Is a one-hour makeup lesson worth the time on a short trip to Korea?

Yes, if what you want from the trip is to look like yourself at your best while you are here—and to still know how when you get home. One hour is short enough to fit a Busan day and long enough for the correction that makes the rest of the photos feel fair.

What the hour buys

Not a certificate. A face you are willing to be seen in. Beginners get the steps slowed down, the amount of product fixed, and the relief of “oh, that is why it never looked like the picture.” You spend the rest of the day wearing the proof.

Why not give that hour to another sight

Sights stay in the camera roll. The lesson stays in your hand. If the trip is already short, that is the argument for doing it now: you will not recreate this attention at home. Book the hour, or the shorter eye and brow course, on a day you are in Busan, and arrive with skincare only so the time stays yours.