Ultherapy Cost in Korea: What You Pay per Shot, When Results Show, and Whether It Is Worth It for Your Face

• 300 shots: ₩390,000, which works out to about ₩1,300 per shot. 100 shots: ₩200,000.
• These are winter 2026 event prices, valid until 30 November 2026. VAT (10%) is added on top.
• A full lower face usually takes a few hundred shots; the doctor sets the number after examining your face.
• Results build over 2 to 3 months and often last about a year. Most people can fly home the next day.

Korean clinics price Ultherapy by the shot. One shot is one line of focused ultrasound points delivered by the handpiece. More shots cover a larger area, or add a second depth in the same area.

This makes prices easy to compare between clinics, as long as you compare the same things:

• The device. Ultherapy PRIME is the current version made by Merz. It shows a live ultrasound image of your tissue layers before each line, so the depth can be checked as it is delivered.
• Genuine cartridges. Ask to see the sealed cartridge before treatment begins. A low price per shot means little if the cartridge is not genuine.
• Who plans the shots. Ask whether a doctor examines your face and decides the areas and depths, not only a counselor.
• What is included. Numbing cream and a check-up are part of the visit at Peachcell. VAT (10%) is added on top of listed prices in Korea.

These are Peachcell’s listed prices from the winter 2026 event menu, valid until 30 November 2026. Prices are in Korean won, VAT (10%) is separate, and your final plan is confirmed at the consultation.

Korean and international patients pay the same price. The full menu is on our price list.

There is no single right number. A full lower face often takes a few hundred shots, and the count depends on three things:

1. The size of the area. A jawline alone needs fewer shots than the jaw, lower cheeks and under the chin together.
2. How deep the sagging is. Deep sagging is treated at more than one depth: the 4.5 mm cartridge reaches the SMAS, the layer a surgeon tightens in a facelift, and the 3.0 mm and 1.5 mm cartridges work in the dermis above it.
3. Your skin thickness. On thin skin over bone, the doctor lowers the energy or skips a depth. More shots is not always better there.

The eye area uses a separate, smaller handpiece, which is why Eye Ultherapy is priced on its own (225 or 450 shots).

My advice: do not choose the shot number before the consultation. Choose the areas you want to change, and let the doctor tell you how many shots that takes on your face.

The same price can be good value on one face and wasted on another. What matters is where the sagging comes from, and how much volume and skin thickness you have.

This is why the first step at Peachcell is the 3D scan and a look at your face sitting up. Sagging, fat and volume loss look similar in a photo but need different treatments.

This is one of the cases we have published. When the jawline is blurred by both sagging and a small pocket of fat under the jaw, Ultherapy alone tightens the deep layer but leaves the fat. Adding a DCA fat-dissolving injection treats the fat, so the jaw line can read more clearly.

It is a good example of why the plan starts from the cause. The same blurred jawline on another face might need Onda for fat, or volume rather than tightening.

• Right after: some people feel a little tightening straight away.
• 2 to 3 months: the main change, as new collagen forms in the treated layers.
• Around a year: many people keep a visible effect for about a year, then repeat. Aging continues, and results vary from person to person.

Ultherapy does not give the result of a surgical facelift. Deep sagging with a lot of loose skin may improve only partly, and I will tell you so at the consultation.

• Pain: it is one of the more uncomfortable lifts. Most people describe a deep, sharp heat, strongest along the jawbone. We apply numbing cream for 30 to 40 minutes first, and the energy can be adjusted in sensitive spots.
• Treatment time: about 30 to 60 minutes for the face.
• Downtime: usually little. Redness for a few hours; some people have mild swelling, tenderness or tingling for days to a couple of weeks.
• Same day: you can wash your face and wear makeup.
• For a week: skip alcohol, saunas, jjimjilbang and strong facial massage.
• Flying: most people can fly the next day. There is no wound to care for. If you want a check before you leave, book Ultherapy early in your trip.

It is usually worth it when:

• your main concern is jowls, a blurred jawline or heaviness under the chin, and
• the sagging is in the deep layer rather than only in the skin, and
• you want a non-surgical lift and can accept a few months for the full result.

It is usually not the best use of your budget when your face is thin and hollow, when fat is the main issue, or when the concern is mostly skin texture. In those cases a different lift, or a combination, gives more for the same money. You can read how the main devices compare in Ultherapy vs Thermage in Korea, and the full treatment details on our Ultherapy PRIME page.

1. Before your trip: send a front and side photo without makeup on WhatsApp. You get an honest view and an estimated price before you book flights.
2. 3D skin scan: EVE MUSE measures what is hard to judge by eye.
3. Doctor consultation: the doctor examines your face sitting up, finds where the sagging comes from, and marks the areas and depths.
4. Treatment: numbing cream, then Ultherapy PRIME with a sealed, genuine cartridge.
5. After: aftercare guidance, and progress review once the collagen has had time to build.

Peachcell is on the 3rd floor of YK Tower, 121 Dosan-daero, a minute from Sinsa Station Exit 8. Building parking is free; valet is ₩4,000.