Biyosekkai

There’s a founder’s story behind Biyosekkai that actually matters to the product. Jung Sunghoon spent close to two decades on the salon floor — thirteen years of it directing a salon — and another five inside a Japanese scissor specialist before starting his own brand in 2007. That résumé shows up in the work: someone who has cut hair all day knows where a handle digs in and where an edge stops behaving, and those are the details a maker either gets right or doesn’t. The brand name itself is borrowed Japanese, roughly “beauty world,” and the operation runs out of Gwacheon-si, just south of Seoul.

Steel and how they build

Biyosekkai imports Japanese steel plate and finishes each pair by hand, with part of the range built on VG10 and AUS-10 grades. The work is split among craftsmen who each specialize in one stage of production rather than one person seeing a pair through start to finish — a setup that tends to raise the consistency of the parts that are hardest to do well, like the edge and the ride.

The range and who it suits

The catalogue covers cutting scissors, thinners, and dedicated left-handed builds. The cutting work leans toward blunt, slide, and point cutting, with thinners for volume and texture control and finer pairs for detail finishing — a spread that fits a stylist who wants one maker for most of the kit. Pricing sits mid-range, roughly 200 to 400 dollars, helped by selling direct through their own store rather than through a chain of distributors. For South Korean shears, it’s a credible, stylist-grounded option, even if independent reviews outside Korea remain thin.