Ultherapy in Korea, Told Apart From Lookalikes

Short answer: for Ultherapy in Myeongdong, the 10 clinics compared on this page are RE:BERRY Clinic Myeongdong, Kind Global Clinic, Summit Clinic, Beauty Lounge Clinic Myeongdong, Lienjang Myeongdong Aesthetic Clinic, Muse Clinic Myeongdong, Heyday Clinic Myeongdong, Tone's Clinic Myeongdong, iD Clinic Myeongdong and Curveline Clinic Myeongdong. Their published Ultherapy prices start at ₩450,000 before VAT.

Prices below come from the listed clinics' own price lists, before VAT. 10% VAT is added at payment.

Ultherapy fits adults whose skin has started to slacken while still holding some thickness: a jaw edge that has softened, early fullness below the chin, cheeks that have dropped slightly or a brow sitting lower than it used to. It also suits visitors who want one appointment, since nothing is cut and no dressing is needed.

It is a poor match for heavy, folded skin on the neck or lower face, where surgical tightening is the realistic option, and for very thin faces with little fat, where deep heating can make hollows look sharper. It does not erase fine surface lines, brown spots or redness, and it does not replace lost volume. A consultation should say plainly when another treatment would serve better.

Ultherapy is a microfocused ultrasound system with visualization. The handpiece shows a cross-section of skin, fat and the SMAS on screen, and the operator only fires when the target layer sits in the right place. Each pulse lays down a row of tiny heated points at one fixed depth while the surface is left intact, and the body responds over the following months by tightening and rebuilding collagen.

Several other machines on Korean menus also use focused ultrasound. Shurink Universe from Classys, sold abroad as Ultraformer MPT, offers cartridges from 1.5 to 4.5 mm without the imaging screen. Sofwave works differently again, with parallel cylindrical beams that heat the dermis at about 1.5 mm. Menus sometimes print a generic word such as ultrasound lifting, so ask for the device name in writing. A 2025 systematic review in Lasers in Medical Science by Modena and colleagues pooled studies of this technology and found promising improvement in sagging skin, while noting that higher-quality trials are still needed.

Dose is counted in lines, one line being one row of points from a single pulse. A plan assigns lines per area and per depth, which is why two quotes for the same face can differ. In a 2020 trial in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, Vachiramon and colleagues gave 200 lines to each upper arm and found that one deep plane scored slightly higher on physician ratings than splitting lines across two depths, a reminder that more layers are not automatically more effect.

• Redness, swelling and tenderness are common and short-lived.
• Bruising, temporary numbness or lines of welts can occur.
• Discomfort during pulses is real; numbing reduces it but does not remove it.
• Rare effects include nerve irritation causing brief muscle weakness.
• Burns or tissue loss are uncommon but reported after poor technique.
• The lift is gradual and modest; it does not match surgery.