Daiso Korea Top 300 Weekly Ranking — The #1 Bestseller Switched From Tissues to Skincare (August 2026)

Last month we took Daisomall’s weekly sales ranking, all 300 places of it, and pulled it apart. The closing line was that the real value of this data would only show up when we ran the same list again.

So we did. July 29 and August 31, 2026 — same page, same method, 300 items each time. Lining the two lists up product by product forced us to rewrite our own opening sentence. In July it read “the #1 bestseller is not cosmetics, it is tissue paper.” Five weeks later, cosmetics took the top spot.

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What knocked tissues off the top?

Mommy Care Sea Grape Skin Pack, 80 sheets, 5,000 won — the most expensive tier Daiso sells. It carries 17,168 reviews. And on July 29 it was nowhere in the top 300.

🏆 Daisomall weekly ranking, full top 10 (August 31, 2026)

#	Product	Price	Category	Rating & Reviews	July
1	Mommy Care Sea Grape Skin Pack 80 ct	5,000 won	Skincare	★4.9 · 17,168	not listed
2	Hello Daily Facial Tissues 280 ct	1,000 won	Tissue	★4.8 · 19,731	1st
3	Foam-type Magic Cleaner 550 ml	3,000 won	Cleaning	★4.7 · 4,983	not listed
4	Living Pull-out Kitchen Towel 150 ct	1,000 won	Tissue	★4.9 · 19,902	2nd
5	Embossed Wet Wipes 110 ct	1,000 won	Wet Wipes	★4.8 · 3,824	8th
6	Ekkla Clean Wet Wipes (Cap-type) 150 ct	1,000 won	Wet Wipes	★4.8 · 25,254	3rd
7	Tempo Roll Toilet Paper 24 m	500 won	Toilet Paper	★4.9 · 4,769	6th
8	VT PDRN Radiance Sheet Mask 1 sheet	1,000 won	Skincare	★4.9 · 7,524	5th
9	Corn Mesh Scourer	1,000 won	Cleaning	★4.8 · 12,666	9th
10	Urine Scale & Limescale Remover 500 ml	3,000 won	Cleaning	★4.7 · 15,367	7th

Only two names are new: #1 and #3. The other eight were all in July’s top 10 and simply slid down a place or two. The skin pack and the cleaner cut into the line, and everybody behind them stepped back one.

So “cosmetics took over the #1 spot” is only half true. What actually happened is that one cosmetic item wedged itself in front, and the scenery behind it did not move. Ranks 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are still paper and wipes.

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Which categories grew and which shrank?

Sorting all 300 items into 13 categories and putting the two months side by side shows exactly how the seasons move through this ranking.

📊 Daisomall weekly top 300 by category (August 31, 2026; July in brackets)

Category	Of 300	Share	In top 100	Median price	vs July
Skincare	66	22.0%	30	2,500 won	▲14 (52)
Cleaning & detergent	44	14.7%	16	2,000 won	▲3 (41)
Other household goods	43	14.3%	9	1,000 won	▲14 (29)
Tissue, wipes & toilet paper	28	9.3%	15	1,000 won	▲6 (22)
Makeup & beauty tools	28	9.3%	9	2,000 won	▲4 (24)
Storage & organising	21	7.0%	2	2,000 won	▲2 (19)
Hair, body, oral & hygiene	18	6.0%	5	2,000 won	▼11 (29)
Bags & disposables	14	4.7%	2	3,000 won	▼8 (22)
Supplements & quasi-drugs	14	4.7%	4	3,000 won	▼4 (18)
Kitchen & cookware	11	3.7%	2	2,000 won	▼3 (14)
Dehumidifiers & deodorisers	9	3.0%	5	1,000 won	▼10 (19)
Food	3	1.0%	0	1,500 won	— (3)
Insect control	1	0.3%	1	2,000 won	▼7 (8)

The heaviest losses are dehumidifiers and deodorisers (19 to 9) and insect control (8 to 1). Together those two categories fell from 27 summer items to 10. Skincare (+14) and other household goods (+14) took the space.

Tissue products actually grew, from 22 to 28. When a season leaves, consumables fill the gap — a structure you only see once you overlay two rounds.

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How summer left the list

Last month we called this ranking a seasonal calendar for Korean homes. Five weeks is not even one square on that calendar, but the leaving is already fully visible.

🌡️ Five weeks of summer retreat

Summer signal	July items · best rank	August items · best rank
Cooling items (cooling patches, ice mufflers)	6 · 26th	none
Mosquito products (coils, mats)	2 · 118th	none
Fruit fly traps & sprays	3 · 4th	1 · 16th
Mould removers	2 · 37th	1 · 116th
Dehumidifiers	12 · 10th	7 · 25th
Deodorisers	5 · 102nd	2 · 118th

Cooling and mosquito products vanished entirely, not one left. Insects and heat go first; damp only half leaves. That is exactly what Korea feels like at the end of August — the air conditioning is off, but the post-monsoon stickiness lingers.

The reshuffle inside the dehumidifier category is especially sharp. July’s 10th-place Zeolite dehumidifier fell to 117th, and the stand-type dehumidifier that sat at 52nd dropped to 296th. Meanwhile Ppossong Ppossong Dehumidifier 4P climbed from 181st to 25th. Demand shrank, and the product meeting it changed.

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The numbers hiding behind 9,999+

Last month we wrote that only 8 of the 300 items had crossed Daisomall’s display cap of 9,999+ reviews. On screen those eight all looked identical, so there was no way to tell which was the bigger steady seller.

This round we captured the uncapped review counts. It turns out the eight were nowhere near equal.

💬 Products with 10,000+ reviews, real order revealed (15 items)

Reviews	Product	Sales rank	Price	Rating
25,254	Ekkla Clean Wet Wipes (Cap-type) 150 ct	6th	1,000 won	★4.8
19,902	Living Pull-out Kitchen Towel 150 ct	4th	1,000 won	★4.9
19,731	Hello Daily Facial Tissues 280 ct	2nd	1,000 won	★4.8
17,168	Mommy Care Sea Grape Skin Pack 80 ct	1st	5,000 won	★4.9
16,680	VT Reedle Shot 100 Facial Boosting First Ampoule	152nd	3,000 won	★4.8
16,039	VT Reedle Shot 300 Facial Boosting First Ampoule	60th	3,000 won	★4.9
15,367	Urine Scale & Limescale Remover 500 ml	10th	3,000 won	★4.7
15,270	Madeca 21 Teca Solution Soothing Mist Toner 200 ml	27th	5,000 won	★4.9
14,278	Bonsep Vita C Freeze-dried Double Shot Ampoule Kit	12th	5,000 won	★4.8
13,453	VT PDRN Radiance Toner 200 ml	15th	5,000 won	★4.8
12,666	Corn Mesh Scourer	9th	1,000 won	★4.8
11,743	Personal Information Eraser 10 ml, Lavender	29th	1,000 won	★4.8
10,394	Baking Soda Hand-cloth Cleaning Tissues 100 ct	36th	1,000 won	★4.8
10,382	Neocell Alkaline Battery AA 16 ct	23rd	3,000 won	★4.8
10,217	Bonsep Retinol 2500 IU Wrinkle Shot Perfecter 15 ml	49th	5,000 won	★4.8

Two things stand out.

First, the review leader is not the sales leader. The most-reviewed item is the Ekkla wet wipes at 25,254, yet it sells at 6th. Against the corn scourer (12,666) — which looked identical on screen as “9,999+” — that is almost exactly double. You could never see that gap from the site.

Second, the items with many reviews but low ranks are nearly all cosmetics. VT Reedle Shot 100 has 16,680 reviews, 5th most on the entire list, yet sells at 152nd. Reviews are accumulated history; rank is this week’s sales. When the two diverge, it means the product sold heavily once and has cooled since.

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Detective Conan sits at 43rd — character goods finally arrived

Last month our evidence that tourist carts and local carts barely overlap was this: “zero character goods in the top 10, and the highest-ranked character product is a Disney wet wipe at 82nd.”

That sentence needs an update. The August list holds 11 Detective Conan stationery items, the best of them at 43rd.

All 11 Conan items are 1,000 to 1,500-won stationery: masking tape, pens, stickers, memo pads, pen cases. Ratings run 4.9 to 5.0 but review counts are only two or three digits. In other words, a batch of new releases sold at once — they are not steady sellers yet.

Overlay the art canvas climbing from 293rd to 133rd and the Twin Name Pen 3-pack from 284th to 162nd, and the picture resolves. Korean schools start their second semester at the end of August, a period known as gaehak. Stationery is moving into the space summer vacated.

🎒 New entries and big climbers in stationery and character goods

Product	August	July	Price
Detective Conan Masking Tape	43rd	not listed	1,000 won
Disney Mickey & Friends Wet Wipes	52nd	82nd	1,000 won
Detective Conan Acrylic Clip	72nd	not listed	1,500 won
F3 Art Canvas	133rd	293rd	1,000 won
Twin Name Pen Black 3P	162nd	284th	1,000 won
Disney Pull-out Kitchen Towel	216th	not listed	1,000 won
Detective Conan Square Zipper Bags	224th	not listed	1,000 won
Round Canvas Small 20 cm	288th	not listed	1,000 won

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Prices moved up one tier

Daiso still uses only six price points: 500, 1,000, 1,500, 2,000, 3,000 and 5,000 won. That structure has not changed. What changed is how the 300 items spread across it.

💰 Item count by price tier, versus July

Price	July	August	Change
500 won	13	10	▼3
1,000 won	122	111	▼11
1,500 won	5	6	▲1
2,000 won	67	64	▼3
3,000 won	59	57	▼2
5,000 won	34	52	▲18

Only the 5,000-won tier grew, and it grew 53%. The 19 items that left the other five tiers effectively moved into the top one. Average price across the 300 rose from 2,057 to 2,280 won, up 10.8%.

Of those 52 items at 5,000 won, 24 are skincare — ampoules, creams and toners, full-size products rather than single-use sachets. The sea grape skin pack that took first place belongs to this group. Daiso is pushing its 5,000-won line and it is selling.

That said, the median price in the top 20 is still 1,000 won. More expensive items appearing on the list is not the same as expensive items owning the top of it.

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Has anything changed for travellers?

Almost nothing — and that is the point of this price band.

The 500-won tier shrank from 13 items to 10, but 8 of those 10 are still skincare: capsule packs and sheet masks. While the seasons turned and half the list churned, this band held its ground.

✈️ Traveller picks from the August ranking — light, cheap and genuinely selling

Rank	Product	Price	Why
8	VT PDRN Radiance Sheet Mask (VT PDRN 광채 시트 마스크)	1,000 won	5th in July, 8th in August. The only sheet mask to hold a top-10 spot two months running
11	Egg Capsule Pack (에그 캡슐 팩)	500 won	11th in both months. The undisputed leader among capsule packs, 6,773 reviews
43	Detective Conan Masking Tape	1,000 won	This month’s new souvenir candidate, and it weighs nothing
82	Potato Capsule Pack	500 won	Mix the five capsule packs (egg, potato, volcanic ash, houttuynia, rice) into a gift set
123	Volcanic Ash Capsule Pack	500 won	Same line, for sebum and pores
148	Houttuynia Capsule Pack	500 won	Same line, for calming
186	Botanical Garden Aloe Fresh Soothing Mask Sheet	500 won	The cheapest sheet mask on the list. Good for late-summer skin
251	Rice Peeling Capsule Pack	500 won	Exfoliating. Takes up essentially no space
261	Disney Tarpaulin Bag, Check	500 won	Rated 4.9. A spare bag for when your luggage grows

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What two rounds of data taught us

Three sentences.

1. This ranking has two floors. The upper floor is nailed down — tissues, wipes, scourers, detergents. The lower floor churns by half every five weeks. Even the change at #1 was really just one item wedging in above the fixtures.
2. Seasons exit before they enter. Cooling and mosquito products fell to zero while not a single winter item arrived. Skincare and back-to-school stationery are filling the gap instead.
3. The traveller band ignores the seasons. Most 500-won items being skincare was true in July and true in August. Half the list can turn over and what belongs in your suitcase stays the same.

Previous editions

• July 2026 edition — the #1 bestseller was tissue paper, not cosmetics — the list this article measures against

Further reading

• What Koreans Actually Buy at Daiso — 2026 Bestsellers — Daisomall’s official half-year tally and the K-beauty sellouts
• How Daiso Became Korea’s National Store — Carts by Generation — the 4.5 trillion won, 1,600-store background
• Where Do Korean Teens Buy Cosmetics? Daiso vs Olive Young — why a 3,000-won mascara and a 50,000-won serum go in the same basket
• Where Koreans Shop Online — Coupang, Naver, Olive Young and Daisomall market share