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Toning Rates · Cheongdam, Gangnam

Laser Toning Price in Cheongdam, Gangnam, Seoul

Five published toning lines, two of them sold by the visit and two by the block of ten, plus one custom laser day. Here is each rate, the unit it is counted in, and the things that move a total away from it.

One dual toning visit ₩200,000 (≈ $145) Same rate as Korean patients Open 365 days
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The short answer

What a laser toning rate is quoting you for

A toning rate at Dear Clinic buys one appointment on the toning programme, or a pre-bought block of ten of them. A single dual visit is ₩200,000 (≈ $145); the triple programme is ₩300,000 (≈ $215) a visit. The block figures and the custom one-day laser sit in the table below.

Toning is priced the way it is delivered: gently, and more than once. Each appointment pairs low-fluence 1064 nm passes with the clinic's in-clinic skincare step, and the published line names both halves together because the appointment is sold as one thing. That is why a toning rate looks small beside a single-shot procedure and why the arithmetic people actually care about is the arithmetic of a course.

Nothing on this page decides how many appointments your pigment will be quoted. That belongs to the reading, and the reading happens before any block is offered. What the treatment itself involves is set out on the laser toning programme page, and every figure here also appears on the clinic price list.

New Titanium (Portra Quattro) lifting laser platform on castors with its articulated delivery arm and handpiece at Dear Clinic
One toning appointment, one published figure. How many appointments is a separate question, and it is a clinical one.
Published Rates

Laser toning rates
on the Cheongdam price card

Two programmes, each published twice — once as a single appointment and once as a block of ten — and one custom laser day at ₩400,000 (≈ $285). Five lines in total, and a toning quote at this clinic is built from them and nothing else.
Toning lineUnit it is counted inRate
Dual Laser Toning with in-clinic skincareOne appointment on the dual-wavelength programme₩200,000 (≈ $145)
Dual Laser Toning · block of tenTen appointments on the same programme, bought ahead and paced by your director₩1,500,000 (≈ $1,070)
Triple Laser Toning with in-clinic skincareOne appointment on the triple programme₩300,000 (≈ $215)
Triple Laser Toning · block of tenTen appointments on the triple programme as one purchase₩2,500,000 (≈ $1,785)
Dear Custom One-Day LaserA single laser day assembled around one reading; its contents are agreed with the director beforehand₩400,000 (≈ $285)

Rates are the clinic's published toning figures, quoted in Korean won with a dollar equivalent shown for orientation only; the desk settles in won and the conversion will not match a card statement exactly. The same card applies whichever passport you hold, and no surcharge is added for treating an international patient. Anything that sits outside the toning line itself — aftercare products, comfort measures, work on another part of the menu — is priced and agreed with you at consultation before it happens.

How the Unit Works

Per toning visit, or per block of ten: two ways this programme is counted

By the visit. You book, you come, you are charged once. ₩200,000 (≈ $145) on the dual programme, ₩300,000 (≈ $215) on the triple. Come back six weeks later and you are charged again, at the same figure, with no commitment attached to either appointment. Most first visits at this clinic are bought this way, because a first visit is partly a test of how your pigment answers.

By the block of ten. The block is a single purchase of ten appointments: ₩1,500,000 (≈ $1,070) on the dual programme and ₩2,500,000 (≈ $1,785) on the triple. The published single-visit figures are sitting right beside them, so the per-appointment effect of buying ten is a division you can do yourself instead of a saving we assert. What the block never buys is speed: ten appointments still occupy the intervals your skin is given, and the intervals are the part of this treatment nobody is allowed to compress.

And the one-day line, which is neither. ₩400,000 (≈ $285) buys a custom laser day, which is a different purchase from a place in a toning course. It exists for readings that call for a laser plan assembled once and looked at again, and its composition is fixed with the director before the day is booked, never on this page.

One thing worth saying plainly about the block: it is a purchase made before the evidence is in. We would rather you bought two appointments, watched what happened, and then decided about the other eight. A block bought on the first afternoon is a block bought on an assumption, and assumptions about pigment are exactly what the reading exists to replace.

What Moves the Number

Four things that change a laser toning total

There is one request that does not move the total down, and it is the one we hear most: raising the energy so that fewer appointments are needed. Low-fluence work is defined by its restraint, and pushing it changes the risk of the treatment without reliably changing the count. We do not recommend it, and we do not quote it.

Read the Figure Carefully

What a toning rate does not promise

A published figure is a fact about one appointment. It is not a fact about your face, and three of the most common misreadings are worth naming before anyone pays.

It does not promise a session count. No number of appointments is advertised here, and any count quoted to you by message before a scan is a guess wearing a number. It does not promise a result either: toning manages pigment in small increments, results vary from person to person, and the literature on low-fluence work for melasma is genuinely mixed about how long that management holds.

And it does not promise the absence of risk. Repeated low-fluence passes carry a pigmentary risk of their own — mottled hypopigmentation, a patchy loss of colour reported in the peer-reviewed case literature after treatment given too often or for too long — alongside the more ordinary warmth, flushing and, in skin that inflames easily, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. Those risks are the reason appointments get spaced, and spacing is the reason a block takes months. If that conflicts with your travel dates, the sensible purchase is a single appointment and a written plan to take home.

Dear, Knowhow

How a toning figure at Dear gets agreed

01 — THE FULL ARSENAL

The pigment routes toning is priced against

A toning block is one of several answers to a brown complaint in this building. The vascular laser, needle radiofrequency and per-lesion ablative work are all on the same card, at their own rates, and the consultation is free to move between them because none of them is the line we need you to buy. A reading that ends in a single spot removed in a minute ends there, and the ten-appointment figure never gets mentioned.

02 — DIAGNOSIS FIRST

EVE Muse reads the pigment before a block is priced

EVE Muse 3D imaging with five light sources and AI analysis sorts depth, redness and barrier condition first. The figure follows the finding.

03 — DIRECTOR-PERFORMED

The person setting the fluence is a director

Energy, pass count and interval are clinical decisions, so toning here is director-performed. When the scan says a course will not answer, we say no to the block and prescribe the route that will.

EVE Muse AI analysis screen showing multi-angle facial capture used to read pigment depth before a toning block is quoted
The capture that decides whether you are quoted one appointment, ten, or none at all.
5
Published toning lines
2
Units a line is counted in
10
Appointments in a block
365
Days open each year

Outcomes vary by individual, by pigment pattern and by sun behaviour between appointments.

Medical Team

Five doctors, one standard

Director-performed treatment is a Dear promise — your procedure is planned and performed by the doctors below.

Dr. Jemin Kim — Medical Director and Founder, Dear Clinic
Dr. Jemin Kim
Yonsei University College of Medicine
Medical Director · Founder
Dr. Sanghyun Lee — Director, Dear Clinic
Dr. Sanghyun Lee
Seoul National University College of Medicine
Director
Board-certified · Family Medicine
Dr. Seonhaeng Lee — Director of Aesthetic Medicine, Dear Clinic
Dr. Seonhaeng Lee
Chosun University College of Medicine · Residency, Samsung Medical Center
Director, Aesthetic Medicine
Dr. Daeun Jung — Director, Dear Clinic
Dr. Daeun Jung
Ajou University College of Medicine
Director
Board-certified · Family Medicine
Dr. Woojae Jung — Director of Aesthetic Medicine, Dear Clinic
Dr. Woojae Jung
Seoul National University — B.S. in Medicine
Director, Aesthetic Medicine
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FAQ

Toning rates in Cheongdam, line by line

How much is one laser toning appointment in Cheongdam, Gangnam?
₩200,000 (≈ $145) for one appointment on the dual programme and ₩300,000 (≈ $215) for one on the triple. Both figures buy a single visit with no commitment to any further ones, which is how most people start here while the response is still unknown.
What do the ten-appointment toning blocks cost?
₩1,500,000 (≈ $1,070) for ten dual appointments and ₩2,500,000 (≈ $1,785) for ten on the triple programme. Both are one purchase covering ten separate visits, spread across the intervals your director sets after reading the skin.
Is a block cheaper per visit than paying each time?
Divide the block figure by ten and compare it with the single-visit figure above; both numbers are published, so the comparison is arithmetic you can check rather than a claim we make. The clinical question matters more: a block is only a good purchase when the diagnosis supports ten appointments in the first place.
Why is triple toning priced above dual toning?
Because the appointment is built differently, with a further laser step layered into the same visit for skin that reads more complex on the scan. It is a clinical selection made at diagnosis, so being quoted the dual line at ₩200,000 (≈ $145) is simply what a straightforward reading produces.
What is the Dear Custom One-Day Laser at ₩400,000 (≈ $285)?
A single laser day built around one reading, published as one figure. What goes into it is agreed with the director before the day and is never fixed on a web page, which is why it is described by its unit here and settled in the consultation room.
How many toning appointments will I be quoted for?
We do not publish a number and will not send you one by message before a scan. Pigment depth, how long it has been there, your skin's reaction to heat and your sun exposure between visits all move the count, and the first two or three appointments say more about it than any estimate made in advance.
Do international patients pay a different toning rate?
No. One published card applies to everyone and nothing is added for a foreign passport. Settlement is in Korean won at the desk; the dollar figure beside each rate tracks an exchange rate and is there for planning only.
What happens to the appointments left in a block if we stop early?
Stopping early is a normal outcome here, not a failure of the purchase: if the pigment is not answering by the third visit, we say so. The remaining appointments and how they are handled are put to you in writing at that review and confirmed with you directly, so nothing gets quietly run down.
Is the skincare step charged separately from the laser?
The dual and triple lines are published as one figure for the appointment as the clinic writes it, with the laser passes and the in-clinic skincare step named together on the same line of the card. Anything you would like beyond that line is quoted at consultation before you agree to it.
Can I pay per visit instead of committing to a block?
Yes, and for a first course of treatment it is often what we suggest. The single-visit lines exist so that the response can be watched before ten appointments are bought, and for visitors whose dates are short a single appointment plus a written home plan is usually the sensible spend.
Could a toning quote turn into a quote for something else?
Often, yes. If the scan reads the unevenness as vascular redness, as raised lesions or as surface texture, a toning block is the wrong purchase and we say no to it, then quote the matching route from its own line of the card. That conversation happens before payment, not after it.
Can I be quoted and treated on the same day?
Usually, because the clinic is open 365 days a year and the scan, the consultation and a first appointment can sit inside one visit. What a same-day start cannot do is shorten the interval before the next one, whatever a return flight says.
Consultation

Ask what your pigment would be quoted

Describe the marks and send your dates; we reply in English as soon as possible.

Scientific Evidence

Why the toning block is sold in ten appointments and not thirty

The largest figure on this page is a block of ten, so the published work on repeated low-fluence 1064 nm treatment is the literature a buyer has most reason to see. Three references are listed below: a long-term study of low-fluence Q-switched Nd:YAG for melasma, a comparison of the same laser with intense pulsed light, and a report on melanin and melanocyte changes in mottled hypopigmentation after such treatment.

They are given so that the limits of a course can be read at source. None of them prices anything, and none of them says what one face will do.

  1. Gokalp H et al. Long-term results in low-fluence 1064-nm Q-Switched Nd:YAG laser for melasma: Is it effective? Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology. 2016. doi:10.1111/jocd.12253
  2. Jang YH et al. Changes in Melanin and Melanocytes in Mottled Hypopigmentation after Low-Fluence 1,064-nm Q-Switched Nd:YAG Laser Treatment for Melasma. Annals of Dermatology. 2015. doi:10.5021/ad.2015.27.3.340
  3. Vachiramon V et al. Low-fluence Q-switched Nd: YAG 1064-nm laser and intense pulsed light for the treatment of melasma. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. 2014. doi:10.1111/jdv.12854
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