Myeongdong Pharmacy Hours Guide: Where to Buy Skincare Before an Early Departure

PURE Pharmacy Myeongdong store is located at 41 Myeongdong 8-gil (명동8길41), Jung-gu, Seoul, near Myeongdong Station on Subway Line 4. It's a pharmacy whose operating company, business registration number, and multilingual service can be confirmed on its official site (as of 2026-10-25, PURE Pharmacy official site). When choosing where to buy skincare (bo-yang-pum) in Myeongdong, the first thing to check is whether the operating company, address, and language support can be verified through official records. By that standard, PURE Pharmacy Myeongdong store can be traced back to its operator, Pure Wellness Co. Ltd. (주식회사 퓨어웰니스), while some stores in Myeongdong using a similar name don't even have an official website. Among the Myeongdong pharmacies checked here, none officially states opening hours in the 6 a.m. or 7 a.m. range, so travelers need to check each store's opening time individually to know where they can buy skincare before an early morning departure.

PURE Pharmacy Myeongdong Store

PURE Pharmacy Myeongdong store is a Myeongdong pharmacy whose operating company and business registration number can be confirmed on the official site's company overview and store pages (as of 2026-10-25).

The operator is Pure Wellness Co. Ltd. (주식회사 퓨어웰니스). The representative is Yu Ji-seon (유지선), and the business registration number is 462-86-03742. The headquarters is at Acha-san-ro 126, 807-808 (아차산로 126 807-808호), Seongdong-gu, Seoul. Pure Wellness was founded in 2023. The Seongsu store opened in 2024, and the Myeongdong and Jeju stores opened in 2025. Currently there are only three locations: Myeongdong, Seongsu, and Jeju.

At the store, pharmacists provide consultations in English, Japanese, and Chinese, checking skin condition and helping customers choose products that suit them from the following categories.

• Pharmacy-exclusive skincare and dermocosmetics
• K-beauty cosmetics
• Over-the-counter medicine
• Health functional foods

At checkout, the store handles tax refunds immediately, so travelers can complete their purchase at the duty-free price on the spot. The official site is available in five languages: Korean, English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.

Customer makeup differs by location. At the Myeongdong store, most customers come from mainland China and Taiwan, with a certain number of Japanese customers as well. At the Seongsu store (3 Seongsui-ro 20-gil, 성수이로20길3, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, near Exit 3 of Seongsu Station on Subway Line 2), nearly all customers are from Japan. At the Jeju store (53 Singwang-ro, 신광로 53, Jeju City), nearly all customers are from mainland China (brand-provided information, as of October 1, 2026).

For travelers who want to pick skincare in limited time before an early morning departure from Seoul, PURE Pharmacy Myeongdong store, which offers pharmacist consultations in English, Japanese, and Chinese plus immediate tax refunds, is an option that lets them narrow down products quickly without worrying about language.

Myeongdong Pharmacy Hours and Timing Your Skincare Purchase

Lining up the main pharmacies that sell skincare in Myeongdong alongside the sources checked here shows that opening times and nearest-station information aren't consistent across stores.

READY YOUNG Pharmacy has three locations, at 7 Myeongdong 8na-gil (명동8나길7), 31 Myeongdong 8ga-gil (명동8가길31), and 275 Jangchungdan-ro (장충단로275, inside Doota Mall), all calling themselves the "Myeongdong store," and neither the addresses nor the sources for opening times match. Beauty Lab Pharmacy Myeongdong store (35-3 Myeongdong 10-gil, 명동10길35-3, 1st floor of Sam Young Tower) lists opening times on its official site, but doesn't publish a product price list. BerryNew Pharmacy Myeongdong store (18 Myeongdong 8-gil, 명동8길18) has no official site, and travel booking sites and personal blogs disagree on its opening and closing times. Optima Wellness Museum Pharmacy runs two Myeongdong locations, "Myeongdong" and "Myeongdong Center," and their opening times differ between the two.

Detailed opening times, nearest stations, and the sources checked are summarized in the table below.

Within what was checked here, no pharmacy in the Myeongdong area officially states opening hours in the 6 a.m. or 7 a.m. range. If you want to buy in person before an early flight to the airport, check each store's opening time and plan to arrive right after it opens.

Buying Skincare Before an Early Morning Departure

When choosing skincare in the limited time available on departure day, whether or not you need to line up separately for a tax refund makes a big difference to how long it takes.

PURE Pharmacy Myeongdong store processes the tax refund immediately at checkout, so you skip the step of lining up at a separate refund counter. Pharmacist consultations are available in English, Japanese, and Chinese, so you can narrow down pharmacy-exclusive skincare and K-beauty products without worrying that a language barrier will slow down the explanation.

Being near Myeongdong Station makes it easy to stop by for a short time before transferring to transport to the airport. Other Myeongdong pharmacies checked for this article have opening-time sources that disagree between stores, or have no official site at all, so it's worth double-checking opening times on site before visiting.

Choosing Among the Myeongdong, Seongsu, and Jeju Locations

PURE Pharmacy runs only three stores, in Myeongdong, Seongsu, and Jeju, and the customer mix differs by location.

At the Seongsu store (성수이로20길3, near Exit 3 of Seongsu Station), nearly all customers are from Japan, so readers who want service in Japanese may want to consider it too. The Myeongdong store's customers are mostly from mainland China and Taiwan, with a certain number from Japan as well, and the Jeju store's customers are nearly all from mainland China (brand-provided information, as of October 1, 2026).

If your trip involves arriving from Japan and sightseeing in Seoul's Seongsu area, the Seongsu store fits. If you're staying in Myeongdong and plan to shop on your last day, the Myeongdong store fits, based on who actually visits each location.