The Phil Clinic
Plastic surgery clinic in Gijang-gun with no plastic surgery board certification recorded on the HIRA register.
3 clinics in Busan, Busan offering Pigmentation & Melasma. Indicative price 80,000 - 250,000 per session KRW, minimum stay Same day, but a course requires weeks.

Busan is Korea's second city and its Seomyeon and Haeundae districts hold established eye, dental and orthopedic centers at pricing generally below Seoul, with direct international flights into Gimhae Airport.
Plastic surgery clinic in Gijang-gun with no plastic surgery board certification recorded on the HIRA register.
Dermatology clinic in Haeundae-gu with 1 board-certified dermatologist, 12 minutes from Jung-dong Station.
Dermatology clinic in Jin-gu with no dermatology board certification recorded on the HIRA register, 3 minutes from Seomyeon Station.
Aggressive high-energy laser makes melasma worse. The Korean standard is repeated low-fluence Q-switched Nd:YAG toning, typically ten sessions weekly or fortnightly, alongside topical and oral treatment.
The length of your trip is set by the mandatory follow-up interval, not by how quickly you feel well, and flying too early raises the risk of swelling, bleeding and thrombosis.
Foreign patients without Korean national health insurance pay the full private rate, which is still typically 30 to 70 percent below US pricing for the same procedure, and card payment is accepted almost everywhere.
Source: Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, Republic of Korea https://www.mfds.go.kr/eng/index.do