Hair2026.08.14
The Korean salon menu, decoded — 7 lines that decide your bill
A Seoul price list is not one price per service. It is a grid: who cuts, how long your hair is, and whether the cut is included. Read the grid and the number stops surprising you.
Translation apps handle the words on a Korean salon menu. They do not handle the structure — and the structure is where the money is. The same haircut can be three prices in the same room, and a perm quoted at ₩110,000 can arrive as ₩165,000.
Every figure below is from a real menu of a salon listed on millio, as of August 2026. Nothing here is an estimate.
- 01The first thing on the bill is a rank, not a serviceKorean salons price by seniority: 디자이너 (designer) → 실장 (manager) → 부원장 (associate director) → 원장 (director). At one Hannam salon the same cut is ₩55,000 with a designer and ₩77,000 with a director. Nobody will ask which you want unless you ask first.
- 02Length is a price tier, not a detailMenus split colour and perm by 숏 (short) · 단발 (bob) · 미디움 (medium) · 롱 (long) · 롱롱 (extra long). At that same salon, one colour service runs ₩140,000 at short and ₩250,000 at extra long — the length line matters more than the colour you choose.
- 03「커트비 별도」 means the cut is extraPartial perms — root perm, bang perm, down perm — are quoted without the haircut. A ₩110,000 root perm plus a ₩55,000 cut is a ₩165,000 afternoon. Ask 커트 포함이에요? (is the cut included?) before you agree.
- 04There are two kinds of perm and they aren't close in price열펌 (heat: digital perm, setting perm) uses rods that heat the hair and holds a rounder curl; 콜드펌 is the chemical-only version. Across listed salons, perms run from a ₩20,000 down perm to over ₩400,000 for a heat perm on long hair. If a price shocks you, check which of the two you're reading.
- 05매직 is straightening — and 뿌리매직 is the cheap way back매직 (magic straight) is the full-length treatment. 뿌리매직 does the regrowth only, which is what most people actually need three months later: ₩200,000 versus a full straightening, at one listed salon.
- 06클리닉 and 케어 are treatments, not a washA 클리닉 or 케어 line is a bonded conditioning course, and it is priced like a service, not an add-on — ₩80,000 to ₩440,000 across salons listed on millio. If your stylist suggests one mid-appointment, it is a new line on the bill.
- 07Some menus still price by genderYou will see 남성 (men) / 여성 (women) on cut and styling lines — at one Myeongdong salon, styling is ₩25,000 for men and ₩30,000 for women. It is a menu convention, not a judgement about what you're asking for.
See the whole menu before you go
Every salon on millio publishes its full price list in your language — rank by rank, length by length. Pick the line you want, then book it.
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