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[The Floating World]

topic in Korea! Good for them. If it makes you feel better gfi I say!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/world/asia/in-south-korea-plastic-surgery-comes-out-of-the-closet.html?_r=2&ref=health

[Died By Bear]

[reactionary]

How do these people become English teachers? OP, I'd like to meat you. I mite be able to teech you a thing or too.

[PeteJB]

Live and let live. That's my motto!

[Underwaterbob]

Like I replied in the exact same thread in the Current Events Forum:

Didn't it come out of the closet years ago with the horrific movie about the fat girl who has [enough] surgery [to realistically probably kill herself] then gets her man and becomes successful by singing Blondie's "Maria"?

[eamo]

Cosmetic surgery is just another status symbol in Korea....like Louis Vitton bags and Benz-uh..........the stigma of plastic surgery didn't take long to disappear because it's something the 'winners' of Korean society get done.

It's just another way to publicly show you're not poor.

[komerican]

As countries become wealthier, growing middle class, and as technology �progresses� it's not surprising that you're going to see these excesses.

Any surgery is dangerous but I heard that the jaw surgeries can affect chewing later on in life

Actually the biggest countries for PS are the US, China, India, Brazil, etc...When I lived in the West it was always mind boggling how some women would inject collagen into their lips. Also, westerners seem to be addicted to getting suntans. It's called "getting some color". I saw a British TV show that followed two women as they tried to get "color". The program showed how they were seriously damaging their skin. But they were just so desperate to change their skin color and basically loathed their natural skin color.

JMO, but if changing your skin color, as opposed to eye color, were a surgical procedure, I don't think it's unreasonable to speculate that massive numbers of westerners would get it given how many now try to get color now. I once asked this UK chick about this and she said it was a kind of status symbol, to say you went on �holiday� and that getting a tan made her more confident and better looking.

[edwardcatflap]

The problem is most women who have plastic surgery never want to leave it at just one operation and if successful, they immediately start thinking about what they can have next. Even if they have enough done to look perfect while they're young, they're going to start tinkering again when they hit middle age. Eventually they'll look like all women who have had too much stuff done. A bit like burns victims.

[Squire]

The tan thing in the UK is ridiculous. It's the reason so many girls peak at around 19 and go massively downhill in their early twenties. They start looking far older than they are

The Korean way of staying out of the sun clearly works. Lots of women here around the age of thirty still look in their early twenties

[The Floating World]

[bekinseki]

While fake tans are totally retarded, and anyone who wastes money on tanning booths and spray-on tans deserves to be sterilised (don't worry, the UV rays will probably do it for them), they aren't a permanent disfigurement like plastic surgery.

[Squire]

[Mix1]

Few people can look in a mirror and say "Perfect!" Many of us want what we don't have or can't have. We now live in an age where it is possible to make minor or drastic changes to our appearance, and there are positives and negatives about that.

The Korean obsession with plastic surgery is slightly unique in that much of it revolves around removing the traditional Korean features of the face. They get procedures for rounder eyes, pointy nose, shaven jawline, forehead implants, cheekbone shaving, etc. In my opinion that's a shame because there's nothing inherently wrong with looking Korean, but many have skewed their standards of beauty towards other measures.

Ironically, now the Korean "look" IS the plastic surgery look, since many in the public eye (actors, singers, models) have had full on plastic surgery makeovers. So now there are many who think that is how Koreans actually look in real life but that's rarely the case. The doctors all use similar techniques and the customers all want almost the same features, so it creates a generic look. Whenever someone tells me how beautiful one of these cut and paste pop icons are, I just think "yeah, she has a great doctor for sure."

To each his own, but one thing that bugs me is the goldfish eye look. Where the doctor peeled up too much skin and they look expressionless and constantly surprised. In that case it was usually where they didn't fork out enough money to go to a good doctor. The ultra pointy nose with stretched nostrils and the forehead dome implant is nasty too.

[happiness]

ive seen those ads but im guessing its all in bad english, theres no korean explanation, just those stickers everywhere and the kids saying the phrase in bad enlgish

nothing will change

im guessing some focus group is losing money to ps clinics so they made this....