Cosmetics Manufacturers by Region

Which region has the most cosmetics manufacturers?

Gyeonggi-do. Of 4,157 registrations of cosmetics manufacturers, 1,658 (39.9%) are registered there. Incheon has 457 registrations, and Seoul has 439 registrations.

How concentrated are cosmetics manufacturers in the Seoul capital area?

61.4%. Seoul, Gyeonggi-do and Incheon hold 2,554 registrations of cosmetics manufacturers.

Within the capital area, Gyeonggi-do and Incheon each have more than Seoul. Seoul has 439 registrations of manufacturers (10.6%) but 10,405 registrations of the responsible seller business (화장품책임판매업), which is 36.7% of all responsible sellers.

Which regions outside the Seoul capital area have the most cosmetics manufacturers?

Chungcheongbuk-do. With 225 registrations (5.4%), it has the most outside the capital area, followed by Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City with 175 and Chungcheongnam-do with 167.

The province or metropolitan city with the fewest manufacturers is Sejong, with 27 registrations. All 16 provinces and metropolitan cities have manufacturer registrations.

How do cosmetics manufacturers divide across regional groups?

The Seoul capital area has 2,554 registrations, followed by the Yeongnam region with 605 and the Chungcheong region with 518. The Yeongnam region figure combines Busan, Daegu, Ulsan, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and Gyeongsangnam-do.

Which regions have the highest share of cosmetics manufacturers?

Chungcheongbuk-do. Of its 871 entries across all cosmetics business types, 225 (25.8%) are manufacturers. The national average is 12.7%.

Seoul is lowest at 4.0%. The share shows only whether manufacturing or selling has more registrations within a region, and it is a different value from output.

Which cities, counties and districts have the most cosmetics manufacturers?

Namdong-gu, Incheon. It has 203 registrations of manufacturers, followed by Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do (139) and Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do (112).

The top 30 are in Top Cosmetics Manufacturing Areas.

What should you watch for when reading cosmetics manufacturers by region figures?

The location is the city, county or district written in the registration list. The list does not show which address a company registered when its head office and factory are in different regions.

The figures are registration counts, not output or employee numbers. Nothing in this data supports saying that a region with more registrations has larger production.

The registration list does not state why manufacturers cluster in a region. Korea Cosmetics Safety Information Group has not estimated a reason.

How were the cosmetics manufacturers by region figures counted?

We counted the registration list retrieved on October 4, 2026 through the cosmetics manufacturer information function of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety dataset "Cosmetics Information" on Korea's Public Data Portal. The list holds the business type, company name, registration (permit) date, and the city, county or district of the location.

• The list retrieved has 32,927 entries. Lines with the same company serial number and business type (177 entries) were counted once, leaving 32,750 entries.
• Figures count business registrations and notifications. A company registered as both a manufacturer and a responsible seller counts as 2.
• Lines whose location used a former administrative name (Jeollabuk-do 14, Jeollanam-do 18, Gangwon-do 9, Gwangju 12) were merged under the current name.
• The latest registration date is October 2, 2026. Totals and shares were calculated by Korea Cosmetics Safety Information Group by counting the list.