Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Plastic Surgery

Because of people's perception of beauty being standardize by women on tv, magazines and billboard, women don't think they are beautiful enough to be compared to all these models and actors.

Bae Dal-mi never removes her makeup for 2 years because she wants to look perfect all the time and she wants to have plastic surgery on 10 different places. (Oddity Central, 2011)

"At first, I pushed back. I tried to fit in. I made multiple trips to Korea’s seemingly endless makeup stores, only to find there was no makeup for me: My skin was too dark. “No, no — very, very dark,” the saleswomen would say, fervently nodding their heads as they escorted me toward the face washes or nail polishes that I could actually use." (Perez, 2013)

In Korea, it's a common practice and if you don't look good or dress up nicely, you will be look down upon.

Here comes plastic surgery.

Plastic surgery advertisements in Korea are all over public places. (Daily News, 2013)

"The only thing you have to worry about is how to explain this to your children." (抓虱母相咬-ladisay, 2012)

In this article - Asia's ideal beauty: Looking Caucasian, Dr. Youn (2013) starts the article with how the mother of a girl brought her to his clinic and started to talk about how her daughter is ugly and wanted her to have plastic surgery. What causes this obsession of "beauty" in Korea? Does it starts with the idol groups and fashion models on tv?

Everyone is going to look the same if they are so persistent with being perfect.
They all look different before they had been given a "makeover". (koreaBANG, 2013)

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