| Item — the sticker you saw | $13.60 |
| Shipping (under the $49 bar) | $7.99 |
| Tariff, 15% | $2.04 |
| Delivered | $23.63 |
A $13.60 sticker became a $23.63 bill. The other $10.03 sat below the line.
Pre-launch issue Nº 001Korean skincare, priced honestly
The number that matters is the one that leaves your card: price plus shipping plus tariff. K-Save compares that delivered total across five Korean-skincare stores (진짜 가격, the real price) and sends you to whichever store actually wins.
iOS & Android · launching 2026
Korean skincare ships from Korea or Hong Kong, and since the US ended its duty-free exemption, every parcel pays a tariff. Every store still draws the line differently: free-shipping thresholds, flat rates, how the duty lands on your bill. K-Save does this arithmetic for every product, every store, every day. Here it is for the same bottle, twice:
| Item — the sticker you saw | $13.60 |
| Shipping (under the $49 bar) | $7.99 |
| Tariff, 15% | $2.04 |
| Delivered | $23.63 |
A $13.60 sticker became a $23.63 bill. The other $10.03 sat below the line.
| Item — the lower sticker | $9.99 |
| Shipping (flat, under the $60 bar) | $5.00 |
| Tariff, 15% | $1.50 |
| Delivered | $16.49 |
Same bottle, $7.14 less delivered: 30% off the other store's real bill. Even this sticker hid $6.50 of shipping and duty.
Worked example with real store rules, not live prices
K-Save runs this receipt for every product, across all five stores, before you spend a cent.
The shipping-and-tariff rulebook K-Save maintains per store, US-normalized. Rules change; the app re-checks daily.
Type a brand or a bottle. The catalog covers the products people actually buy.
Item + shipping + tariff = delivered. Five stores, same anatomy, best total crowned.
One tap out to the winning store. You pay them directly; K-Save never touches checkout.
A short skin quiz (type, concerns, sensitivity) builds a five-step routine from the catalog, each step chosen for how it's positioned for your skin, each priced at its best delivered total. An optional selfie refines the read.
It's read once for tone, undertone and visible concerns, then discarded: never stored on our servers, never used to build a profile of your face. Skip it and the quiz alone builds the routine.
A comparison engine: a mobile app (iOS & Android) that computes the delivered cost of Korean skincare across five stores and routes ready-to-buy shoppers to the store that wins.
Every product page ends in a click-out to the retailer's own site, affiliate-tracked where a program exists. The retailer owns checkout, payment and fulfilment; K-Save never resells or intermediates.
Network product datafeeds, refreshed daily, normalized to USD, with the shipping-and-tariff rulebook applied per store. Stale feeds are flagged, never silently shown.
US-based K-beauty buyers: price-sensitive enthusiasts and quiz-led newcomers arriving at the exact moment they've decided what to buy.
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