Korean clients bring the most exacting briefs we receive. Beauty and cosmetics brands, fashion labels and e-commerce sellers on Coupang, Naver Smart Store and Gmarket all work to a visual standard that leaves very little margin for sloppy retouching.
Free TrialK-beauty product photography has conventions that are specific and strictly observed: clean bright presentation, accurate product colour, flawless packaging with no dust or fingerprints, and skin retouching that looks refined without erasing texture entirely.
Packaging work is deceptively difficult. Cosmetic containers are frequently glossy, reflective or transparent, and often all three. Glass droppers, frosted bottles and metallic caps each need different handling to look premium rather than plasticky. Colour accuracy is critical too, since a foundation or lipstick shade that misrepresents the actual product generates returns and complaints.
Korean fashion e-commerce relies on long-form listing pages with many images per product. That means a single item might need forty or fifty edited photographs covering details, fabric texture, fit and styling, all consistent in tone.
We do ghost mannequin work, garment shape correction, fabric texture preservation and the model retouching these listings expect, keeping a consistent look across the whole sequence rather than editing each shot independently.
Coupang, Naver and Gmarket each have their own image specifications and their own browsing behaviour. Korean listing pages tend to be considerably longer and more image-dense than Western equivalents, with detail shots and information graphics that Western catalogues rarely include.
We prepare images sized and formatted for each platform from a single edited master, so quality holds across all of them.
Korea runs one hour ahead of our Cebu studio, so we are working through almost exactly the same business day. Revisions can be discussed and returned within hours rather than across an overnight gap, which matters given how iterative Korean brand work tends to be.
Send three product photographs and a reference showing the standard you work to. We will match it and return them, so you can assess the quality against your current retoucher before committing.