Choosing a Gangnam skincare salon by closing time and first-visit price

If you want a price list and a first treatment on the way home from work, this is the one. Five minutes from exit 5 of Eonju Station, on the third floor of Daseul Building. Pores and brightening lead the menu, and the director blends Coreana products to your skin type.

There are 256 Karrot reviews. Only two of the five places have more than ten reviews, and this is one of them. The reviews cycle through youthful skin, the skin barrier and puffiness.

Honestly, the closing time differs by page. Karrot says 22:00, Waug says 23:00. Ask on the phone what the last slot is that day.

One review says contouring and puffiness are best here.

If you finish work at Gangnam Station, this is the closest. Three minutes from exit 3, on the 12th floor of Uin Building, La Belle Aesthetic takes clients until 22:00 on weekdays. Every treatment room is private or a couple room, so you never share with a stranger.

Waug lists prices from ₩49,000. They use Thalgo and Eclado products, the director has 20 years and the therapists 10 or more. Wedding and couple care are separate menu items, so this looks like a place people find while planning a wedding.

Saturday is 11:00 to 18:00. If weekdays do not work, early Saturday is the opening.

One review says it falls a little short as bridal prep, so for a wedding the order is to settle the number of sessions at the consultation.

Three minutes from exit 3 of Yeoksam Station, on the 10th floor of Bubong Building, TGV Beauty is women only. It is the only one of the five that says so. Rooms are split into single, double and group, and there is a separate powder room for afterwards.

Prices start at ₩49,000. They use four brands — Thalgo, Guinot, Valmont and Neoderma — and the director has 13+ years and a Level 1 cosmetics specialist certification. If two or three friends are going together, the group room is worth asking about.

Honestly the window is narrow. It opens at 13:30 and closes at 19:30, and it also closes on the first Saturday and third Monday. To me it read as a salon for a day you work from home. Stopping by after work is a stretch.

If you want device-based treatment from the first session, this is Esroi Aesthetic. A fifth-floor salon on Gangnam-daero in Sinsa-dong, with therapy from ₩150,000. That is one digit longer than the other three that publish prices.

The website introduces it as a medical aesthetic with focused ultrasound, microcurrent therapy and a skin analysis system. No reason for the price gap is written down. That equipment line-up looks like the reason. The first line of the website is that skin is a mirror of the life you have lived.

Karrot says more than half of its clients have been coming five years or longer. There are only three reviews, but two of them say they get home care products every visit. Open until 22:00, closed on the first of every month.

The 50% first-visit discount runs until 31 December this year. Aesthetic Gonggan, on B1 of Glass Tower in Yeoksam-dong, is appointment only and runs single and couple rooms alone. Custom care for problem skin leads the menu. The catch is that there is no list price, so you do not yet know what half of it comes to.

Karrot has 10 reviews and a 4.6. People say they were in and out quickly and that it is good value. There is a break from 16:00 to 17:00, so bookings land before or after it.

Honestly, there is no price list anywhere. Where the 50% comes off is a question for the booking call. On Sundays and Mondays the main branch is closed and they point you to the second branch.