Beauty Products In South Korea

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South Korea becomes popular in recent years for the beauty product like skin-care products and cosmetics for women, by using the concept of nature they use natural ingredients and eco-friendly packaging to attract international market. Now young, middle aged or old, and woman or men are also buying into the beauty obsession that has swept this beauty product field, boosting the nation’s already booming pocket friendly cosmetics business.

“In South Korea, being young and active is considered very attractive qualities. Youth equals ability,” said Eric Min, deputy editor in chief at Luel, a glossy men’s magazine with a whole section devoted to grooming. Min, 41, has bright, flawless skin with not even the faintest wrinkle. “So you get plus points …show more content…

They can do everything to get the perfect looking include doing plastic surgery that still rare in Indonesia but in Korea it becomes the part of their lifestyle and by doing it people get confident more than before. Everyone not shy anymore to admit that they already done the plastic surgery and if you want to do it you can find easily plastic surgery clinic or treatments, you can do it more than one time and some parents give it as the present for their children when they have finished their high school and majority they do their first surgery when they are teenager. So that is why they really focus on their skin after that to take care it. However, Korea has they own beauty standards. Have a flawless white skin with no dark spot, big eyes, small face with V-line shape and slim body also straight eyebrow you are completed to be beautiful in Korea.

Because of huge demand and attraction from customer, the South Korean beauty-product industry boasts about $10 billion in sales annually through stores such as Etude House, Nature Republic, Laneige, Missha, The Skin Food and Tony Moly. Therefore, the exports of Korean beauty cosmetics have been growing at a rapid pace to Southeast Asia and China, and many tourists here head straight for these shops.
“Within South Korea, Mintel data pegs the country as one of the fastest growing markets for beauty and personal care markets, achieving nearly 6% growth in one year—which is astounding in comparison to runners up U.S. (3.9%) and UK (2.1%). Euro monitor placed the total value of skin care sales and color cosmetics in South Korea at $6.2 billion in

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