Arms here are quoted and treated by Dr. Hong Seung-hyuk, Dr. Maeng Woo-jae or Dr. Hong Yeong-ho, the three resident medical directors, who are board-certified Family Medicine specialists practising aesthetic medicine. What overseas readers search for as arm liposuction arrives at G Clinic as G-fat: cannula extraction through one micro-entry per palm-sized area, carried out under local anaesthetic while you stay awake and talk to the person treating you.
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At G Clinic it is sold by the area, and the procedure behind the phrase is G-fat, an extraction treatment carried out in a treatment room while you are awake on local anaesthetic. A fine cannula goes in through one micro-entry point per area, a suction device draws the fat cells out, and the volume has left your arm by the time you put your coat back on. An arm divides into palm-sized zones: outer upper arm, inner upper arm, bra line and the pad beside the armpit. Each zone is a countable area, treating both limbs doubles the count, and nothing inside a single area is capped, so a fuller arm and a modest one sit on identical terms. One appointment usually covers the plan. Which zones belong in yours is settled face to face at a free consultation.
Arm shape is inherited as much as it is earned, so treat these six as illustrations of what extraction does to a limb and take your own reading from a director in person.
Each pairing above belongs to a G Clinic patient who agreed to its publication. Individual results may vary; nothing here is offered as a forecast for any particular arm.
One representative limb, enlarged for a phone. Desktop visitors get the full set of six in the gallery above.
Published with the consent of the patient pictured. Individual results may vary, and this pairing is shared for information only.
The director who prices your arm is the one holding the cannula an hour later, and the whole thing happens with you sitting up and conversational.
You raise the arm, lower it, and turn until every surface has been seen. The director outlines what is worth taking and names each outline as a countable area, so the quote is assembled in front of you and nothing is added later. The consultation costs nothing, and walking away from the drawing is a normal outcome.
Local anaesthetic is infiltrated into the marked zones and that is the whole of it as standard. You remain awake, you can raise or drop the limb when asked, and you can report what you feel while the work proceeds. Sedation exists as an option at additional cost for anyone who would prefer to drift through the session.
Third-generation G-Lifting runs a proprietary patented cannula along the skin and fat layer first, prompting tightening before any volume leaves. On a limb that hangs, that sequence is the point. Device suction then removes the cells through the same single entry per area, at a steady pressure the operator controls.
A compression sleeve is pulled on while you are still on the bed and you are told how many hours a day it belongs there. Both limbs are compared standing up. Most visitors leave on foot within the hour, and the clinic body-care programme on devices including Noble Shape, MPR and Coolshape is there if the surface wants help settling.
Search traffic for upper arm liposuction korea is written by people who assume a hospital admission, a general anaesthetic and a surgeon. The word describes an outcome, though, and that outcome is fat cells physically leaving the limb through a tube. G-fat does exactly that; the difference sits in the setting, the anaesthetic and the size of the opening.
The naming can mislead in the other direction too, so it is worth stating plainly: the G-fat injection dissolves nothing. Despite the word injection in its name, a cannula and a suction device do the work, and the cells that come out are gone from the treated zone for good. What remains in your body can still enlarge if your weight climbs, which is a different proposition altogether.
Readers who want the full technical lineage of the procedure, including the three generations of technique behind it, will find it on the G-fat Fat Dissolving Injection hub and on the dedicated G-fat Injection page. This one stays with arms and with money.
Surgical quotes abroad often bundle theatre time, an anaesthetist and a hospital bed into a single figure, so what that figure covers is rarely obvious from the outside. G Clinic counts differently. One palm-sized zone is one area. The outer upper arm is an area; the inner surface is another; the bra line and the pad beside the armpit are their own again; and because you have two arms, everything doubles when both are treated.
Two consequences follow. The first is that volume does not move the figure: an area is charged as an area, whatever comes out of it, so nobody is penalised for arriving with fuller limbs. The second is that a small plan stays small. Somebody who only dislikes the wave at the back of the upper arm pays for that zone and no other, and that is a legitimate plan, not a starting offer.
Three things sit outside the area count and are named at consultation so they never surprise you: optional sedation carries its own fee, a BMI of thirty or above attracts a surcharge where treatment is agreed, and the G-Lifting and Ultra G-fat routes are quoted on their own lines. Published rates apply identically to visitors and to Korean residents. The structure across every zone of the body is laid out on the Liposuction Korea Cost page.
Dr. Hong Seung-hyuk, Dr. Maeng Woo-jae and Dr. Hong Yeong-ho each keep a short list of arms they decline. The procedure suits someone at a reasonably settled weight who can pinch a defined layer over the zone that bothers them. It contours a patch of a limb and it is no substitute for losing weight, so anyone arriving with general weight reduction in mind is told so before a pen touches the skin.
Refusals happen for concrete reasons. Pregnancy and breastfeeding put the plan on hold until that chapter closes. Uncontrolled medical conditions and some medications do the same until they are stable. A BMI of thirty or above is assessed case by case. If one arm swells and the history includes lymph node surgery or radiotherapy, the director will not proceed on the strength of a cosmetic consultation and will send you back to the team managing that arm.
Then there is the arm that is already mostly skin. When very little fat remains and the limb hangs because elasticity has gone, emptying the remainder tends to make the silhouette worse. The director will say that out loud and point towards G-Tight, the ultrasound-based option, or a body-care course. Visitors weighing surgery against a clinic room may want the sibling reading on Non-Surgical Liposuction before deciding.
Volume changes during the appointment, because the fat is carried out of the room in a canister. For the first days that reduction hides under swelling and the sleeve, and arms often feel firm and slightly heavy in that window. The contour people actually photograph appears as fluid drains and the skin settles back against the tissue beneath it over the following weeks.
Skin on the back of an upper arm is thin and has usually been stretched already, which is the honest limit on what any extraction technique achieves there. That limitation drives the G-Lifting pass and it drives how long a director spends assessing elasticity at consultation. Two people with the same volume of fat can finish with visibly different lines for that reason alone.
Extracted cells do not regenerate in the treated zone. Cells elsewhere, and those left behind in the arm, respond to weight gain in the usual way, so a stable weight is what protects the shape you leave with. Some visitors add skin-quality work such as Skin Boosters during the same trip. Results differ between individuals, and every photograph on this page carries its consent and variability note for that reason.
This is a minimally invasive procedure with real risks, and your director goes through them with you while you still have the option to decline. Bruising, swelling and tenderness along the treated limb are expected in the opening days, together with patches of altered sensation that take weeks to normalise. Less frequently patients develop surface irregularity, firm nodules under the skin, a fluid collection, skin laxity, infection at the micro-entry point, or asymmetry between left and right.
A limb has its own quirks. It is narrow and constantly in view from every angle, so a small irregularity reads more loudly than the same irregularity on a trunk. The inner surface sits close to the armpit and numbness lingers longest there. A sleeve worn loosely, or abandoned early because it is warm, lets fluid gather exactly where nobody wants it.
Tell the clinic your full medical history, every medication and supplement, any previous surgery near the armpit or chest, and any past reaction to anaesthetic. Afterwards, keep the entry points clean and dry and contact the clinic promptly if pain, redness, discharge or swelling grows after the first few days. A resident medical director is on site through opening hours, so somebody qualified can look at the arm.
Keyboards are the question almost everyone asks, and the answer is usually the next morning. Typing, a mouse and a phone all use the forearm, while the treated tissue sits above the elbow, so desk work resumes quickly. What feels awkward in week one is anything that lifts the elbow above shoulder height: reaching a high shelf, pulling a jumper overhead, carrying a bag on that shoulder.
The compression sleeve is the part of recovery you negotiate with daily life. It goes on in the clinic and stays on for the hours your director specifies, under sleeves in an office and under a coat outside. Loose long sleeves make the first fortnight far easier, and dark fabric spares you thinking about bruising at all.
Bruising and swelling peak around days two and three and recede from there. Firm patches can stay tender for a week or two and the body-care programme helps that surface even out. If you are flying in, leave a few days in Seoul afterwards so a director can inspect both limbs before departure, and plan to wear compression on the plane. Coordinators build the appointment around your itinerary once you send dates, and visitors treating several zones on one trip often read Mini Liposuction Korea alongside this page.
Three ways an arm loses fat, tabulated so your consultation opens on the right question.
| On an arm | Surgical liposuction | G-fat extraction | Ultra G-fat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where it happens | An operating setting | A clinic treatment room | A clinic treatment room |
| Anaesthesia | Sedation or general anaesthesia | Local, awake; sedation optional | Local, awake; sedation optional |
| Openings in the skin | Several small incisions, usually sutured | One micro-entry per treated area | Non-incisional approach |
| How the fat leaves | Aspirated under anaesthesia | Cannula plus device suction | LSSA ultrasound first, then cannula refinement |
| Appointments | A single operation | Usually one visit for the agreed areas | Usually one visit for the agreed areas |
| Desk work | Days to weeks under compression | Same or next day | Same or next day |
| Often suggested for | Very large volumes across the body | A defined arm volume removed at once | Firm upper-arm fat and fine line work |
| How it is counted | Bundled operative quote | By palm-sized area, both sides counted | By palm-sized area, on its own line |
The grid above is general information. Which column fits your limbs depends on your anatomy, your skin and your health, and a resident director works through it with you at the free consultation. A broader version covering every body zone sits on the Liposuction in Korea hub.
Removing fat by suction while the patient is awake under local anaesthesia has a long publication history. One paper reports on the safety of combined ultrasound and power-assisted liposuction performed in local anaesthesia (Sendur, 2022), which is the technical category Ultra G-fat belongs to. Another tests the efficacy of a lower lidocaine dose in tumescent liposuction (Böni, 2010), a variable that determines whether an awake session is workable at all. A third reports safety across 3,240 consecutive liposuction cases carried out exclusively under tumescent local anaesthesia (Habbema, 2009). These titles describe a method category. They are not statements about results at G Clinic and they predict nothing about your arms; that discussion belongs with a director.
Arms reach a figure through the area count described above, at rates that apply to every patient walking through the door. Both limbs double the count, nothing inside an area is capped, and sedation and the BMI surcharge are named separately when either applies. How many areas your arms need is the one number nobody can settle remotely, and the consultation that settles it costs nothing.
| Treatment | Option | Price (KRW) |
|---|---|---|
| G-fat fat extraction | per area (1 area ≈ one palm-sized zone; both sides = 2 areas) | ₩275,000 |
| G-Lifting (3rd-generation G-fat) | per area (1 area ≈ one palm-sized zone; both sides = 2 areas) | ₩330,000 |
| Ultra G-fat (ultrasound + extraction) | per area (1 area ≈ one palm-sized zone; both sides = 2 areas) | ₩385,000 |
Priced per area, not by volume: one area is roughly the size of your palm, treating both sides counts as two areas, and there is no cap on the amount removed from an area. Sedation (optional) and BMI 30+ carry an additional fee confirmed at consultation.
All prices in KRW, VAT included. Quoted at consultation; final cost depends on treatment plan. Published rates as of 2026-09-08.
The name suggests a dissolving shot, but G-fat injection physically removes fat. G Clinic developed it in Gangnam, Seoul, reporting 20,000+ cases since 2018. Local anaesthesia keeps you awake; one micro-entry per area lets a fine cannula with device suction take fat out the same day, priced by palm-sized area. Family members include third-generation G-Lifting, whose special cannula stimulates skin tightening before extraction, and Ultra G-fat, ultrasound plus extraction.
Because the result you pictured is available without the operating theatre you pictured with it. Fat cells leave the arm through a cannula in both cases. At G Clinic that happens through one micro-entry point per palm-sized area while local anaesthetic keeps you comfortable and awake, so there is no anaesthetic to sleep off and no hospital admission attached to the day.
Because the figure depends on how many palm-sized areas your arms actually need, and that is a judgement made by looking at and pinching the limb. Coordinators can explain the counting method, the sedation option and the surcharge conditions in advance, and they will. The area count itself is fixed at the free consultation with the director who will perform the treatment.
Not for the same zones. Charging follows the area, and there is no cap on the amount removed within an area, so two people treating the outer upper arm on both sides are counted the same way even when very different volumes come out. What changes a quote is the number of zones treated, plus the separate BMI surcharge where a BMI of thirty or above applies.
Most people do. Typing and mouse work run on the forearm while the treated tissue sits above the elbow, so desk tasks are manageable almost immediately under the compression sleeve. Overhead reaching, gym sessions, heavy bags on the shoulder and saunas wait until your director clears them at the follow-up check.
Your director sets the hours and the total span for your case, and it is fitted before you leave the bed. The sleeve is doing real work: it controls swelling, discourages fluid from collecting, and helps the skin re-adhere evenly. Wearing it loosely or abandoning it early because it feels warm is the most common self-inflicted setback of the first fortnight.
The outer upper arm, the inner upper arm, the bra line and the pad that sits beside the armpit, with the area over the shoulder blade assessed alongside them. Each is a separate palm-sized area on the plan. The zone-by-zone detail lives on the Arm Fat Removal page if you want to read it mapped out.
For most plans, yes. The clinic states one to two sessions for G-fat generally, and arm plans usually finish in a single visit because the agreed areas are all treated in the same sitting. A second session is possible where more is wanted afterwards. Your director tells you at consultation which of those two situations your limbs are likely to be in.
It pairs an LSSA ultrasound device, which performs the primary extraction, with the G-fat cannula refining the line afterwards. The approach is non-incisional and it is frequently suggested for firm upper-arm fat that resists standard extraction. Whether your tissue calls for it is a hands-on decision, and it is quoted on its own line separately from the standard area rate.
Skin behaviour is the genuine limit of the procedure on a limb, and it depends on your elasticity and on how much volume departs. Third-generation G-Lifting exists for exactly this: a patented cannula passes through the skin and fat layer to prompt tightening before extraction begins. Compression and the body-care programme support the weeks afterwards, and your director assesses your skin openly at consultation.
You can book the consultation, and you should expect to be declined for treatment on that limb. A swelling arm with a history of lymph node surgery or radiotherapy is a medical matter outside the scope of a cosmetic appointment, and the director will refer you back to the team managing it rather than proceed. Nobody here will treat around that history.
The cells taken out of a treated zone are gone and do not regenerate there. Fat cells remaining in your body, including those still in the arm, can enlarge if your weight increases, so a steady weight protects what you paid for. No director at this clinic will describe the outcome as beyond the reach of future weight gain.
Injectable courses shrink fat cells for the body to clear, take effect gradually and typically run to five or more weekly sessions. Extraction removes the cells in one sitting. The arm-specific write-ups sit on the Arm Fat Dissolving and Upper Arm Fat Dissolving pages, and general traveller queries are collected on Liposuction Korea Reddit.
There is no ceiling applied within a treated area, so the director extracts what the contour needs and stops when the line reads correctly standing up. The amount is dictated by your anatomy, by symmetry between the limbs and by skin quality. The general principle across body zones is set out on the How Much Fat Can Be Removed Liposuction page.
Book a free consultation and Dr. Hong Seung-hyuk, Dr. Maeng Woo-jae or Dr. Hong Yeong-ho will examine both limbs in Gangnam, Seoul, name the areas worth treating and name the ones that are not. The count is agreed in the room, at published rates, before anything begins.
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