Your lifting plan is drawn and delivered by Dr. Hong Seung-hyuk, Dr. Maeng Woo-jae, or Dr. Hong Yeong-ho — the three resident directors, each a board-certified Family Medicine specialist working in aesthetic dermatology. With Ultherapy Prime the director reads your skin layers on a live ultrasound screen while the energy is placed at the SMAS, so the shots follow the anatomy in front of them.
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Non-surgical face lifting at G Clinic runs on four routes: Ultherapy Prime, Shurink with its Universe handpiece, Volnewmer radiofrequency, and thread lifting using cog or Silhouette Soft threads. Ultherapy Prime is the imaging-led route, where the director watches skin thickness and structure on a live ultrasound screen and delivers energy into the SMAS layer under the face. A session runs about 30 to 40 minutes depending on how many shots the plan calls for, is carried out under numbing cream while you stay awake, and most people go back to ordinary activity the same day, with swelling and redness easing over the following days. The lifted look develops as collagen responds, and the holding period is described as six months to a year or more, varying from person to person. Which route fits you depends on skin thickness, how much laxity is present, and where you want the line moved, so the decision is made face to face at a free consultation.
Two documented lifting courses from the clinic archive, shown with the camera distance and lighting held steady between visits.
Every photograph on this page is of a G Clinic patient and is published with that patient's consent. Individual results may vary, and these records are shared for information only, with no specific outcome implied for any other person.
A single representative Ultherapy Prime record, sized for a phone.
Every photograph on this page is of a G Clinic patient and is published with that patient's consent. Individual results may vary, and these records are shared for information only, with no specific outcome implied for any other person.
From the first look at your skin layers to the moment you walk out, a resident medical director stays with the treatment.
The director looks at where the line has dropped, how thick the skin sits over the cheek and jaw, and how much laxity is present, then talks through which of the four routes fits: ultrasound, radiofrequency, threads, or a staged combination. Nothing is booked on the spot, and the consultation itself is free.
Ultherapy Prime is done under numbing cream, applied and left to work before the handpiece touches the skin. You stay awake and can tell the director how each pass feels; sedation is available if it is genuinely needed, at an additional cost, and the team never presses it on anyone.
Real-time ultrasound imaging puts the skin layers on screen, so the director can confirm depth and structure before each line of shots is delivered to the SMAS. The treatment takes roughly 30 to 40 minutes, and that window moves with the number of shots agreed in your plan.
You leave on your own feet and return to daily life the same day. Swelling and a flush of redness are usual and settle within days, and the director sets a review point so the collagen response can be assessed once the skin has had time to answer the treatment.
Non-surgical lifting sends energy through the surface of the skin into the layers underneath, so tissue that has loosened over bone and muscle can be drawn upward and held closer. Nothing is cut and nothing is opened. The category at G Clinic is built around what the energy is meant to reach: micro-focused ultrasound aimed at the SMAS, radiofrequency heating through the skin and the layer below it, and absorbable threads that give mechanical support along a planned path.
The concerns people bring to this consultation are usually the same set: skin density that has thinned, rough texture, open pores, weakened elasticity, a jaw line that has dropped, general signs of ageing, lost volume in the mid-face, and fine lines. Those are the axes the clinic lists for its lifting work, and they rarely arrive one at a time.
Because collagen answers slowly, this is a category that pays out over weeks. What happens in the room is the trigger; what you see in the mirror two months later is your own tissue responding to it. If the concern you arrive with is body contour, that belongs to a different consultation and a different set of devices at the clinic.
Most energy devices are aimed by feel and by landmark. Ultherapy Prime adds a screen: real-time ultrasound imaging of the skin layers, so the director can see how thick the tissue is at that spot and confirm the depth before the energy goes in. Facial anatomy varies a great deal between people, and a cheek that carries a thick fat pad and a cheek that has thinned with age do not take the same shot map.
Once the map is agreed, energy is delivered to the SMAS, the fibrous layer that surgeons address when they lift a face in theatre. Sessions run 30 to 40 minutes and the shot count drives that number; a plan concentrated on the jaw line takes less chair time than one that also covers cheek and neck. Nothing about the process requires you to sleep through it, and most patients spend the session talking with the director between passes.
The first question is what is actually loose. Where the skin still has body and the complaint is a softening jaw line, the directors lean toward micro-focused ultrasound and treat at depth. Where the skin reads thin and crepey across a wider field, radiofrequency with Volnewmer is the option they discuss, because it works the surface layers and the tissue immediately below across a broad area. Where a line has dropped far enough that energy alone will not reposition it, threads come into the conversation, and the clinic is certified for Silhouette Soft by Sinclair as well as working with cog threads.
The directors also decline. Treatment is postponed in pregnancy and while breastfeeding, when there is active infection or inflamed skin inside the treatment field, and when a medical condition is unstable. Someone whose sagging has gone past what energy can hold will be told plainly that a surgical opinion serves them better, and no device will be sold to fill the gap. When the heaviness under the chin turns out to be volume of fat instead of laxity, the plan moves to the G-fat Fat Dissolving Injection side of the clinic, and the lifting booking is cancelled.
Nothing dramatic happens on the treatment bed. Some patients notice a slight firmness on the way home, but the meaningful part is slower: the deep layers respond to the energy, collagen is laid down over the following weeks, and the sagging line tightens gradually. For Ultherapy Prime the clinic describes a holding period of six months to a year or more, and where a case falls in that range depends on age, skin quality, how much laxity there was at the start, and how you look after your skin afterwards.
Two people with the same shot count can finish with visibly different outcomes, and the safe way to plan is to treat the range above as a range. The case records shown on this page are documentation of individual courses at G Clinic and carry no promise for anyone else. Your director will tell you at consultation what is reasonable for your face, including when the answer is that the change will be modest.
Energy-based lifting is a medical procedure and it carries medical risk. Swelling, redness, tenderness to the touch and bruising are the common ones, and they belong to the first days. Less often, patients report temporary nerve irritation felt as numbness, tingling or a heavy patch of skin, small welts along a treated line, or asymmetry between the two sides of the face. Thread work adds its own list: dimpling at the entry or exit point, a thread that can be felt under the skin, extrusion, and infection along the thread path.
You lower those odds by giving a complete history. Tell the director about medication and supplements, previous injectable or energy treatments on the same area, any implanted electrical device, and any tendency to keloid or pigment change. Afterwards, report increasing pain, spreading redness, or a numb area that is not receding, and do it early. A medical director is on site during clinic hours, so a patient who is worried can be looked at rather than reassured by phone.
Ultherapy Prime is designed around same-day life. Makeup goes back on for most people, meetings are kept, and the flush of redness and puffiness that follows a session settles within a few days. Tenderness when you chew or press the jaw can linger a little longer and is not a sign that something has gone wrong. Heat is the thing to postpone: saunas, hot yoga and hard exercise should wait for the window your director specifies.
Patients flying in tend to ask how to sequence the trip. Booking the session in the first half of the stay leaves room for a review before departure, and it means any swelling has passed by the time you are photographed at home. Our coordinators arrange that sequence in English through the consultation form, including patients who want lifting and a body plan in the same visit.
A frame for your consultation. Where the clinic has published a figure it is shown; where it has not, your director sets it one to one.
| Consideration | Ultherapy Prime | Shurink (+Universe) | Volnewmer | Thread lift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Method | Micro-focused ultrasound with real-time imaging | Ultrasound lifting platform | Radiofrequency | Absorbable cog or Silhouette Soft threads |
| Where it works | Energy placed at the SMAS under screen guidance | Depth plan agreed device-side at consultation | Heating through skin and the layer beneath it | Mechanical support along a mapped path |
| Live imaging of your layers | Yes, skin thickness and structure on screen | Assessed by hand mapping | Assessed by hand mapping | Assessed by hand mapping |
| Anaesthesia | Numbing cream; sedation possible if needed, at additional cost | Set by your director | Set by your director | Set by your director |
| Time in the chair | Around 30 to 40 minutes, moving with shot count | Confirmed one to one | Confirmed one to one | Confirmed one to one |
| Return to daily life | Same day; swelling and redness settle within days | Reviewed at your consultation | Reviewed at your consultation | Reviewed at your consultation |
| How long it holds | Six months to a year or more, varying by person | Discussed case by case | Discussed case by case | Discussed case by case |
| Certification held by the clinic | Ulthera Authenticity Certified Clinic | — | Volnewmer Official Certified Clinic (Classys) | Silhouette Soft certified (Sinclair) |
This grid is general information for planning a conversation. What suits your face depends on your anatomy, your health history and what you want changed, and your resident director works through it with you at the free consultation.
The methods behind this page have been examined in the peer-reviewed literature at the level of the technique, and the papers below are cited for what their titles cover. A review of collagen stimulators in body applications, focused on poly-L-lactic acid, sets out how that material family is discussed as a collagen stimulator (Christen, 2022). A systematic review then gathers the published work on the clinical efficacy of micro-focused ultrasound treatment for skin rejuvenation and tightening (Khan, 2021). A prospective study of intense focused ultrasound for neck and lower face skin tightening reports on that specific region (Friedman, 2020). These references describe treatment categories in the wider literature and are not statements about outcomes at G Clinic, which your director reviews with you case by case.
Lifting is quoted by device and by the number of shots your plan uses, and the published rates below are the same for every patient who walks in. How many shots your face needs is decided with a director at the free consultation, so the final figure is confirmed one to one before anything is booked.
| Treatment | Option | Price (KRW) |
|---|---|---|
| Ultherapy Prime | 100 shots | ₩429,000 |
| Ultherapy Prime | 200 shots | ₩825,000 |
| Ultherapy Prime | 300 shots | ₩1,210,000 |
| Ultherapy Prime | 400 shots | ₩1,595,000 |
| Volnewmer | 300 shots | ₩550,000 |
| Shurink HIFU | 300 shots | ₩330,000 |
| Thread Lift | Cog thread, 1 thread | ₩110,000 |
| Silhouette Soft | 1 thread | ₩550,000 |
All prices in KRW, VAT included. Quoted at consultation; final cost depends on treatment plan. Published rates as of 2026-09-08.
That decision belongs in the consultation room, because it turns on skin thickness and how much laxity is present. Skin with body and a softening jaw line points toward micro-focused ultrasound; thin, crepey skin over a wide field points toward Volnewmer radiofrequency; a line that has dropped further brings threads into the discussion. Your director examines the face and explains the reasoning before anything is agreed.
Numbing cream is applied and given time to work, and you stay awake for the whole session, which lets you tell the director how each pass feels. Sensation varies with the area and the depth being treated, and most people describe short bursts of heat deep under the skin. Sedation is available where it is genuinely needed, at an additional cost.
Around 30 to 40 minutes for the treatment itself, and the number moves with the shot count your plan uses. Allow extra time on the day for the consultation, for photographs, and for the numbing cream to take effect before the handpiece is used. A plan covering only the jaw line sits at the shorter end of that window.
For Ultherapy Prime the clinic describes six months to a year or more, and where an individual case lands inside that range depends on age, starting laxity, skin quality and aftercare. The change is not instant either: collagen responds over the weeks that follow, so the fuller picture appears in the weeks that follow, long past the appointment itself.
Ultherapy Prime is a same-day treatment. Swelling and a flush of redness are usual and settle within days, and tenderness when chewing or pressing the jaw can last a little longer. Heat is what to postpone for the window your director gives you, which covers saunas, hot yoga and hard training. Most patients keep their plans for the rest of the day.
Both sit in the ultrasound family, and both are part of the line-up here. The distinguishing feature of Ultherapy Prime is real-time ultrasound imaging: the director sees your skin thickness and structure on screen and confirms depth before the energy is delivered to the SMAS. Shurink, including its Universe handpiece, is planned with hand mapping, and your director explains which is appropriate.
Volnewmer is the radiofrequency option, and G Clinic is a Volnewmer Official Certified Clinic under Classys. Radiofrequency heats the skin and the layer directly beneath it across a broad field, so the directors raise it when the complaint is thinner, looser skin over a wide area more than one defined line that has dropped. Suitability is assessed in person.
Absorbable threads are placed along a path the director maps beforehand, and they give mechanical support where energy alone will not reposition a line. G Clinic works with cog threads and with Silhouette Soft, for which the clinic is certified by Sinclair. Thread work has its own risk list, including dimpling, a palpable thread and extrusion, and that is covered before you decide.
Swelling, redness, tenderness and bruising are the common ones and belong to the first days. Less often, patients report temporary nerve irritation felt as numbness or tingling, small welts along a treated line, or asymmetry between the two sides. Thread procedures add dimpling, a thread that can be felt, extrusion and infection. Your director goes through all of it beforehand.
Treatment is postponed in pregnancy and while breastfeeding, where there is active infection or inflamed skin inside the field, and where a medical condition is unstable. If your sagging has passed the point energy can hold, you will be told that a surgical opinion serves you better, and the booking is released with no device substituted for it.
Energy lifting addresses laxity, so when the heaviness under the chin turns out to be volume, the plan moves elsewhere in the clinic. That work sits with the G-fat Fat Dissolving Injection cluster, and one of the same three medical directors handles the consultation. Some patients are advised to deal with volume first and revisit lifting afterwards.
Rates are published by device and by shot count, and the figures shown in the pricing section on this page apply to every patient, with no separate visitor markup. What decides your total is how many shots the plan uses and whether more than one device is involved. Sedation, where it is genuinely needed, carries an additional cost that the director confirms.
Every lifting consultation and every shot is delivered by Dr. Hong Seung-hyuk, Dr. Maeng Woo-jae, or Dr. Hong Yeong-ho, the three resident medical directors, all board-certified Family Medicine specialists. The clinic has served international patients since 2006 and consults in English on site. Send your details through the consultation form and the team replies on your preferred messenger.
Book a free consultation in Gangnam, Seoul, and one of the three medical directors will examine the face in person, explain which route fits, and say so when the answer is that a device will not deliver what you are asking for. Published rates apply; your shot count is confirmed one to one.
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