KBF Beauty House Guide: What to Know Before Visiting the K-Beauty Festival Pop-Up

KBF Beauty House is the main hands-on beauty experience space within the 2026 Korea Beauty Festival, giving visitors a practical way to explore Korean makeup, styling, personal color, skincare, and wellness programs in central Seoul. It runs at HiKR Ground through July 19, 2026, while the wider K-Beauty Festival continues with linked online travel agency promotions through September 30, 2026.¹²

For visitors planning a stop before the pop-up closes, the most important details are straightforward: KBF Beauty House is located at HiKR Ground, with activity areas listed for the outdoor plaza, 4th floor, and 5th floor, and VISITKOREA gives the operating hours as 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.¹ The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization introduced the festival as a beauty tourism program covering makeup, hair, medical services, wellness, and K-beauty promotional and experience zones.³

KBF Beauty House Location, Dates, and Basic Plan

KBF Beauty House is best understood as the in-person experience hub of the K-Beauty Festival rather than the entire festival itself. VISITKOREA’s event overview lists the overall 2026 Korea Beauty Festival period as June 24 to September 30, 2026, but classifies KBF Beauty House as an experience-type program at HiKR Ground that operates only until July 19.² That distinction matters for planning: the physical Beauty House pop-up has a shorter window, while the special K-beauty tourism product promotions continue longer.

The venue is HiKR Ground in Seoul, a location used for the festival’s public-facing beauty experience programming. The Beauty House listing identifies the outdoor plaza, 4th floor, and 5th floor as the relevant areas, with daily hours from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.¹ A separate travel news item describes the 4th floor as a place for K-pop idol-style makeup and customized hair and fashion advice, while the 5th floor features personal color analysis, wedding styling consultation, makeup demonstrations, and lectures on regional fashion trends.⁴

Because the available source material does not state an admission fee, reservation method, or walk-in policy, visitors should treat only the confirmed items as fixed: the venue, floors, dates, and operating hours. If a specific brand program or consultation is the reason for visiting, checking the official event page close to the visit would be prudent, but the confirmed public schedule places KBF Beauty House at HiKR Ground through July 19.

What You Can Experience at the Second Pop-Up

The second KBF Beauty House pop-up expanded the program beyond the first event held from June 25 to 28. Newsis reported that the second pop-up runs until July 19 on the 4th floor of HiKR Ground in Jung-gu, Seoul, and includes more participating brands and experience content than the first round.⁵

The added programs make the pop-up more useful for visitors who want a guided, service-oriented beauty experience rather than only product browsing. Newsis listed new company programs involving skincare, eyelashes, wigs, personal color, and gua sha massage, while AsiaToday reported additional experiences such as skin diagnosis, customized eyelashes, styling wigs, skin base makeup, auricular therapy, and personal color.⁵⁶ Taken together, the second pop-up appears designed around practical consultation and trial experiences: finding a flattering color palette, receiving makeup or styling direction, exploring hair and lash options, and trying wellness-related services.

The Beauty House also connects with the festival’s broader tourism strategy. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism described the 2026 Korea Beauty Festival as including a special exhibition of K-beauty tourism products involving nine online travel agencies, while VISITKOREA’s travel news said more than 800 K-beauty experience products are available through OTA-linked promotions until September 30.³⁴ AsiaToday named the participating OTA platforms as Mafengwo, WAUG, Konest, Creatrip, Klook, Traveloka, Trip.com, Hanyouwang, and KKday.⁶

That means KBF Beauty House can serve two different visitor needs. First, it is a physical event space for trying K-beauty experiences at HiKR Ground before July 19. Second, it works as a gateway to bookable beauty tourism products that extend beyond the pop-up’s closing date through OTA promotions. Han Yeo-ok, head of the Korea Tourism Organization’s International Tourism Content Office, was quoted as saying that visitors are experiencing “diverse K-beauty” and being brought in as loyal customers.⁵

How to Use This Guide Before You Go

Plan around the shorter KBF Beauty House deadline first. If the goal is to visit the physical pop-up, the confirmed period is June 24 to July 19, 2026, with hours from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at HiKR Ground.¹ The wider K-Beauty Festival continues through September 30, but that longer date applies to the overall festival and linked promotions, not necessarily to the on-site Beauty House experience.²

Once at the venue, the source-backed floor information suggests a practical route: use the 4th floor for K-pop-style makeup, hair, fashion advice, and second pop-up brand programs; use the 5th floor for personal color analysis, wedding styling consultation, makeup demonstrations, and fashion trend programming.⁴ The outdoor plaza is also listed as part of the Beauty House location, although the available source summaries do not specify which individual activities are placed there.¹

Visitors interested in paid or bookable tourism products should separate those from the pop-up visit. The OTA special promotion is described as continuing until September 30 and involving nine participating online travel agencies, with more than 800 K-beauty experience products mentioned by VISITKOREA travel news.⁴⁶ In practical terms, the Beauty House is the short-term in-person showcase, while the OTA promotion is the longer-running channel for booking beauty-related travel experiences.

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