A 26-year-old Gold Coast man accused of a brutal "coward's kick" that rendered a Korean student unconscious has been remanded in custody.

Cameron South, of Labrador, turned himself into Southport police station on Thursday afternoon, just as police publicly released shocking security footage that showed a man kicking the young international student in the head in an unprovoked attack outside a karaoke bar.

He did not appear when his case was mentioned in Southport Magistrates Court on Friday morning, where he was remanded in custody to reappear in February.

No application for bail was made.