Unix

Unix is a Korean beauty-appliance brand that started in 1978 with hair dryers and has stayed in that narrow field for more than four decades: tools that dry, straighten and style hair. The company behind it, UNIX Co., Ltd., is based in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, and sells to salons and consumers alike, with a catalogue running from ionic dryers to curling irons and air stylers.

The domestic range, from the UN-B1691 folding ionic dryer to the Air Shot styler, sells through its own online shop and Korean retail partners, while exports follow Korean beauty into Japan with a localised site. At Maison&Objet in Paris the hair care devices were singled out among the Korean goods at the KIDP’s Design Korea booth, the products that drew the K-beauty audience.