Starting from 2026, South Korea's official medical beauty tax refund system will officially end.
For users planning to go to South Korea to do skin management, anti-aging projects, and optoelectronic projects in 2026, one of the most practical questions lies before them:
"There is no tax refund. In the future, will it be more expensive to go to South Korea to do a facial job?"
But if you zoom in to the dual dimensions of exchange rate + tax refund, the answer is actually not that simple.
In the past few years, many people have experienced the "high-cost era" of 1 RMB ≈160 won. At that time, even with a 7%-8% tax refund, the actual price at hand was still high.
Now, as the exchange rate has gradually moved to around 1 RMB ≈210 won, judging from the currency conversion alone, the same item has naturally become "a lot cheaper."
In other words:
Even if there is no official tax refund, the price gap caused by exchange rate changes alone has already offset a large part of the impact of the "tax refund cancellation".
More importantly:
The end of policies does not mean the end of preferential treatment.
This time, the one who assumes the role of "tax refund relay" is the Korean do face applet-Jiangnan Worryfree, which is familiar to more and more users visiting South Korea
