South Koreas growing obsession on plastic surgery
Favesue evaluated South Korean's plastic surgery as, once I saw a picture of an advertisement for plastic surgery at a subway station in Seoul. It had at least 10 pictures of "afters" of beautiful young women. However, what really struck me was that they all looked alike. All the girls want the same look. There is no individuality. And perfectly normal, beautiful girls with no deformities go to plastic surgeons to achieve that look. If you look at girl groups in Korea all the girls tend to look alike. You don't see that uniformity among the men idol groups. Of course they are handsome young men, but I can't see a standard look. As a westerner it is hard to understand this obsession. But in a country like Korea, were beauty is highly valued, it is a way of life. To apply for a job you need to send a picture, and education is not the only thing that they are looking at when it comes to women. I think the difference between Westerners and Asians is that Westerners will go to a plastic surgeon to fix certain parts of their body that they are not happy with. Asian girls will actually take pictures of their favorite celebrities and tell the plastic surgeon that they want to look like that celebrity, almost like they were getting a haircut. And the surgeon will not even bat an eye.
Casandra Lopez's perspective says, Do people know how harmful this type of obsession can be, emotionally and psycologically, for the kids, for people in general? These children are growing up basing their self-worth on other people's standards of beauty and whether or not those people approve of how they look when they could be focusing on more important things that matter to them. It's not normal. It's creepy. Extremely detrimental to kid's self-esteem. I say, screw that. We need to tell our kids to love themselves not just how they look, beauty is overrated, but for other traits they have that make them beautiful as a whole.
Jennifer Weinbaum said I can't see much difference either. If anything Choi's before picture looks a lot better than her after. She is even putting her head at an angle in the after picture. If she was in the same position I don't think she'd look that much different. Lighting, angle, SURGERY, whatever, I really find her before picture much more attractive. This is so sad what these women feel they have to do. Will anyone say it? It is not about their faces. It's about their insecurity, their inner feelings of not measuring up, of not being worthy of adoration and love. The majority of women in this world have to go through life not being as gorgeous as the super stars on TV. Many of them find caring friends, family and lovers, find ways to express themselves, and feel beautiful in their own unique, perfect way. What I see in these women who desperately need surgery are women who are going through intense emotional pain.
PANCAKES PANCAKES said Has anyone here seen this episode of The Twilight Zone, "Number 12 looks just like you"? The lead character turns 18 and with it she is FORCED to go under conversion. She's bright, intelligent, plain (but everyone around is pretty). She doesn't want to go under conversion surgery. She is told she doesn't but soon finds out its a lie and she will be forced against her will. She reads Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare all banned by her society. Distressed and heart broken she explains to her mother she loves who she is. The surgery ALSO CHANGES YOUR PERSONALITY. Her mother and friend (who is now changed) don't understand why she doesn't want to be beautiful. Her father underwent the conversion...and killed himself because he couldn't handle it. THE WESTERN WHITE MAN set the standard of beauty in the West and spread that standard through media and movies. Sadly China, Japan, S.Korea have internalized this----How many Koreans can psychologically handle not looking like themselves? 10, 20 years from now? 30? Minzy from 2NE1 a VERY popular K-pop group was called ugly and fat by Netizens. She had her nose done and lost weight she didn't need to. Her cute face and curvy figure....GONE. Bom Park also in 2NE1 has had so much surgery she got busted for smuggling pain killers from America. She's addicted to plastic surgery. Sad, so sad. Their ancestors must be turning in their graves.
According to Dr. Joseph Carter, Obsession in Plastic Surgery is extremely Dangerous. You can generally see all korean actress, pop stars and models are look alike. Their face shape, nose, chin all looks same like they are one person but they are different in real. This is just waste of money. Going under plastic surgery will not give you good looking baby. It's individual surgery thats why doctors in South Korea took it as business calling beauty surgery. All South koreans specially girls are doing wrong by going under plastic surgery. Every one in three girl/woman go through plastic surgery according to statistics which is horrible. Moreover plastic surgery may give you good look for some years but it accelerate skin aging which means after few years you will look and get more aging skin than normal period. Considering all these Plastic Surgery is Horrible choice. Stop beauty obsession and lead a normal life.
