Gowoonmom Clinic

Gowoonmom works in a category most foreign patients have never heard named: body-contouring fillers. Where the rest of this magazine’s records are about faces, scalps and teeth, this clinic’s own site leads with volume added to hips, chest and shoulders, and it publishes that site in English, Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese, which is a plain statement about who it expects to walk in.

The reception desk at Gowoonmom Clinic, under the clinic's own signage

The waiting lounge at Gowoonmom Clinic

Three curtained treatment bays in the injection room at Gowoonmom Clinic

The unit to hold onto is the millilitre

A facial filler syringe holds one millilitre. Body work is measured in tens of millilitres per session, and sometimes more. Almost every question worth asking in this category follows from that one number: which product, at that volume, from how many boxes, opened where. A quantity that is a rounding error in facial work is the whole substance of body work, so the paperwork habits that are merely sensible elsewhere are essential here.

The rooms themselves are worth a sentence. Treatment here happens both in closed rooms with doors and in a curtained three-bay injection room, which is normal in Korea and worth knowing in advance: ask which one your procedure is scheduled in.