13 Best Korean Serums to Get That Flawless Supermodel Glow

1. Best Smoothing K-Beauty Serum

Smooth your skin and maintain a youthful glow with this peat-infused serum from Belif. But hold up, WTF is peat — the organic, decaying compound found in bogs — doing in your skin care? Good question, but hear us out. Romans and Egyptians had used this ingredient for years to help heal wounds and even preserve bodies after passing. As weird as it sounds, if the natural chemicals in peat can keep a mummy looking hella fine for centuries, just imagine how bomb your skin will be looking.

Where to buy: $60, Sephora

2. Best Korean Regenerating Serum

When ginseng is considered to be "heaven-grade," we better get angelic complexions after using it. Thankfully, The Face Shop's Regenerating Serum delivers on its promise. Ginseng has been found to lighten the skin, which is a major help for those with hyperpigmentation and sunspots. This serum also works wonders when it comes to tightening skin. No bags or sags here!

Where to buy: $35.44, Amazon

3. Best Korean Serum for Calming Skin

Propolis is the weird sticky residue that bees carry with them from plants. Surprisingly, it has some mega benefits when it comes to your face. Propolis has been shown to cut out inflammation, protect your vitamin C levels, and give your skin an antioxidant boost. Whether you're dealing with sucky cystic acne (ugh, we feel you) or oversensitive skin (we feel you there, too), this formula is definitely one to keep on your bathroom counter. Grab a bottle of this COSRX Propolis Light Ampule and help whip your skin into shape, girl!

Where to buy: $19.45, Amazon

4. Best Moisturizing Korean Serum

Tbh we don't really get how spending so much time in the water can be so drying. Summertime is filled with pool parties, days at the beach, and trips to the river, so why does our skin suffer? You can thank excessive chlorine, salt water, and extra UV rays for that. To make sure your face is staying moisturized, take it one step further than your go-to moisturizer and add in this K-beauty serum. Missha's Super Aqua Ultra Waterfull Gel is a refreshing cup of water for your skin that prevents dryness for 24 hours. So if you have one too many margs or get a little crispy out in the sun, this is one product to have in your summer "first aid kit."

Where to buy: $24, Amazon

5. Best Revitalizing Korean Serum

Pump some life back into your skin with a serum that really does it all. Skin&Lab's Dr. Color Effect Red Serum will erase and prevent fine lines and wrinkles, even out the texture of your skin, kick dryness to the curb, bring back brightness, and replenish moisture. It's filled with killer ingredients like fruit extracts, witch hazel, and wild yam to really go deeper than surface level and give your whole face an upgrade. Give it a few weeks and your glowing complexion will be comparable to Queen Yoncé's.

Where to buy: $32.99, Amazon

6. Best Multitasking Korean Beauty Serum

Sulwhasoo First Care Activating Serum EX is a product that's fit for the queen that you are. While this silky soft serum is pretty kick ass on its own, the real OMG moment comes when you use your other products alongside it. It's considered to be an "activating" serum because of its ability to make your other skin-care essentials more potent. It's packed with a mix of Korean herbs that'll give you results so good you'll be singing "I woke up like this." Every. Single. Morning.

Where to buy: $84, Nordstrom

7. Best Firming Korean Serum for Anti-Aging

BLITHE calls their Tundra Chaga Pressed Serum "a hybrid between a moisturizer and anti-polluaging serum." Anti-polluaging? Typo? No, so let's break it down. Only 10 percent of our skin's aging process is caused by genetics. Which means those wrinkles, lines, sags, bags, and spots come from outside sources (we're looking at you, pollution). While you can't completely avoid the things that harm our skin, you can throw major shade at them with a product that'll keep them at bay. Enter: anti-polluaging products. They fight against pollution and external sources that cause premature aging while giving your skin all the good stuff. Major shout out to scientists for these ~magical~ ingredients.

Where to buy: $49, Sephora

8. Best Brightening Korean Serum for Age Spots

Korean beauty brands are often well known for their dedication to high-quality, result-driven ingredients. This means you won't find things like parabens, tar colorant, animal-derived ingredients, mineral oil, talc, paraffin, or polyacrylamide in The Face Shop's White Seed Brightening Serum. It works for all skin types, but it gives special attention to babes with dull skin. If your face is feeling a little lackluster, smoothing on a layer of this will restore its tone and plump it back out. It's a complexion saver that should be in every makeup bag, because, let's be real, your skin only deserves the best.

Where to buy: $18.25, Amazon

9. Best Firming Korean Beauty Serum

The word "snail" might be the last thing you want to see on your skin-care product labels. But we can assure you as weird (and gross) as it sounds, snail mucin is a potent ingredient that kicks signs of aging in the butt. K Collection's Snail Intensive Helix Mucin Anti Aging Serum can help firm, brighten, smooth, and hydrate your complexion. After slathering it on for a couple weeks, you'll be more shook by the results than what's actually in the serum.

Where to buy: $17.99, Amazon

10. Best Serum for Glowing Skin

Vitamin C and hyaluronic acid are like the Gigi and Kendall of the skin-care world. They're fab on their own, do equally cool things, but work fabulously when paired together (hey, we think it's a pretty good comparison). Vitamin C helps brighten and defend against harmful UV rays and other nasty free radicals, while hyaluronic acid plumps and hydrates like no other. Seoul Ceuticals Day Glow Serum partners these two together for a killer combo that not only helps with anti-aging, but can clear breakouts and shrink pores.

Where to buy: $16.01, Amazon

11. Best Rejuvenating K-Beauty Serum

Water is great and all, but what about bamboo sap? For a replacement that's even more hydrating than H2O, this Amorepacific Moisture Bound Rejuvenating Serum's got what ya need. Infused with some pretty rad skin-care technology, this mixture releases all its fabulous nutrients over the course of 24 hours. It helps support your skin's natural antioxidants, fights aging, fixes uneven texture, improves your skin's moisture levels, and doesn't contain parabens, sulfates, or phthalates. Don't settle. Hydrate, protect, and maintain a flawless face with a serum that has this extensive of a resumé.

Where to buy: $100, Sephora

12. Best Soothing Korean Serum for Acne-Prone Skin

Cystic acne, hormonal breakouts, constant zits, and you know… any kind of blemish, in general, is the worst. When it comes to a great skin-care routine, anti-aging is fab and all, but if a product can also keep acne at bay, sign us up. Skin1004's Madagascar Centella Asiatica Ampoule just so happens to fit that bill. Centalla asiatica is a plant that's been found to heal wounds, and more specifically, problems with skin. Some studies have discovered that it stimulates collagen production and the development of blood vessels. But you can leave the science behind it to the formula, you just have to smooth a layer on after washing your face before applying moisturizer and voilà! Gorgeous skin.

(Side note: If you're wondering WTF an "ampoule" is. It's just a serum with a higher concentration of all the ingredients your skin wants and needs. It maximizes the benefits and leaves you with even better results.)

Where to buy: $17.59, Amazon

13. Best Hydrating Korean Beauty Serum

Our gal pal hyaluronic acid is back in this cheeky serum bottle. This skin care ingredient of the gods can literally hold 1,000 times its weight in water in one molecule — talk about serious hydration. Elizavecca Hell Pore Control Hyaluronic Acid Serum is chock-full with this essential acid. The bottle's size is TSA-approved, so when you're jet setting around this summer you can get an instant boost of hydration wherever you are.

Where to buy: $9.30, Amazon

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