdam. Two zones in one visit are simply two units. The signature name does not carry a signature surcharge — the design, the zone map and the EVE reading are part of the consultation, and the published rate is the same for residents and international visitors.
One published list, no visitor mark-up. A line is quoted as zones multiplied by a session estimate, and that whole-line figure is said out loud before you book the first appointment. Published rates as of September 2026; KRW is what you pay and USD is shown for reference. Every rate at the clinic is on the full price list, and Sunday and holiday opening covers how repeat zones are scheduled.
Dear Cut carries our name and is still not the default answer to a body enquiry. A plan that turns out to need fewer zones finishes cheaper, and the alternatives that were considered are listed on the same sheet.
Injectable fat reduction carries a published adverse-event literature. The list below is drawn from it, and the papers themselves are cited further down this page.
Injectable fat reduction has been studied most rigorously under the chin. That trial literature is why a Dear Cut plan is written as a course with review points between visits. Beside the trials sits a systematic review of serious adverse events, listed here because the caution list above is built from it. No paper listed here reports on the specific preparation used in a Dear Cut zone; what your own zone is likely to achieve is assessed at your diagnosis.
Phase 3 randomised, placebo-controlled trial of an injectable for fat under the chin.
Pooled analysis of two European phase 3 studies of injectable submental fat reduction.
Systematic review of serious adverse events after injectable fat reduction, with management recommendations.
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