Surgery · Inner-Corner Pricing

Epicanthoplasty Cost

One fee line for the inner corner, read before it is added

Gangnam, Seoul | Board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Jonghwan Choi
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Fee

Epicanthoplasty cost

How much does epicanthoplasty cost in Gangnam, Seoul?

The short answer

At Rewind, medial epicanthoplasty is one line on the clinic's eye-surgery fee list, priced as an operation in its own right and never folded into a crease package. The anaesthetic fee is already inside the listed figure, and VAT is charged on top of it. When the inner corner is booked alongside double eyelid surgery, it raises the crease quotation by its own listed amount, and that amount stays the same whether the crease is buried, partial-incision or full-incision. The published figure appears in the rate section further down this page.

Figures on this page are taken from Rewind's fee schedule for eye surgery. The description of the operation comes from the clinic's Korean page on eye-opening procedures. The clinic does not publish the anaesthesia used, the operating time or the day stitches come out, so no cost is attached to any of them here.

People pricing this operation are usually pricing two things at once: the corner itself, and the crease they expect to have with it. The corner is one of the smaller figures on the eye list, and that is precisely why the first question on a quotation is whether the line belongs there. A release that the eye did not need costs more than its fee. It leaves a line at the most noticeable point of the face, and restoring a fold is a much harder operation than releasing one.

Dr. Jonghwan Choi explaining a written eye-surgery plan to a patient at the consultation desk
Fig. 01 — The corner line goes on a plan only after the measurement supports it
Cases

Before & After

Two epicanthoplasty cases at Rewind, one line and two lines

The first patient had her inner corners opened and nothing else, so her plan held a single fee line. The second had a non-incisional crease with the corners released during the same visit, and her plan held two lines, with the corner priced exactly as it would have been on its own. In the first pair the corner is the only change to look for. In the second it is one of two, and the crease accounts for most of what you notice first.

Rewind patients — what each plan held

Before medial epicanthoplasty carried out as the only operation of the visit After medial epicanthoplasty carried out as the only operation of the visit BEFOREAFTER
a single line
Medial epicanthoplasty as the only operation of the visit
Individual results may vary.
Before a non-incisional double eyelid crease quoted beside medial epicanthoplasty After a non-incisional double eyelid crease quoted beside medial epicanthoplasty BEFOREAFTER
two lines
Non-incisional double eyelid crease quoted beside medial epicanthoplasty
Individual results may vary.

Both patients were treated and photographed at Rewind. The fee a case carried says nothing about the fee your own examination will produce, and neither photograph predicts how your corner will heal. Bleeding, infection, swelling, a difference between the two corners, a line that thickens or stays visible, and a corner opened further than intended are all possible after this operation.

Covers

The fee line

What the epicanthoplasty line on a Rewind quotation covers

A fee line is only useful if you know where its edges are. The inner-corner line pays for one defined operation and two fixed conditions; everything around it sits on lines of its own.

inside 01
The inner-corner release
The eye and its muscle are examined, the release is drawn against the position of the medial canthus, the epicanthal fold is incised inward along that design and the line is closed inward. That sequence is what the medial figure buys.
inside 02
The anaesthetic fee
Counted inside the listed figure, as it is for every operation on Rewind's eye list. The type of anaesthesia is not published by the clinic and is confirmed by the surgeon once the design is agreed.
on top 03
VAT
Added to the listed figure, never included in it. The same rule runs through every eye line, so a plan with three operations carries VAT on all three.
elsewhere 04
Neighbouring operations
The outer, lower and upper corner trims share a separate listing. The crease, eyelid muscle correction and under-eye surgery each have their own figures too, and none of them is hidden inside the corner line.

The operation itself, and the reasons Rewind declines it for some eyes, are set out on the main epicanthoplasty page. The crease it is most often priced beside has its own page under double eyelid surgery, where the three crease methods and their differences in tissue work are explained.

Quote

From measurement to figure

How an epicanthoplasty quotation is reached at Rewind

Six decisions stand between a request for the inner corner and a written figure. The first two can remove the line altogether, which makes them the cheapest part of the process to get right.

01Measure

The corners are measured before any figure exists

How much of the inner corner the fold covers, how far apart the two corners already sit, and how much pink tissue shows at the corner are read at the chair. Eyes that already sit close together, or a corner where that tissue is prominent and sharply exposed, are not offered the operation, and the line never reaches the quotation.

02Cause

The fold has to be what is shortening the eye

Rewind describes this operation for a wide space between the brows combined with a fold that covers much of the inner corner, leaving the eye looking short and closed. If the eye reads small because the lid sits low or no crease has formed, the plan moves to a different operation with a different figure.

03Design

One medial figure, whatever length the design takes

The extent of the release is drawn for each eye against the medial canthus. The fee schedule lists a single medial figure and has no grades for a shorter or longer release, so the design is argued on anatomy alone and never on price.

04Beside it

Companion operations are added as named lines

A crease, eyelid muscle correction or under-eye work planned for the same visit is quoted separately. The corner contributes the same amount to the total whichever of them it joins, and removing it from the plan removes that amount and nothing else.

05History

A previous corner operation is quoted as a revision

Rewind's fee schedule carries a revision figure for the inner corner, and it is listed at the same level as a first operation. Whether revision is possible at all depends on what was done before, so that figure is confirmed only after the earlier surgery has been examined.

06Written

The plan you leave with names every line

Each agreed operation appears with its own figure, the anaesthetic fee is stated as included, and VAT is shown as an addition. A proposed line without an examination finding behind it does not go on the paper.

Operating room on Rewind Plastic Surgery's own floors in Apgujeong
Fig. 02 — The operating room the listed figure pays for
Rewind

Why a separate line

Why Rewind prices the inner corner apart from the crease

A corner bundled into an eyelid package is hard to question: it arrives with the crease and leaves with it. Listing it alone makes the corner a decision of its own, which is what an operation with a visible line and a difficult reversal ought to be.

01Removable

The corner can leave a plan without reopening it

Because the corner has its own figure, a patient who decides against it drops one line. The crease method, any muscle correction and the date all stay as they were, and the total falls by exactly the corner's listed amount.

02Measured

A small fee is no reason to add an operation

Low-cost add-ons are the ones most easily performed on eyes that did not need them. Rewind holds the request against the distance between the corners and the tissue exposed at them, and a refused corner costs the patient nothing at all.

03Same hands

The surgeon who drew the corner reviews it through the year

A single board-certified plastic surgeon measures, designs, operates and holds the reviews, and the corner is only final six months to a year later. International patients are looked after in their own language, at a clinic registered with KHIDI for treating patients from abroad.

Private consultation room at Rewind Plastic Surgery, Apgujeong
Fig. 03 — Where each line of an eye plan is written out
Included

What the figure buys

What the epicanthoplasty fee pays for on the day

Rewind's surgical team in position around the operating table

Fig. 04 — The team the corner line is operated with

Patient draped and prepared in the procedure room at Rewind

Fig. 05 — Preparation before the design is marked

Rewind is on the fourth and fifth floors of the Richro Building in Apgujeong, Gangnam, and the operating room belongs to the clinic. Surgical consultations run on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday until 19:00 and on Saturday until 16:00, by appointment. The corner fee is not divided between a consulting doctor and an operating one, because the same surgeon is both. These are the things the medial figure already contains, and the two it does not.

Examination of the corners and the fold
Design against the medial canthus
Inward release and inward closure
Anaesthetic fee inside the figure
VAT charged on top of the figure
Other corner trims listed separately
Operated by Dr. Jonghwan Choi
Revision figure confirmed after examination
Dr. Jonghwan Choi, board-certified plastic surgeon at Rewind

Board-certified plastic surgeon

Dr. Jonghwan Choi holds Korean board certification in plastic surgery and performs every inner-corner release at Rewind himself. The clinic treats patients from abroad under its KHIDI registration, M-2025-01-08-09288.

Rates

Published rates

Rewind's listed epicanthoplasty rate and the lines priced beside it

The first figure below is the inner corner. The rest are the operations it is most often weighed against or booked with, listed so that you can see where the corner sits among them. Your own quotation holds only the lines the examination agreed, each at its listed figure.

Medial epicanthoplasty, inner cornerFold released inward along the design and closed inward
₩1,200,000
Outer, lower or upper corner trimA separate operation anchored to fascia or periosteum; one shared listing
₩1,200,000
Non-incisional (buried) double eyelidCrease fixed at seven micro-anchor points without opening the lid
₩1,200,000
Partial-incision double eyelidAbout 5 to 7 mm opened so surplus tissue can be removed
₩1,800,000
Eyelid muscle correction, added to a creaseFor a lid margin sitting low over the iris
₩1,200,000

Standard listed figures, VAT excluded; the anaesthetic fee for each operation is counted inside its figure. A combined plan is the sum of its agreed lines, and the total is written out in full at the consultation before any surgical date is offered.

Fit

Does the line belong

When the epicanthoplasty line belongs on your quotation, and when it is left off

Findings that put the corner line on the plan

  • An epicanthal fold covering much of the inner corner, with the brows set wide apart, so the eye reads short and closed
  • A wish for more horizontal length and a larger-looking eye, where the fold is the thing limiting it
  • An existing crease that did not give the eye the shape you wanted, with the covered corner still in place
  • Time to wait six months to a year before judging the corner, and to keep the reviews in that period
  • An understanding that the inner corner is where a line is most readily noticed

Findings that keep it off, or delay it

  • Corners that already sit close together: the clinic advises against the release, and the plan goes ahead without that line
  • Pink tissue at the inner corner that is already prominent and sharply exposed, which the release would make more conspicuous
  • An eye that looks small because of the lid or a missing crease, where the fee is better spent on the operation that addresses it
  • Skin that has healed with thick or red lines before, since the corner is a known site for exactly that
  • Pregnancy, breastfeeding, infection near the eye, or medication and conditions that affect bleeding or wound healing
  • A request driven by a photograph of someone else's eye, when your own corners measure differently
Time

The cost in time

The part of an epicanthoplasty budget that is paid in time

The fee is settled at the consultation; the time is spent over the following year. Rewind publishes one instruction and one period for the inner corner, and a travel budget should be built around both instead of around the operating day alone.

Before booking flights
Ask for the stitch-removal visit
The clinic does not publish a fixed day for removing inner-corner stitches. Ask for that visit to be set when the plan is written, and book the flight home around it.
The early period
No touching, no rubbing
Rewind asks that the operated corner is left alone for a period after surgery. A rubbed corner is the most avoidable route to a line that heals badly and to a second visit.
At six months
The first fair look
Six months is the earliest point the clinic gives for a natural, settled result. Paying for any further change before then means paying to alter a shape that has not finished forming.
At twelve months
Where a revision figure can apply
A year is the outer limit Rewind gives for stabilisation. Only after that is a revision line worth discussing, and only after the corner has been examined again.

Any operation carries risk, and this one has specific risks worth weighing against its modest figure: bleeding, infection, swelling, asymmetry between the two corners, a line that thickens or stays visible, and a corner opened further than intended. Reversing a release is far harder than performing one. Tell the surgeon about every earlier eye operation and every medication you take before a date is agreed.

Doctor

Professional

At Rewind, one board-certified plastic surgeon carries every case — from the first consultation to the final follow-up. Because a face is a story, and a story deserves a single author.

Dr. Jonghwan Choi, board-certified plastic surgeonRewind,
Dr. Jonghwan Choi presenting at an academic session
Fig. 06 — Academic presentation, thread-lifting session

Rewind's Doctor

Dr. Jonghwan Choi Medical Director

One surgeon, from the first
consultation to the last follow-up.

A board-certified plastic surgeon devoted to anti-aging lifting — with the precision and restraint built through years of craniofacial practice.

Board-certified plastic surgeon (Plastic Surgery)
10 peer-reviewed publications
Medical Director, Rewind Plastic Surgery
Korean Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons
Former chief director, Apgujeong Y&T Plastic Surgery
Korean Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
J Craniofac Surg · JKMS · Arch Craniofac Surg
Korean Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association
Ask

Questions

Epicanthoplasty cost: questions asked before a quotation

How much does epicanthoplasty cost in Gangnam, Seoul?
Rewind lists medial epicanthoplasty as one operation with its own published figure, shown in the rate section above. The anaesthetic fee is counted inside it and VAT is added. The figure is not graded by the length of the release, and the examination decides whether the line is offered at all.
How much does epicanthoplasty add to a double eyelid surgery quote?
Its own listed figure and nothing more. The corner is quoted as a separate operation, so it raises a buried, partial-incision or full-incision crease quotation by the same amount in each case. No bundle price replaces the two lines, and dropping the corner removes only its figure.
Is the outer corner priced differently from the inner corner?
The outer, lower and upper corner trims share one line on Rewind's fee list, and that line sits at the same figure as the medial operation. They remain different operations on different corners, anchored to different tissue, so each one agreed at the examination appears on the quotation separately.
Why might the surgeon refuse to quote an inner-corner release?
Two findings stop it in the clinic's own guidance: corners that already sit close together, and pink tissue at the inner corner that is already prominent and sharply exposed. A release would emphasise both. In those eyes the corner line is left off and the rest of the plan goes ahead.
What does it cost to revise an earlier inner-corner operation?
Rewind's fee schedule lists a revision figure for the inner corner at the same level as a first operation. Whether a revision is possible depends on what the earlier surgery did, so the figure is confirmed only after an examination, and adjustment is normally discussed once the corner has had a year to settle.
Can the figure rise once surgery has started?
The plan is written before a date is offered, with each agreed operation named and priced. Any operation added later has to be named and quoted in front of you first. The corner figure itself has no grades, so a longer or shorter design does not change it.
Why is the inner corner one of the smaller figures on the eye list?
It is a smaller operation on a short line at the inner corner. The figure reflects the size of the operation and says nothing about its consequences: the line sits at the most visible point of the eye, and restoring a released fold is far harder than releasing it.
Can I be given an exact figure from photographs sent before travelling?
The listed figures are public, so the possible lines are known in advance. Whether the corner line applies is not, because corner distance and the tissue exposed at the corner have to be measured in person. Photographs help start the conversation; the written total follows the examination in Seoul.
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Scientific evidence

Published work on the inner-corner operation behind this fee line

None of these papers discusses fees. Two describe how the medial release can be designed to limit its scar, which is the main thing a patient buys beyond the widened corner, and the third covers the buried crease technique the corner is often priced beside. They report other surgeons' series and cannot predict how an individual corner will heal.