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The Step Before Any Treatment Name

Skin Analysis in Cheongdam, Seoul the EVE Muse capture that opens every plan

Every plan written at Dear Clinic starts with an EVE Muse AI Skin Analysis: three-dimensional imaging under five light sources with AI analysis, captured before a treatment is named and kept as the baseline your review is measured against. This page explains what the capture is for, how a director uses it, and the decisions it deliberately does not make.

Imaging first, treatment name second EVE Muse 3D and AI analysis Kept as your review baseline
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Direct Answer

What an EVE Muse skin analysis is and why it runs first

A photographic and computational record of your face: three-dimensional capture under five light sources, processed by AI analysis, stored under your name. It runs before a treatment is chosen so the shortlist that follows can be argued with, and so a later visit has something objective to compare against.

Aesthetic medicine has an ordering problem. A patient arrives with a treatment already in mind, picked up from a video or a friend, and the appointment becomes a negotiation about that treatment instead of an examination of the face in front of everyone. Imaging first inverts the order. The capture exists before a name does, which means the conversation starts from something both people can look at.

The second use is slower and, over a year, more valuable. Aesthetic change is gradual and memory is unreliable; nobody can recall accurately how their own jawline looked in March. A stored capture removes that argument from the room. When you return for review, the comparison is between two sets of images taken on the same equipment under the same lighting conditions.

What the analysis is not is a verdict. Software produces a reading; a licensed doctor decides what, if anything, should be done about it. Those two things are separated deliberately here, and the section below on limits explains where the line falls.

A client leans into the EVE 3D skin analysis unit while the scan is reviewed on a tablet
An EVE Muse 3D scan on the tablet. Nothing is injected and nothing is cut; the face is photographed.
The Capture Itself

What the EVE Muse analysis records, stated without embroidery

Three properties of the capture are worth understanding, because each one changes what the images are good for afterwards.

01
Three dimensions

Volume and contour are recorded, so a flat photograph is not the record

A standard phone photograph flattens a face and its lighting is never the same twice. Three-dimensional capture holds shape, which is the property that matters when the discussion turns to contour, support and the way light falls across a cheek. Shape is also the property that changes most slowly, and therefore the one most worth storing.

02
Five light sources

The same face is imaged under several illuminations, because light decides visibility

Features that vanish under one kind of light are obvious under another, which is why a single photograph is a weak clinical document. Capturing the same face under five light sources produces a set of images in which different properties of the skin surface and its depth become separable. Which properties your own set brings forward is read with you on screen; it is specific to your face and is not predicted in advance by this page.

03
AI analysis

Software organises the images so a person can interrogate them quickly

The AI layer sorts and presents what the cameras collected. That is its job description and the limit of its authority. It shortens the time a director spends locating things and lengthens the time spent discussing them with you. No percentage score on a screen is a prescription, and any figure the system displays is a measurement of an image and not a promise about an outcome.

What it is not. An EVE Muse capture is not a biopsy, not a blood test and not a diagnosis of skin disease. Lesions that need a medical opinion are examined in person by the doctor, and anything outside the scope of aesthetic practice here is referred on.
Nothing invasive happens. There is no needle, no injected material and no energy delivered into the skin during the capture. Whether the capture itself carries a charge is confirmed when you book, along with the consultation arrangements for your date.
From Images To A Plan

How a director turns the skin analysis into a shortlist of lines

Depth comes before product

The first question asked of the images is anatomical: at what depth does the thing you dislike actually live. Surface pigment, dermal quality and structural support behave differently and answer to different tools, and a shortlist built without settling depth is a shortlist of guesses. Focused ultrasound reaches the deep plane with visualisation to 8 mm at Ultherapy Prime; a polynucleotide booster works in the dermis; a low-fluence toning course works at the level of pigment. Those are three separate conversations, and the images decide which one you are having.

The second question is sequence. Where two concerns are present, one route often has to precede the other for the second to be judged fairly, and your director will say which comes first and why. Where a single line answers most of what you came in about, the plan stays at one line.

Your history overrules the images

A capture knows nothing about your medication, your pregnancy status, how readily you bruise, whether you keloid or what was injected into your face two years ago. All of that is taken at consultation and all of it can override a shortlist the images suggested. This is the ordinary reason a plan ends up shorter than the imaging alone would imply.

It is also why a written plan is produced at the end of the consultation and not generated by the analysis unit. The plan names the treatment, the area and the figure for each line taken from the published card, and you agree to it before anything is prepared.

Skin analysis room at Dear Clinic with a Mark-Vu facial imaging camera used at the first consultation
The analysis room. The capture is taken here, and the consultation happens afterwards with the images on screen.

Risks are named at this point, before anything is agreed

Every line on a shortlist carries something. Injected work can leave bruising and swelling at entry points. Energy treatment commonly leaves redness and a tight feeling for a short period, and carries a burn risk that is managed by settings and by the operator's hand. Skin that pigments readily can darken after inflammation. Repeated low-fluence toning has a documented downside in the published literature, including mottled hypopigmentation reported after courses for melasma, which is exactly why a course is reviewed as it runs instead of being sold in full on day one.

Any comfort measures for a given route are confirmed at the consultation. Individual results vary, and no capture changes that.

The Long Game

Why the first capture is kept as the baseline for every review

The value of an analysis compounds. One capture is a snapshot; two captures taken months apart on the same equipment are evidence, and evidence is what lets you decide whether a plan earned its money or should be stopped.

Three things make a comparison honest, and all three are equipment problems before they are clinical ones. The same imaging unit, the same lighting, the same angles. Selfies satisfy none of them, which is why before-and-after impressions formed at home are so often wrong in both directions: people who improved think nothing happened, and people whose change came from a haircut and better sleep are certain the treatment worked.

Reviewing against a stored baseline also changes what a review is for. It stops being a sales appointment and becomes an arithmetic one. If the second capture shows little movement on the concern you were treating, the sensible conclusions are to change the route, change the interval or stop, and your director will say which of the three applies. That conversation is much harder to have when the only record is memory.

For visitors from abroad the baseline does a fourth job. You may be treated in Seoul and reviewed from home over written correspondence; a capture taken before you flew gives that correspondence a fixed reference point. What imaging cannot replace is an examination in person, which is the argument for a short review while you are still in the country.

What Follows The Reading

Three lines a first plan is often built from, with their listed rates

These are not a package and nobody receives all three by default. They appear here because each answers a different depth, which is the distinction the capture exists to settle.

LineDepth it answers toHow it is plannedUnitListed rate
Dual laser toningPigment at the surface and upper layersLow-fluence passes repeated over a course, reviewed as it runs1 session₩200,000 (≈ $145)
Rejuran HealerDermal qualityA polydeoxyribonucleotide booster planned as a series and judged over weeks2 cc₩300,000 (≈ $215)
Ultherapy PrimeDeep structural plane, with visualisation to 8 mmFocused ultrasound, priced in blocks of shots against a mapped area100 shots₩400,000 (≈ $285)

Read the unit column before the rate column. A session, a cubic centimetre and a block of shots are three different things to buy, and a headline number compared across different units tells you nothing. Korean won is what you pay and the USD figure beside it is an approximate reference that moves with the exchange rate. Residents and international patients are quoted from the same list with no foreign-patient surcharge. Every rate held on this site sits on the transparent price list.

Dear 10 Selection, Dear Clinic October 2026 event (prices in Korean won, VAT excluded, identical for locals and international visitors): Ultherapy Prime 400 shots ₩1,320,000 · Ultherapy Prime 500 shots ₩1,650,000 · Ultherapy Prime 600 shots ₩1,980,000 · Thermage FLX 600 shots ₩1,900,000 · XERF 600 shots ₩1,600,000 · Dear Total Face Care: Ultherapy Prime 500 + Eye Thermage 450 + PN eye booster 1cc ₩3,700,000 · Thermage FLX 600 + PN booster HB 4cc + CaHA collagen booster 1 vial ₩3,400,000 · Ultherapy Prime 400 + PN healer 4cc (LDM and numbing included) ₩1,900,000 · Eye Thermage 450 + PDLLA eye booster 2cc ₩2,100,000
Dear 10 Selection · October lifting event — tap to book
 Dear 10 Selection, Dear Clinic October 2026 event (prices in Korean won, VAT excluded): Skin Revital Care: Potenza pumping + PDLLA skin booster 5cc ₩500,000 · PN booster HB 4cc ₩750,000 · PN healer 4cc + PN eye booster 2cc (LDM and numbing included) ₩850,000 · HA skin-quality booster 2cc ₩700,000 · RE2O 1 session ₩700,000 · Defined Volume Care: Eye Light 1cc + PN eye booster 1cc ₩1,050,000 · Chin filler 1cc + jawline filler 1cc ₩850,000 · PLLA collagen stimulator 2 vials ₩1,500,000 · Directors' Picks (Dr. Woojae Jung · Dr. Daeun Jung): Density Alpha 300 shots + PN booster HB 2cc (both cheeks) ₩1,100,000 · Potenza pumping + PDLLA skin booster 5cc, 3 sessions ₩1,150,000 · PN booster HB 4cc with PDLLA skin booster 2cc (both cheeks) ₩790,000 · Onda 80 kJ + Titanium 60 kJ ₩990,000
Dear 10 Selection · October skin revital & volume — tap to book
Where The Line Falls

What a skin analysis does not decide

It does not prescribe. Software reads images. A licensed doctor decides whether a treatment is appropriate for you, and that decision is made in the room with your medical history in front of them.
It does not set your budget. Figures come from one published card, never from the reading. A capture showing several findings is not an instruction to treat all of them, and a plan built one line at a time is a legitimate plan.
It does not overrule a no. Pregnancy and breastfeeding, active infection or inflammation in the area, photosensitising medication and recent conflicting work all end a consultation with a written plan and nothing performed. Where the imaging points at a treatment other than the one you asked for, we do not recommend the one you asked for, and we say so before you have paid for anything.
It does not promise an outcome. Nothing in a capture forecasts how your skin will respond. What it does is make the argument checkable later, which is a smaller claim and a truer one.
Dear, Knowhow

Why the analysis carries weight in this particular building

01 — THE FULL ARSENAL

A reading is only useful where the answer it points to is actually held

Imaging that identifies a deep structural issue is worthless in a clinic that owns one machine, because the reading has nowhere to go. Lifting, laser and pigment work, toxin, filler, boosters and body treatment are all held on two floors here and all published on one card. The practical consequence is that a capture is allowed to move the plan into a category you had never heard of.

02 — DIAGNOSIS FIRST

EVE Muse imaging is the first step of a visit, not an upsell placed after one

Three-dimensional capture under five light sources with AI analysis happens before a treatment is named and before a figure is quoted. The order is the whole point of the step. Where a clinic scans after the sale, the images can only confirm; where it scans before, the images are permitted to contradict.

03 — DIRECTOR-PERFORMED

The doctor who reads your images is the one holding the handpiece

Treatment here is director-performed, so the reading, the plan and the hand are the same person. Nothing is lost in a handover.

In the clinic

Where the capture and the consultation happen

EveLab Insight skin analysis device closed, side profile
The unit closed, between appointments
VIP single treatment room with a blue velvet armchair and gold side table at Dear Clinic Cheongdam
A single treatment room, for the plan that follows a reading
Laser treatment room at Dear Clinic Cheongdam with several laser platforms and a powered treatment chair
The laser room, one of the destinations a reading can point to
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

Skin analysis in Cheongdam, question by question

What is a skin analysis at a Korean clinic?
At Dear Clinic it is an EVE Muse AI Skin Analysis: your face captured in three dimensions under five light sources, with AI analysis organising the result for the doctor. It happens before a treatment is chosen, the images are reviewed with you on screen, and the capture is stored so a later visit has something to compare against.
Is skin analysis free in Cheongdam?
Clinics differ and this page will not speak for the district. At Dear Clinic, whether the capture carries a charge is confirmed when you book, together with the arrangements for the consultation on your date. Treatment rates themselves are published on one card that applies to residents and international patients alike.
Does the EVE Muse capture involve needles, lasers or anything touching my face?
No. The unit photographs you. Nothing is injected, no energy is delivered into the skin and no incision is made, which is why the analysis is the one part of a first appointment that carries no recovery consideration at all. Discomfort is not a factor and no comfort measures are required for the capture itself.
Can I book a skin analysis without committing to any treatment?
Yes, and some consultations end exactly that way: images taken, a written plan on your record, nothing performed. That is a normal outcome here. It is also a sensible first move if you are early in a trip and want the reading before deciding how to spend the rest of the week.
Will the analysis tell me which treatment I need?
It narrows the question and does not answer it. The images settle depth, which rules routes in and out; your medical history, medication, previous injectable work and how your skin heals then decide what is appropriate. The prescription is made by a licensed doctor in the room, never by the software.
Should I arrive without make-up for the capture.
Plan for the images to be taken on clean skin, since make-up sits between the cameras and the surface being recorded. If you arrive wearing it, say so at reception and it is dealt with before the capture. Mention any strong actives or a recent tan too, because both change what can safely be done on the day.
Do I get to see the EVE Muse images, and can I keep a copy.
The images go on screen and are reviewed with you during the consultation; that discussion is the point of taking them. Ask at the desk about receiving a copy, as handling of patient imaging is governed by the clinic's medical records policy and is confirmed at your visit.
Is an analysis worth doing if I already know what I want?
It is most useful in exactly that case. Arriving with a fixed treatment in mind is the commonest way a plan goes wrong, because the choice was made without the reading that should have informed it. If the images agree with you, you lose nothing. If they disagree, you have avoided paying for the wrong depth.
What happens if the reading contradicts the treatment I came in asking for?
You hear that first, before any figure is discussed. Where the imaging points at a different depth, the director explains which route fits and why, and if nothing held here is the right treatment for your concern, you are told that too and no procedure is booked. Declining is an ordinary end to a consultation and changes nothing about how you are treated later.
Does a skin analysis diagnose skin disease or check moles?
No. The capture supports aesthetic planning. Lesions, rashes, changing moles and anything that needs a medical opinion are examined in person by the doctor, and cases outside the scope of aesthetic practice here are referred rather than treated. Raise anything of that kind at the start of the consultation.
Is the analysis repeated when I come back for review?
That is the design. A review capture on the same unit under the same lighting is what makes a comparison mean something, and the conclusion can be to continue, to change the route, to lengthen the interval or to stop. Individual results vary, and a second set of images is the least dramatic way to find out which applies to you.
Is the consultation around the analysis held in English, and are weekends available?
Consultations are held in English and Spanish-language support is available, so the images are explained in a language you actually reason in. The clinic runs 365 days a year, weekdays 10 to 19 and weekends and holidays 10 to 16, which is why an analysis often lands on the one free day of a short trip.
Consultation

Start with the images, then decide

Send two daylight photographs and a sentence about what bothers you, and a written English reply will tell you whether a capture and consultation is the right first appointment.

Scientific Evidence

Published work behind the routes a reading points to

No published trial evaluates an imaging unit as a route to better outcomes, and this page claims none. The literature below concerns the treatments a reading commonly points towards: what microfocused ultrasound does at the deep plane, including histological work in Asian skin; what repeated low-fluence 1064 nm treatment can cost in pigment terms; and how polynucleotide material behaves by delivery method.

Each entry resolves to a DOI in an indexed journal. Whether any of it applies to your face is a clinical judgement made in person, after your capture.

  1. Khan U et al. A Systematic Review of the Clinical Efficacy of Micro-Focused Ultrasound Treatment for Skin Rejuvenation and Tightening. Cureus. 2021. doi:10.7759/cureus.20163
  2. Suh D et al. Intense Focused Ultrasound Tightening in Asian Skin: Clinical and Pathologic Results. Dermatologic Surgery. 2011. doi:10.1111/j.1524-4725.2011.02094.x
  3. 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
  4. Hong J et al. Therapeutic Performance of Needle Injection Versus Needle-Free Jet Injector System for Polynucleotide Filler in Skin Rejuvenation. Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology. 2024. doi:10.1111/jocd.16595

References are provided for information — outcomes vary by individual and are assessed at your diagnosis.

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