A skin and wellness clinic near Hongdae in Seoul offering injections prepared from the patient's own blood cell fraction, plus exosome programmes.
Forena Clinic is a skin and wellness clinic on the seventh floor of a building at 140 Yanghwa-ro in Mapo-gu, Seoul, close to Hongdae station. Its site is written for an international audience and the clinic says it offers multilingual patient support, though it does not list which languages.
The clinic's stem cell injection page describes taking a sample of the patient's own blood and processing it through a dual-spin concentration system to isolate the buffy coat, the layer of a spun blood sample that contains white cells and platelets. The page states that this fraction contains CD34 positive haematopoietic stem cells, which are blood-forming stem cells, along with stem cell derived signalling molecules. This is an autologous blood-derived cell preparation rather than a cultured or donor stem cell product.
It is worth being clear about what the site does and does not say. Much of its emphasis falls on growth factors and signalling molecules, and it quotes multiples such as a 77-fold increase in one growth factor and a 15-fold increase in another. It does not state how many living stem cells the preparation actually contains. Those multiples are the clinic's own figures and are not independently verified. The clinic separately offers exosome packages, exosomes being small particles released by cells.
The treatment areas described are the face, neck, scalp and hairline, the body, and intravenous drip programmes, aimed at signs of skin ageing, hair thinning, recovery after procedures and general fatigue. The clinic publishes prices, which is unusual and helpful: as of the pricing shown on the site, face and scalp treatments run from about 1,089,000 to 7,359,000 Korean won and drip programmes from about 979,000 to 4,389,000 won, with the stem cell injection itself listed from 1,089,000 won for a thirty minute appointment.
The clinic describes the following cosmetic and general concerns rather than medical diagnoses.
The site says the injection is prepared from the patient's own blood, spun to isolate the buffy coat fraction, which it describes as containing CD34 positive blood-forming stem cells and stem cell derived signalling molecules.
The site names Jihye Yeom as the clinic's representative but does not publish physician names or credentials for individual treatments on the pages read.
The clinic occupies the seventh floor of a building at 140 Yanghwa-ro in Mapo-gu, in the Hongdae area of Seoul, and says it is a five minute walk from exit 9 of Hongdae station. It publishes a landline number, a messaging number and daily opening hours of roughly 09.30 to 20.30, varying by day. The pages read do not name an accrediting body or describe a laboratory beyond the blood-processing system used.
The clinic publishes prices. Face and scalp treatments are listed from about 1,089,000 to 7,359,000 Korean won and intravenous drip programmes from about 979,000 to 4,389,000 won, with the stem cell injection itself listed from 1,089,000 won for a thirty minute appointment. Prices shown on a website can change, so they should be confirmed with the clinic.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.