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Cheongdam vs Apgujeong — A Cultural Essay (Editor's Reading)
A long-form cultural essay that reads Cheongdam against Apgujeong on foot at two in the afternoon — the gallery-quiet single-room consultation register on one side of the Galleria, the Rodeo-shopping
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Kim Ji-won — Editor's Letter, June 2026
Seoul Beauty Journal's June letter from the editor-in-chief — Kim Ji-won walks the city's summer-transition corridors at the pace of a magazine column, reading Hannam's first humid mornings, the Apguj
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Seoul Aesthetic Medicine — A Cultural Essay
A long-form essay on Korean aesthetic medicine as a thirty-year cultural movement, read from the editor's chair in Hannam — the 1990s K-cosmetic counter, the 2010s K-dermatology corridor, the 2020s re
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The Fifteen-Year Seoul Aesthetic Evolution — An Editor's Essay
A retrospective long-form reading of how Seoul's aesthetic-medicine practice was rewritten between 2011 and 2026 — five eras, four corridors, and the senior houses whose protocols set the city's quiet
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Editor's Letter — May 2026, Kim Ji-won
Seoul Beauty Journal's May letter from its Hannam-based editor — Kim Ji-won reads the city at the pace of a late-spring walk, from the Bogwang-dong slope across the Yanghwa Bridge and on into stretch,
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Kim Ji-won — Spring Essay Anthology 2026
Three months, one long letter from the Hannam desk — March yellow dust, April cherry blossom, May late-spring — read across Seoul's corridors and through the consultation rooms that keep the season's
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Korean Skin Culture — A Historical Arc, Editor's Essay 2026
A long-form editorial reading of Korean skin culture as one continuous arc — from the Joseon Confucian face through the 1960s Western mirror, the 1980s K-cosmetic counter, and the 2000s dermatology ro
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Why Seoul Houses Feel Different — An Editor's Essay 2026
An editor's seasonal letter on why a Seoul aesthetic-medicine house reads differently from a New York derm room or a Tokyo Aoyama practice — the unhurried consultation, the layered protocol, the waiti