But how does this happen? I believe that one of the reason is people could get pretty in an easier and faster ways. There is also another reason to prove that why plastic surgery is getting famous now. Based on an article that wrote by Ahmad.M, 'What K-Pop has to do with South Korea's Plastic Surgery Obsession', he said that the western beauty (caucasian) has permeated across virtually all international beauty market, through advertisement, pop star, hollywood, and movie. That's mean "western" equals to the word "beautiful". Western face feature are usually with long sharp nose, eyes with double eye lids, prominent jaws and high cheek bones. In addition, as the technology has getting improve, the price of plastic surgery is getting cheaper, safer, better, recovery faster had increase the its popularity to the world. The rise of K-pop can also consider as another reason people will go through plastic surgery.
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| Girls Generation. |
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| Before & After |
The most requested face at plastic surgery offices.
Actress/Model Kim Tae-Hee
Even some part of South Korea parents encourage their children to get plastic surgery. Based on an interview article 'South Korean Parents Are Making Their Kids Get Plastic Surgery' by Standen.C, I found that some of the mother will pay for their daughter to get for a surgery. Eyes and nose job are the most common part that people will probably do and it's consider as the "basics". They do believe the prettier person will get more benefit. Even some jobs are only required for people who did plastic surgery. Everyone seems like want to get benefit by using their appearance and this is how the culture has made it to normal.
There's a case study to proof that most of the women in korea has probably had their face done. South Korea has the highest rate of people has gone through plastic surgery compare to others country. The average years is among 19 to 49 years old. According to the article, Koreans complain about picture of 20 Miss Korea 2013 finalist were posted on Reddit was a encouragement for user to go under the knife as Asian nation's growing trend. 20 beauty queens almost have the same feature such as big eyes, small face, tiny button noses, pointed chin, same hair colour, and etc. As you can see that, these 20 pageants were looking so familiar with each other.
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| 20 Miss Korea 2013 finalist |
Research & References:
Ahmad.M. (2013) What K-Pop Has To Do With South Korea's Plastic Surgery Obsession. [online] Available at:http://jezebel.com/what-k-pop-has-to-do-with-south-koreas-plastic-surgery-573424674 [Accessed at:30 July 2013]
Willet.M. (2013) Korea's Plastic Surgery Obsession Is A Glimpse Into The Future [Photos]. [online] Available at:http://www.businessinsider.com/korea-is-obsessed-with-plastic-surgery-2013-5?op=1 [Accessed at: 30 July 2013]
Standen,C. (2013) South Korean Parents Are Making Their Kids Get Plastic Surgery. [online] Available at:http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/south-korean-parents-are-making-their-kids-get-plastic-surgery [Accessed at:30 July 2013]
Nolan.S. (2013) Has plastic surgery made these beauty queens all look the same? Koreans complain about pageant 'clones' . [online] Available at:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2314647/Has-plastic-surgery-20-Korean-beauty-pageant-contestants-look-Pictures-contest-hopefuls-goes-viral.html [Accessed at:30 July 2013]
Femalewallpaper. (2013) Kim Tae-Hee. [Images online] Available at:http://femalewallpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/kim-tae-hee.html [Accessed at:30 July 2013]
Olddoobybrain. (2013) Korean Plastic Surgery Before and After. [Images online] Available at:http://www.doobybrain.com/2013/01/12/korean-plastic-surgery-before-and-afters/ [Accessed at:30 July 2013]
Joonle4ever. (2012) SNSD Jenie Japanese ver. [Images online] Available at:http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/girls-generation-snsd/images/15368247/title/snsd-genie-japanese-ver-photo [Accessed at:30 July 2013]
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