Olive Young bestsellers you can't get at home — and how to get them after your trip

Olive Young is where most visitors in Korea buy skincare. Two kinds of data show what they pick: news reports from stores in tourist areas, and Olive Young Global's bestseller list, which is based on orders from people living outside Korea.

What overseas buyers order most

On Olive Young Global's bestseller list, checked on 12 November 2026:

• Mediheal Essential Mask Sheet was first.
• Biodance Bio-Collagen Real Deep Mask was second.
• celimax Retinal Shot Booster was third.
• AESTURA Atobarrier 365 Cream was fourth.
• Mediheal Madecassoside toner pads were fifth.
• Anua PDRN Capsule Mist was seventh, and the Anua PDRN serum eighteenth.
• Dr. Althea 345 Relief Cream was eighth, UNOVE hair care ninth, d'Alba First Spray Serum thirteenth, Torriden Dive In serum fourteenth, and Round Lab Birch Juice sunscreen thirty-first.

The list changes every day, so treat it as a snapshot.

What visitors pick up in the stores

• Torriden Dive In serum and Round Lab Birch Juice sunscreen were named the top two on foreigners' Olive Young shopping lists (Topclass, 9 September 2026 — part of the data behind it is from 2023 and 2024). The same report says UK customers buy Mediheal Madecassoside pads in bulk.
• Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun was second in Locallure's top five of what tourists buy at Olive Young, with six million sold abroad. COSRX Snail 96 Mucin Essence was named by Olive Young Global's own staff as a signature item for foreign buyers (Locallure, 8 August 2026).
• Biodance masks, d'Alba spray serum and UNOVE hair care turned up in tourists' baskets in Myeongdong, Seongsu and Hongdae (Energy Economy, 18 September 2026).
• At medicube's own stores, 80% of shoppers in Seongsu and 93% in Hongdae were foreign (Money Today, 24 May 2026).
• Hand care is a souvenir category: 40% of Olive Young's hand-care sales come from foreign tourists. In hair care, 28% of hair tonic and ampoule sales are to foreigners, with scalp products like LABO-H among them (Korea Economic Daily, 31 August 2026).

Why some are hard to get at home

A brand being sold in your country doesn't mean every product is. A visitor from Slovakia told reporters that AESTURA's Atobarrier cream was something they couldn't find at home (Energy Economy, 18 September 2026). Olive Young also sells bundle sets and promotional sizes that change often and sell out. In our own orders, those sets were the ones most likely to be gone, or to come with different contents when we found them elsewhere.

Before you leave Korea

• Take a photo of the front and back label of anything you might want again. The Korean name and the size are what you'll need to find it later.
• Save the product page from the Olive Young app or oliveyoung.co.kr while you're there. A link is the fastest way to reorder the exact item.

After you're home

1. Check Olive Young Global first. It takes orders from abroad, and its bestseller list is built on them. Compare the product name, the size and whether it's a set.
2. If the exact item, size or set isn't there, keep the Korean product link (oliveyoung.co.kr). Korean store pages often have bundles and sizes the global site doesn't list.
3. Check what your country allows for cosmetics arriving by post, and whether import tax applies to parcels from Korea.

Send us the Olive Young link, or a photo of the label if you no longer have it. We check the item, size and stock in the Korean store, buy it on our Korean account, and ship it to you. If something is sold out or comes in a different size, we ask before changing anything.

The service fee is ₩8,000 per link. Shipping and card fees are in your quote, and you see the full price before paying.

A traveler staying outside the city asked us for a d'Alba spray serum and a Biodance collagen mask. The size they wanted was sold out, but another size was in stock, so we asked before switching. Olive Young's same-day delivery didn't reach where they were staying, and we told them so straight away rather than promise a date we couldn't keep.

Another customer wanted to wait for an Olive Young sale before ordering, and asked us to hold the items until they arrived in Seoul.