How much does tattoo removal cost in Cheongdam, Gangnam, Seoul?
Body ink is listed at ₩90,000 (≈ $65) for each five centimetres treated at a visit, and eyebrow or eyeliner work at ₩150,000 (≈ $105) per visit. Those are the two published lines. Your own figure is that line multiplied by the units your piece is counted as, and then by however many visits your ink turns out to need.
Is a large tattoo charged once, or several times over?
A piece longer than the unit is quoted as a multiple of it, so a sleeve and a small emblem sit on the same published basis and simply arrive at different totals. The count is made with the area uncovered in front of you and written down before any energy is delivered. If a large piece is being worked in parts across visits, each appointment is billed on the part treated that day.
How exactly is the five-centimetre measurement taken on my tattoo?
Your director measures the design at the consultation and shows you the count it produces before it goes on the quote. Length of run, whether the design is one piece or several, and how much of it is being treated at that appointment are the questions that settle it. A figure quoted from a photograph stays provisional until the piece has been seen in person.
Why is a brow tattoo priced differently from ink on my arm?
Because a brow is a region, not a length. Cosmetic tattooing sits in delicate skin beside the eye, is worked with eye protection in place, and is paced with more caution than body ink, so it is listed as a single figure per visit at ₩150,000 (≈ $105) whatever shape the tattooing takes. Eyeliner work is handled on the same line.
Do I have to pay for the whole course before we start?
No. Each visit is settled on the day it happens and nothing is taken in advance as a package. Stopping after two appointments leaves nothing owed and no balance parked with us, which is deliberate: a course whose length is genuinely an estimate should not be sold as a fixed block of sessions.
Do visitors from abroad pay a different rate?
No. The same two published lines apply to residents and to people flying in, with no surcharge attached to a foreign passport. Won is what is settled at the desk; the dollar figure beside it is an orientation for anyone converting, and it drifts with the exchange rate and never with anything the clinic does.
What should I budget for beyond the per-visit line?
The consultation with the skin reading, any review appointment that carries no laser work, dressings if your healing calls for them, and a second design if you want one treated at the same sitting. Each of those is quoted to you separately when the appointment is made. Sunscreen for the treated area belongs in the budget too, since sun is what most often leaves lasting discolouration behind.
Is lightening for a cover-up cheaper than clearing the tattoo?
Usually, and the saving comes from visits, since the published line stays where it is. A replacement design only needs the old one faded enough to sit beneath it, which is a shorter target than clearing. Say so at the first appointment, ideally with the new design available, because a tattooist can tell us how much fading it actually needs.
Which laser platform am I paying for?
The platform and the settings for your session are chosen at the consultation, once your skin type and the ink have been read, and your director explains what is being used before the first pass. The studies listed at the foot of this page describe the systems used in those particular trials, and they are background on the field instead of a description of your own appointment.
Can I get a written quote before I fly to Seoul?
Yes, as a provisional one. Send photographs in daylight with a ruler or a coin beside the tattoo, say roughly when it was done and whether anything has been covered over, and add your travel dates. You get the per-visit figure, a provisional unit count and a likely range of visits in the reply, in English, as soon as possible.
Can I be treated on the day I come in, and when are you open?
Often yes, once the piece has been examined, the count agreed and the figure approved by you. Dear Clinic is open 365 days a year, including Sundays and public holidays, which makes placing a visit at the far end of a six-to-eight-week interval easier around a return trip. Where the skin is tanned or still healing, the appointment is postponed instead.
