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Annual K-Beauty Fair: a day around Korean beauty

Hi, Everyone!

Travelling to Korea is not just about visiting Korean historical and cultural places, eating Korean food, watching traditional performances, etc. Travel to Korea is also might be a visiting Korean beauty fair, which opens about twice a year. Actually, there are much more beauty fairs in Korea, but a huge-scaled one is usually 1–2 times a year.

In this post, I will share with you one of them, which is called Inter Charm. I have been to such Beauty Fairs many times. Just as a visitor, or as a part of my job, or just passing by.



Usually, Beauty Fair takes a place in COEX (Seoul) or KINTEX (Ilsan) exhibition centers. I liked COEX one more, because it is located close to my place, and because COEX is not just an exhibition center, it is also a huge trade-shopping-business-conventional-entertainment, etc center. You can find a lot of stuff to do, to eat, to enjoy, to read, to shop…here.

Like with many other festivals and fairs, InterCharm was also in Fall. It is usually October or November.

When I was there in 2018, on the same day there was also an International Fireworks Festival in Seoul too. I will tell you and show you that festival too. It was super amazing!



The entrance to the Beauty Fairs is not FREE, but there is a way to get free tickets. All that you need to do is just go there homepage online (the link you can find on google, just type ‘Inter Charm Seoul’ or “K-Beauty Fair’ or just ‘Korean beauty fair in Korea’) and pre-register for the fair. And on the fair date, you can go to the ticketing booth, tell your email or phone number and they will check your pre-registration. Well, the ticket price is not so expensive, it is usually about 5,000 KRW or 4,5 USD. So you can get your ticket to the fair.






The fair durations about 2–3 days. And you can find a schedule of the fair in front of the entrance to the hall, or online on their homepage.

I should say that the scale and content of Beauty Fair develop every year. And if we compare the fair which was about 5 years ago, we will see a lot of changes. First of all, a lot of new companies participate in the fair. Also, different seminars, competitions, events can be found at fairs.



Before, only Korean brands were represented at this fair, but nowadays, you can find also some foreign companies too.



Also, these days nail beauty becomes very popular world-widely, and a lot of nail stuff can be found at Beauty fairs too.




The size of the fair hall is bigger than a football field, and a lot of company booths are set up there.



As soon as you enter the hall, you will hear a lot of talks, and the sound of check-out points (people buy different stuff). So, in one word, it is super noisy here.




One more advantage of such fairs is that you can find a lot of beauty stuff for a much cheaper price than in other places. Therefore, some people come here with suitcases. Or companies just the product by post. So, every day a lot of parcels leave the fair hall.

At the Beauty fair, some visitors find new business partners‘;’ some visitors buy new products for personal or business use’ and some people just take a walk and check new beauty trends.

So if you have time, or if you are interested in Korean beauty stuff, visit one of the Beauty fairs in Korea.

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