# About Seoul Beauty Salon Facts

> An independent reading guide to Seoul public beauty-business records.

The source is a business-permit register. Read its reporting lag and status definitions before comparing districts.

Written by the Gyeonggi Beauty Network editorial team on October 26, 2026. Canonical address: https://seoulsalonfacts.org/about.

## How does Seoul Beauty Salon Facts edit information?

Preserve source definitions, distinguish calculations and leave unresolved fields blank.

The editorial team checks the original public pages and keeps an aggregate snapshot with retrieval dates. A “ready” source file means the record was acquired; publication also requires content and interface review.

## Which sources does Seoul Beauty Salon Facts use?

Seoul Open Data Plaza supplies the permit register, while government guidance explains licensing and reporting.

The Public Data Portal metadata is a second description of the same register, not an independent second survey. Easy Law, Government24, Q-net and the current immigration-law reference address different procedural questions.

## What does Seoul Beauty Salon Facts publish?

District and business-type aggregates without business-level identifiers.

The CSV is processed to aggregates in memory. Business names, contact details, exact locations and personal details are not copied into the public snapshot. Source labels outside the four main beauty categories remain “other”; an unverified combined-beauty category is not filled with zero.

## How are Seoul Beauty Salon Facts corrections handled?

Report the page, source date and disputed field through the contact email in the footer.

Source updates can change prior aggregate results. Retrieval date, latest row-update date and the period measured are separate fields. Historical records with implausible early dates are excluded from the default series beginning in 2000 and are described in the integrity notes.

## Where do these numbers come from?

- [Seoul beauty business permit data](https://data.seoul.go.kr/dataList/OA-16063/S/1/datasetView.do) - Seoul Metropolitan Government
- [Seoul beauty permit metadata and reuse terms](https://www.data.go.kr/data/15094774/fileData.do) - Seoul Metropolitan Government / Public Data Portal
- [Beauty licence eligibility](https://www.easylaw.go.kr/CSP/CnpClsMainBtr.laf?ccfNo=1&cciNo=2&cnpClsNo=1&csmSeq=1009&menuType=cnpcls&popMenu=ov) - Ministry of Government Legislation
- [Beauty business reporting and change reports](https://www.easylaw.go.kr/CSP/CnpClsMainBtr.laf?ccfNo=2&cciNo=2&cnpClsNo=1&csmSeq=1009&popMenu=ov) - Ministry of Government Legislation