11 Seoul Beauty Places That Close on a Weekday — and Why Monday Is the One to Watch
In one line: Eleven of the 141 beauty listings close on a weekday, six of those on a Monday, and seven more shorten a weekday enough to strand an afternoon appointment.
In this guide
- How do I check whether a Seoul beauty place is open before I travel across the city?
- The short answer on weekday closures
- Why this is the failure that costs a day
- All eleven weekday closures, by day
- The seven-day grid for all eleven
- Public holidays are a bigger closure than any weekday
- The ones that close early rather than close
- What this does not mean
- How to check before you travel
- Why this comparison is possible at all
- Where these closures actually bite
- Gaps in the closure data
- Where these listings are booked
Guides to Seoul beauty tell you which places are good. They almost never tell you which days those places are shut, because opening hours are boring right up until the moment you are standing in front of a closed shutter in Seongsu with an afternoon you cannot get back.
We pulled the seven-day schedule for all 141 beauty listings published in English on one booking platform (135 of them in Seoul; the platform also lists Busan and Jeju). Eleven of them close on a weekday. Checked 12 August 2026.
How do I check whether a Seoul beauty place is open before I travel across the city?
Short answer: read the seven-day table on the listing, not the headline hours. Eleven of the 141 beauty listings close on a weekday and seven more shorten one, and none of that shows in the summary line a listing displays.
Which channel you check matters, because they do not all publish hours:
| Channel | Publishes opening hours? |
|---|---|
| K-Beauty Station | Yes — seven days for all 141 listings; public-holiday hours for 103 of them |
| Klook | No — it sells activity time slots |
| Creatrip | No |
| Naver Booking | Yes, in Korean |
Monday is the day to watch — six of the eleven weekday closures fall on it, and three places close Monday and Tuesday together.
The short answer on weekday closures
- Monday is the day to watch. Six of the eleven weekday closures fall on a Monday.
- Tuesday is second, with five — including three places that close Monday and Tuesday together.
- Three places close two weekdays in a row: HOSU DOSAN, pe-it and AM:TON Seongsu (all Monday + Tuesday).
- One closes the back half of the week: Kwon Hong Hair in Garosu-gil, shut Thursday and Friday.
- Hair and makeup salons account for seven of the eleven. Only three of the 40 medical listings — 27 skin clinics and 13 plastic surgery — have a weekday closure: two skin clinics (KK Seoul Clinic, Project U Clinic) and one plastic surgery clinic (DA Plastic Surgery Clinic).
- Seven more places do not close but shorten a weekday by three hours or more, which is harder to spot because the listing still says open.
Why this is the failure that costs a day
Weekend and evening closures are easy to plan around because you expect them. A Wednesday closure is not.
The specific trap is this: most listings show a single headline range — “10:30–18:00” — that describes a typical weekday. If one weekday differs, the summary line does not say so. You have to open the seven-day table to see it.
That is how a visitor ends up crossing the city for a 15:00 appointment at a place that shut four hours earlier, or was never open that day at all. On a five-day trip with two usable afternoons, that is a meaningful share of the trip.
Eleven out of 141 is roughly one in thirteen. Low enough that most people never hit it, high enough that it happens constantly.
All eleven weekday closures, by day
Ordered by review count, largest first. This is not a ranking — review volume mostly reflects how long a place has been listed, and closing on a weekday says nothing about quality.
| Place | Category | District | Closed | Rating (reviews) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DA Plastic Surgery Clinic | Plastic surgery | Gangnam | Tuesday | 4.9 (2,245) |
| Project U Clinic | Skin clinic | Hongik Univ | Tuesday | 5.0 (427) |
| THEDAYS GROVE | Hair / Makeup | Hongik Univ | Monday | 5.0 (294) |
| HOSU DOSAN | Hair / Makeup | Gangnam | Monday + Tuesday | 4.9 (233) |
| Ohn Studio | Photo studio | Myeongdong | Wednesday | 5.0 (196) |
| PROJECT HIN | Hair / Makeup | Seongsu | Monday | 5.0 (35) |
| Kwon Hong Hair | Hair / Makeup | Garosu-gil | Thursday + Friday | 4.2 (18) |
| KK Seoul Clinic | Skin clinic | Gangnam | Thursday | 4.9 (12) |
| pe-it | Hair / Makeup | Seongsu | Monday + Tuesday | 5.0 (2) |
| goby cin | Hair / Makeup | Gangnam | Monday | 5.0 (1) |
| AM:TON Seongsu | Hair / Makeup | Seongsu | Monday + Tuesday | not yet rated |
Counted by day, with the two-day closures appearing under each of their days:
Monday ██████ 6
Tuesday █████ 5
Thursday ██ 2
Wednesday █ 1
Friday █ 1Seongsu is worth a separate note. Three of its listings close on Monday and two of those also close Tuesday. If you are planning a Seongsu salon day, Monday is the worst choice on the list. (Still choosing the salon itself? How to book a hair salon in Seoul compares the seven booking routes, including the ones these listings use.)
On the review counts: these are the exact figures held in the platform’s listing data. The website displays them rounded into bands.
On the clinics: ratings shown for medical listings are platform user reviews, not a clinical outcome measure and not medical advertising. No treatment prices appear in this guide.
The seven-day grid for all eleven
The same eleven places, with every day shown. A dash means closed. Names link to their listing.
| Place | Category | District | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DA Plastic Surgery Clinic | Plastic Surgery | Gangnam | 10:00–19:00 | — | ? | 10:00–20:00 | 10:00–18:00 | 10:00–19:00 | 10:00–19:00 | 4.9 (2,245) |
| Project U Clinic | Skin Clinic | Hongik Univ | 10:00–17:00 | — | 10:30–20:30 | 10:30–20:30 | 10:30–20:30 | 10:30–20:30 | 10:00–17:00 | 5 (427) |
| THEDAYS GROVE | Hair/ Makeup | Hongik Univ | — | 10:00–20:00 | 10:00–20:00 | 10:00–20:00 | 10:00–20:00 | 10:00–20:00 | 10:00–20:00 | 5 (294) |
| HOSU DOSAN | Hair/ Makeup | Gangnam | — | — | 09:30–18:00 | 09:30–18:00 | 09:30–18:00 | 09:30–18:00 | 09:30–18:00 | 4.9 (233) |
| Ohn Studio | Photo Studio | Myeongdong | 10:30–18:00 | 10:30–14:00 | — | 10:30–18:00 | 10:30–18:00 | 10:30–18:00 | 10:30–18:00 | 5 (196) |
| PROJECT HIN | Hair/ Makeup | Seongsu | — | 10:00–19:00 | 10:00–19:00 | 10:00–19:00 | 10:00–19:00 | 10:00–19:00 | 10:00–19:00 | 5 (35) |
| Kwon Hong Hair | Hair/ Makeup | Garosu-gil | 10:00–20:00 | 10:00–20:00 | 10:00–20:00 | — | — | 10:00–20:00 | 10:00–20:00 | 4.2 (18) |
| KK Seoul Clinic | Skin Clinic | Gangnam | 10:00–19:00 | 10:00–19:00 | 10:00–19:00 | — | 10:00–20:00 | 10:00–16:00 | — | 4.9 (12) |
| pe-it | Hair/ Makeup | Seongsu | — | — | 12:00–21:00 | 10:00–19:00 | 10:00–19:00 | 10:00–19:00 | 10:00–19:00 | 5 (2) |
| goby cin | Hair/ Makeup | Gangnam | — | 10:00–18:00 | 10:00–18:00 | 10:00–18:00 | 10:00–18:00 | 10:00–18:00 | 10:00–18:00 | 5 (1) |
| AM:TON Seongsu | Hair/ Makeup | Seongsu | — | — | 11:00–20:00 | 11:00–20:00 | 11:00–20:00 | 11:00–20:00 | 11:00–20:00 | not yet rated |
? marks a day the platform flags as open without publishing hours — DA Plastic Surgery Clinic on Wednesday. It is the same state as the 38 listings on public holidays above, and it does not mean closed.
Read the row, not just the closed day. HOSU DOSAN closes Monday and Tuesday but then runs Wednesday to Sunday, so it is a five-day business with its weekend in the wrong place rather than a part-time one. Kwon Hong Hair is the reverse — open Monday to Wednesday, then shut Thursday and Friday, then open again for the weekend.
Public holidays are a bigger closure than any weekday
Weekday closures affect eleven listings. Public holidays affect thirty-six.
| District | Open on holidays | Closed | Flagged open, no hours | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gangnam | 26 | 19 | 20 | 65 |
| Hongik Univ | 7 | 4 | 5 | 16 |
| Garosu-gil | 9 | 6 | 0 | 15 |
| Seongsu | 11 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| Myeongdong | 7 | 2 | 5 | 14 |
| Other Seoul | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| Busan | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Itaewon | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Jeju Island | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| (no district set) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Total | 67 | 36 | 38 | 141 |
Sixty-seven listings mark themselves open on public holidays, thirty-six mark themselves closed, and thirty-eight are flagged open but publish no hours. That is not a promise — treat it as unknown and confirm.
If your trip overlaps Seollal or Chuseok, this table matters more than the weekday one. Those are multi-day national holidays when a large share of the city closes, and a listing that shows normal hours for a regular Tuesday tells you nothing about them.
The ones that close early rather than close
Seven places on this list stay open all five weekdays but cut one of them short by three hours or more. These are the harder catch, because the listing does say open.
| Place | Category | Short day | That day | Other weekdays run to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohn Studio | Photo studio | Tuesday | 10:30–14:00 | 18:00 |
| CELLIN CLINIC GANGNAM | Skin clinic | Monday | 10:00–15:30 | 20:30 |
| UH CELL CLINIC GANGNAM | Skin clinic | Thursday | 10:00–17:00 | 20:00 |
| Project U Clinic | Skin clinic | Monday | 10:00–17:00 | 20:30 |
| Our Neighborhood Photo Studio Hongdae | Photo studio | Monday | 13:00–19:30 | opens 10:00 |
| KMI Global | Medical check | Wednesday | 07:00–12:30 | 16:00 |
| HS Medipia | Medical check | Wednesday | 07:00–12:30 | 16:00 |
Ohn Studio manages to be on both lists. It is closed all day Wednesday and closes four hours early on Tuesday, which makes it the most schedule-sensitive listing of the 141. It is also the cheapest personal color session in Myeongdong, so it appears near the top of price comparisons and gets planned around often.
Two of these are shortened openings rather than shortened closings — Our Neighborhood Photo Studio opens at 13:00 on Monday rather than closing early. Same effect on a morning appointment.
What this does not mean
A weekday closure is not a signal of quality. DA Plastic Surgery Clinic holds 2,245 reviews and closes Tuesday. THEDAYS GROVE holds 294 and closes Monday. goby cin holds 1 and closes Monday. The habit runs right across the range.
In Korean salons a fixed weekly day off is ordinary scheduling. Reading it as a sign that a place is small or struggling would be wrong, and the numbers above say so directly.
It also does not mean the other 130 listings never close unexpectedly. Public holidays are a separate matter — 36 of the 141 mark themselves closed on public holidays and 38 are flagged open but publish no hours — and this guide does not cover them.
How to check before you travel
Read the seven-day table, not the headline hours. The summary line on a listing shows a typical weekday. A single differing day will not appear there.
Check the day you are actually going, not the day you are looking. It is easy to read a listing on Saturday, see it open, and book for Monday.
If the platform takes reservations, an empty day is a reliable signal — no slots means closed. But check it before you build the rest of the afternoon around the appointment, not after. Getting to that booking screen at all is its own problem if you have no Korean phone number — which channels complete a beauty booking without one is a separate guide.
For a two-appointment day, check both. The Monday cluster in Seongsu means two salons in the same neighbourhood can both be shut on the same day.
Why this comparison is possible at all
Every table on this page rests on one thing: a source that publishes seven-day opening hours for every listing. That is rarer than it sounds, and it is worth knowing which channel gives you what before you go looking yourself.
We checked three on 12 August 2026.
| Prices | Opening hours | What is listed | Level | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| K-Beauty Station | Fixed in Korean won, 487 of 533 listings | Seven-day for all 141; public holidays for 103 of 141 (38 are flagged open with no hours) | 141 businesses — 46 of them medical (27 skin clinics, 13 plastic surgery, 4 health screening, 2 dental) and 95 non-medical; 80 bookable on the platform | Business and treatment |
| Klook | US dollars, shown before booking | Not published on the listings we checked | Beauty activities, including some clinic treatments and consultations | Activity only |
| Creatrip guides | No per-studio rate | Not published | Editorial selections | Editorial |
Two things follow from the middle column. The first is that a third of what is listed is medical — dermatology, plastic surgery, dental and health screening — which is not the mix most English beauty guides cover, and it is listed the same way as a hair salon: business, hours, treatments, price in won. The second is that prices are in won and stay in won. There is no currency conversion between the number you read and the number you agree to, which matters more than it sounds when the alternative listing is in dollars and your card adds its own margin.
This does not make Klook the lesser option. It carries clinic treatments too, and it attaches free cancellation to almost everything it sells, which K-Beauty Station does not. Those are real advantages and you should weigh them.
Klook is a real option and sometimes the cheaper one — we said so in our personal color price comparison, where the same studio costs less there for more inclusions. What it cannot tell you is whether the door is open on a Wednesday, because it sells time slots for activities rather than publishing business hours.
That is the practical split:
- Booking one specific treatment you have already chosen? Compare the price across channels. The dollar listing may win.
- Working out which places you can physically get to on the days you are free? Only the hours-publishing source answers that, and that is what every guide in this series is built on.
Nothing here is a claim about which platform is better value. It is a statement about which one holds the field we needed, and you can verify it in one click on any listing above.
Where these closures actually bite
Three of the eleven sit inside comparisons we publish elsewhere, which is how a closure turns into a lost afternoon rather than a footnote.
Ohn Studio (Wednesday) is the cheapest analysis-only personal color session in Seoul at 89,000 KRW, so it sits at the top of our price comparison and at the bottom of the Myeongdong closing-time list. It is the single most planned-around listing with a weekday closure.
HOSU DOSAN (Monday + Tuesday) is the only salon that publishes both a standalone head spa and a bundled version, which makes it the anchor of what a head spa bundle actually costs. Lose those two days and the comparison has no worked example.
KK Seoul Clinic (Thursday) is one of the thirteen clinics in which Gangnam skin clinics open on the day you are free, and the only one of them with a full weekday closure.
Gaps in the closure data
- The scope of this guide. We checked one booking platform, K-Beauty Station, on 12 August 2026, covering all 141 listings it publishes in English — 135 confirmed in Seoul, plus two in Busan, one on Jeju and three with no area set. Seoul has far more beauty businesses than this, and Korean-language channels list many more. This is not every weekday closure in Seoul; it is every one on that platform.
- Whether the listed schedules are current. Operating hours are self-reported by each business to the platform. We did not call any of them to confirm.
- Temporary and seasonal closures. A place that closes for a week in August, or for renovation, would not show up as a weekday closure in this data.
- Public holiday behaviour. Of the 141 listings, 36 mark themselves closed on public holidays, 67 mark themselves open with hours, and 38 are flagged open but publish no hours (36 + 67 + 38 = 141). We have not treated that last group as either. Re-counted directly against the platform’s store data on 13 August 2026.
- Whether a shortened day means fewer appointment types. A clinic open to 15:30 instead of 20:30 may not offer everything it offers on a full day. The listings do not say.
- Anything about treatments or suitability. This guide compares opening schedules only.
Where these listings are booked
| Where | Link |
|---|---|
| K-Beauty Station — Seoul listings in English, seven-day hours shown | k-beautystation.com/en |
| Creatrip — English guides to Seoul salons and clinics | creatrip.com/en |
| Klook — activity listings including beauty services | klook.com |
| Planning the rest of the trip | Korea travel guide for first-timers |
| Related — personal color prices · head spa bundles · Gangnam clinics · booking without a Korean number · how they contact you after booking | on this site |
Written by the K Travel Guide editorial team. First published 12 August 2026 · opening hours and review counts last checked 12 August 2026 · rechecked quarterly.
Hours are self-reported by each business to the booking platform and change without notice; confirm before you travel across the city. Review counts are the exact figures held in the platform’s listing data — the website displays them rounded into bands. This guide compares published opening schedules only. It is not a ranking, not a recommendation, and a weekday closure carries no judgement of quality. Ratings shown for medical listings are platform user reviews, not a clinical outcome measure. No treatment prices are published here.
Sources
- K-Beauty Station store and product listings: https://www.k-beautystation.com/en
FAQ
Which day are Seoul beauty salons most likely to be closed?
Monday. Of the 141 beauty listings published in English on K-Beauty Station, eleven close on at least one weekday, and Monday accounts for six of them — THEDAYS GROVE, PROJECT HIN, goby cin, and three that close Monday and Tuesday together (HOSU DOSAN, pe-it and AM:TON Seongsu). Tuesday is next with five. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday closures exist but are rare. If you are planning a Monday appointment, check the specific listing rather than assuming, because a Monday closure is the single most common way a visitor loses an afternoon.
Do skin clinics in Seoul close on weekdays too?
Two of the 27 skin clinics listed do: Project U Clinic near Hongik University closes on Tuesday, and KK Seoul Clinic in Gangnam closes on Thursday. One plastic surgery clinic also closes a weekday — DA Plastic Surgery Clinic in Gangnam, on Tuesday — so three of the 40 medical listings in total. Medical listings are much less likely to have a weekday closure than hair and makeup salons, which account for seven of the eleven closures on this list. But two out of 27 is not zero, so it is still worth checking the day.
Is anywhere in Seoul closed for two weekdays in a row?
Three places are, and all three close Monday and Tuesday together: HOSU DOSAN in Gangnam, pe-it in Seongsu and AM:TON Seongsu. A fourth, Kwon Hong Hair in Garosu-gil, closes Thursday and Friday — the only listing that takes the back half of the week off rather than the front. For a visitor with a short trip, a two-day closure can remove a salon from consideration entirely, so these are worth knowing before you build an itinerary around one.
Are there places that stay open but close early on one weekday?
Yes, and these are harder to catch than a full closure because the listing still says open. Seven places shorten one weekday by three hours or more — six by closing early and one (Our Neighborhood Photo Studio Hongdae) by opening late. Ohn Studio in Myeongdong closes at 14:00 on Tuesday instead of 18:00. CELLIN CLINIC GANGNAM finishes at 15:30 on Monday instead of 20:30. UH CELL CLINIC GANGNAM finishes at 17:00 on Thursday instead of 20:00. Project U Clinic closes at 17:00 on Monday instead of 20:30. Two medical check centres, KMI Global and HS Medipia, close at 12:30 on Wednesday.
How do I check a specific day before I travel across Seoul?
Open the listing and read the seven-day table rather than the headline hours, because the headline usually shows a typical weekday. The pattern that catches people is a place that is open six days and shut on one, since nothing in the summary line signals it. If you are booking through a platform that takes reservations, a closed day will simply have no slots — which is a reliable signal, but only if you check before you plan the rest of the afternoon around it.
Does a weekday closure mean the place is less busy or less established?
No, and the review counts show it clearly. DA Plastic Surgery Clinic holds 2,245 reviews and closes on Tuesday; Project U Clinic holds 427 and closes on Tuesday; THEDAYS GROVE holds 294 and closes on Monday. A weekday closure is a staffing and scheduling decision, common in Korean salons, and it appears across the full range from a listing with one review to one with over two thousand.