Daiso Korea: what Koreans buy most, all ₩500 to ₩5,000 (Updated Nov 11, 2026)

Walk into a Daiso in Seoul and every shelf is packed with skincare, tissues and cute little things with tiny price tags. With tens of thousands of items, which ones are actually worth your money?

Everything at Daiso Korea costs between ₩500 and ₩5,000, and the items Koreans buy most are ₩1,000 wet wipes and ₩1,000 sheet masks. In beauty, the ₩5,000 VT PDRN toner was Daiso Mall’s number one product in the first half of 2026.

We are a team of Koreans living and working in Seoul. This list comes from the official sales ranking on Daiso Mall (Daiso’s Korean online shop), which we checked on Nov 11, 2026, plus Daiso’s annual reports and Korean news.

Daiso Korea prices: only ₩500 to ₩5,000

Daiso Korea uses fixed price points (균일가, gyunil-ga). According to Bizwatch (April 2026), every item sits between ₩500 and ₩5,000, and ₩5,000 is the ceiling.

Look at the bottom and top rungs. A small toilet paper roll is just ₩500, while the toner and toner pads sit at the ₩5,000 ceiling.

So if you see a similar item elsewhere for ₩8,000 or ₩15,000, Daiso almost certainly has a cheaper version under ₩5,000. That is why Koreans tend to check Daiso before buying anywhere else.

What Koreans buy most (the Daiso Mall ranking)

On Daiso Mall, every product card shows a purchase counter, for example 구매 97만+ (bought over 970,000 times). We wrote these numbers down from the sales ranking page on the morning of Nov 11, 2026.

The top three bars are household goods, the rest are beauty products. The very top is not tourist stuff at all, just everyday tissues.

This matches Daiso Mall’s 2025 report. According to Wikitree, the 에끌라 깨끗한 물티슈 wet wipes (₩1,000, 150 sheets) were voted the best value item two years in a row. The 뽑아쓰는 키친타월 kitchen towels were the most repurchased item, with a repeat rate of around 30%.

The Daiso beauty items everyone is after

Beauty is the main reason visitors go to Daiso. According to the Daiso Mall 2025 report quoted by Cosmorning, the three best-selling products from January to November 2025 were all beauty items, with the VT sheet mask at number one.

Every item below was on the Daiso Mall ranking on Nov 11, 2026, and the prices are the prices on that day.

One more item was on the ranking that day: the 바이 리얼베리어 세라베이스 크림 50 ml moisturizer (₩5,000). This cream comes in several versions, so check the version name on the box before you buy.

The VT PDRN toner deserves a special mention. According to the Korean outlet News-wa (September 2026), it was Daiso Mall’s number one product in the first half of 2026 and sold out in many stores.

The choice keeps growing too. Newsis (March 2026) reported that the number of beauty brands at Daiso rose from 26 in 2023 to about 160, with 1,700 products.

Daiso Myeongdong: opening hours and tax refund

Both Daiso stores in Myeongdong open 10:00–22:00, according to the Daiso Mall store finder (checked Nov 11, 2026). Both list a tax refund service (텍스리펀드).

Other stores do not always keep the same hours. The same page lists stores that open at 09:00, so look up the store name first.

For the tax refund, the main condition under Korean rules is spending at least ₩15,000 on one receipt. At Daiso that means at least three ₩5,000 items in one go. The full process is in our guide to tax refunds in Korea.

Daiso Korea or Daiso Japan?

Same name, but two different companies now. According to KED Global (December 2023), the Korean company Asung HMP bought the entire 34.2% stake held by Daiso Industries of Japan, so Daiso Korea is fully Korean-owned.

The products differ too. Many of the Korean beauty brands in the list above are lines made just for Daiso Korea, so do not expect to find the same items at a Daiso elsewhere.

Korean words you will see at Daiso

Summary

• Everything at Daiso Korea costs ₩500 to ₩5,000.
• What Koreans buy most: ₩1,000 wet wipes, ₩1,000 kitchen towels and the ₩1,000 VT PDRN sheet mask (Daiso Mall, Nov 11, 2026).
• The beauty favorite: the ₩5,000 VT PDRN toner, number one on Daiso Mall in the first half of 2026.
• Daiso Myeongdong opens 10:00–22:00 and offers tax refunds, minimum ₩15,000 per receipt.

Before you go, screenshot the Korean product names in the table above to show staff, and if you want to ask about anything at Daiso, leave a comment or ask on the forum.