98% of Korean Women Want Plastic Surgery, 46% Have It
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Nov 8, 2009 19:25 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Comparison, Fashion, Korea, Marketing, Plastic Surgery
A survey of Korean women in their 20s and 30s found 98% of those asked would have plastic surgery, money permitting, with only 2% objecting to the notion.
The same survey undertaken in 2003 found that 66% would undergo such surgery given a chance, whilst 21% objected to the notion and an additional 13% agreed more with the sentiment that “it’s what’s inside that counts.”
There are no official statistics available on the actual prevalence of cosmetic surgery in Korean society (although Korean women are widely thought to be the most surgically enhanced in the world), but an informal survey of 1,800 Seoul women by a Korean paper found 46% of those they asked admitted to having had facial cosmetic surgery.
Just what the real number is can only be guessed at – many are less likely to admit to such surgery in a face-to-face survey as used here, though equally it seems likely Seoul would have a more fashion-conscious populace, and of course this figure only includes facial operations. Whatever the case, it is certainly a large proportion.
A Korean lady saying “8 out of 10 have had surgey done.”
Source Sankei is unsparing:
“With piracy, fake goods, academic fraud and misrepresentation all rampant in Korean society, perhaps nobody really cares if their beauties are fakes too…”
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And plastic surgery.
Why do you say "of course this figure only includes facial operations" I have 3 ex-girlfriends from Seoul, and 2 of them have had their breasts surgically enhanced.
I think if we removed minor procedures such as eyelid surgery and circumcision off the list, the US would be top of the heap, but I could be wrong.
I was anti-plastic surgery but my Japanese wife was always unhappy with her nose. After 10 years I finally gave in and let her get it done, and she is SO happy with the result I wish I hadn't held her back before. It wasn't a huge change, IMHO, but she's over the moon with the way it turned out.
But some of these people who start out okay-looking and then get a complete face rebuild...I dunno. Guess it's their body, they can do what they please with it.
I like plastic beauty with face n body made from pvc in 1/8 scale
Lol, Koreans aren't very pretty unless they have plastic surgery.
if what matters is what is inside, then why get s surgery? yeah think about it before you giving us excuses ya possible fine ladies.
Because men don't give shit about the inside when they're looking for a girl. They don't care if the fugly ones are smart, funny and nice (except if they got money) they want pretty girls, regardless if they are backstabbing bitches.
Not all men are like that im afraid, as there is always an exceptionto every rule. But, yea, a depressing majority are just "thats hot, i wanna bang that" and dont think any further
Check out the movie Shi Gan (Time) by Kim Ki-duk. It's about the plastic surgery craze in S. Korea - not a documentary though.
Because there are so many good look celebrities everywhere in Korea, the average looking are now rated as shit ugly. So the shit ugly before are now not even girls.
So to balance it all out, plastic surgery may be needed.
Irony is a lot of those shit ugly koreans go to western countries and attract men like crazy.
I watched a Chinese one called 'dumplings' which was about the extreme lengths one middle aged Chinese woman went through to look younger.
... she ground up foetuses and put them in her dumplings - the fuller term the foetus the better >.<
But then she developed a rash and became very ugly and her husband went and screwed the lady who gave her the dumplings in hte first place haha.
Since beauty is relative, I suppose the net effect would be wasting a lot of money and making that 2% uglier.
With regards to the article main pic, that girl is popular actress PARK MIN-YOUNG. And with relevance to the topic, she is suspected of plastic surgery though she never admits it. You can tell from her childhood pics that she's had lots anyway...
Well, If she looks like that, so beautiful, even after plastic surgery, I won't mind. At least she hasn't been a man in her former life.
What I see is that the girls did a eye-, and nosejob and had a diet. But how's her body, is her body as hot as those of models? It's weird if she has that beautiful face but her body is not beautifully shaped as a model (think: short legs and fat in the middle).
Some of you don't have a heart. Ether that or you place materialism above everything. Some of you are just cynical and negative.
That makes since, after all people complain about the materialistic youth in japan.
It's all pollution of the soul.
Truth is, the inside will always out last whats on the outside.
Everyone one has there own opinion of what is beautiful. I think more now then every, society, culture and media influence that, so much so that people don't seem to have there own opinions anymore.
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The whole of Asia is (in varying degrees) just a huge cesspool of degeneration, tyranny, filth, nonjustice, antihuman, antifreedom ideals, made up of things toxic to the soul and to what it means to be human.
98% of Korean women want plastic surgery?? That just shows you right there. People have been turned into nonhumans. Incrementally. They have been dehumanized.
When people start WANTING to become plastic -- actually turn their bodies into fake material, and put on actual PHYSICAL masks on top of the fake mental, psychological, spiritual masks that people have carried (and intensified the use of) for who knows how long now, THEN you know it's all over.
"Life in plastic, it's fantastic.."
Fucking disgusting!
When I mentioned 'masks' just now, I was also thinking about those full character-suits people have started using as cosplay (cant remember what they're called).
Now THAT is sick! Just THINK of the psychological (and thus, spiritual) nature of that.
You don't have to fucking BE a Sigmund Freud or whatever to see how fucked up these things are.
The ruling Elite of this planet have over time turned large portions of humanity into pure filth... No, well Yes, but THESE people I wouldn't even call filth: They're not even HUMAN.
They've been reduced to (almost literally) plastic objects.
Nothing more than biological computer terminals!
WTF... !
Seriously - WHERE is the huge outcry ??
I am crying out right now.
This article... this behavior and pattern, is all the result of the work by Eugenicists; who want to degrade, defile, ruin and murder humanity.
I'm talking REAL TRUE Eugenics here -- not the BS watered-down crap that you can read about on Wikipedia.
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Q_Q kill yourself
Fake beauty is the worst.
Absolutely the worst.
Only if you are truley hideous should you ever get cosmetic surgery.
And even then, There is a limit to what you should do.
Natural beauty is best~<3
That woman being interviewed must have been the 2 out of 10...
when your bore an ugly child that's when you'll know ^^ too late i guess.
who wouldn't want a plastic surgery in Korea? it's 100% success rate garantie
LOL THIS IS STPUID WELL IM NOT SURPRISED, the author is porobly a japnese bias,
FOR UR INFO JAPAN AND TAIWAN has a higher surgery rate. LOL AND 46% HAS IT???LOOOOOOOOOOOL
Where are ur sources??And this is just a survey ,its not like its everyones vpoices in korea.LOL ,so much haters, ANd its just mostly the entertainment industry . AND it happens everywhere, u ppl who say they just do surgery etc, LOL ,go get surgery here and see if its easy, you think everyday ppl would just be gettting surgery. So bold. eh, japs, such ninjas.Always sneaking aorund popular korean stufffs like youtube, because their dominating the music scnene LOL.
I don't see a problem here. Obviously if you are looking at appearances, than what does it matter as long as it looks good?
Some ppl drink chemicals or pump drugs to get cut bodies, others, just pay $ and a couple of hours.
LoL funny topic.
I've read it from start to end.
let them do what they want. Its their bodies to start with anyway.
you got your own body. mind yourself instead.
there are tons of other countries out there to find partners to be with.
they just want to be happy for themselves.
if this is what they think to be an answer to their problems, then why not?
If you hate their race that much then you really have a big problem with yourself (talking about the racists).
talk first if you're really that perfect.
ps. I'm not perfect. just so damn funny how they could react extensively to this kind of topics.
Q_Q
true I agree to that.
“With piracy, fake goods, academic fraud and misrepresentation all rampant in Korean society, perhaps nobody really cares if their beauties are fakes too…”
Actually, beaury would be the least of my concerns of being fake from that list.
well japs always jealousy to korean..they tries to spread bad news like korean love do plastic surgery on the shows,but dont miror them self..they love do sex,wacth n making porns,try hide their shameness ..even under 15 do sexs..how shame!.ps im not korean but asian..
you're korean dog
You guys are fucking retarded. Double eyelids to become more westernized? BULL FUCKING CRAP. Then I guess I have fake double eyelids as a Korean? Someone here said that double eyelids are only natural in western races? You need to fucking eat shit.
NOBODY CARES what is on the inside if you look like a supermodel. Sad but true, I don't like the truth but then ask yourself if you really ACT what you believe in. Most people find out they are as shallow as the next person. Why do you like anime anyway? Isnt it because they are cute?
The inside should matter most because the outside will eventually get old.
P.S I think all you people are...
Yeah I find it ironic a tons of commenters here claim they want natural beauty in their 3D girls yet they're all over 2D girls. Who aren't pretty at all and not made to titillate. Yeah they're just average/fugly looking 2D women.
Note that this article is from Sankei, a right-wing newspaper with a history a publishing anti-Korean articles.
Wait, 2D > 3D but natural is better? something is wrong.
Actually while excessive surgery is obviously scary I don't see why a little surgery can't be alright.
I mean, cavemen would think our shaven men and women with make up are scary.
Good, we need more pretty people in the world.
I'm reasonably certain that 99% of all the posters in this thread who claim some bullshit "fact" or make some dumbass criticism about Korean women (ex. they're trying to look white!") have never even had a conversation with one. It's always funny to see a bunch of weaboo virgins try to explain Asian women based on their extensive backgrounds with 2d tits and silicone sex dolls.
Everyone is all "koreans are ugly" "korea is an ugly nation" yet I know korean models just as hot as japanese ones. In fact my favorite models are Aki Hoshino (Japanese) and Hwang Mi Hee (Korean). This coming from a japanese gravure maniac BTW. Japan and Korea both have fugly women and beautiful ones. Also considering how most japanese can't even tell koreans from japanese these comments are pretty much just bias. Also I don't think the otaku on this site can even be so picky in real life so shouldn't be acting so picky when they would pounce on any pussy they could get or have an overweight otaku girlfriend.
In other words, 98% Korean Women are ugly. -.-
I never did wonder about that special since circle lens were first created by koreans. The main plastic sugeries made in korea are those for the western eyelid and they aren't that expensive.
ultra-chrome, latex, and steel
I always thought Koreans are way hotter than Japanese.
This must be the cause.
Again, its the degree of 'plasic' surgery you consider to be plastic surgery. Many korean women and men get the "sanngghaprie" or double eye lid surgery to widen their wides.
Many Korean women also get nose jobs to look more western and white.
A few continue on and get cheek bone surgery and chin surgery.
A rare bunch get more.
Many, if not all Koreans think the first one is fine and will do it. More now think the second and even the third is okay.
Korean Americans (who do not get surgery) are quite beautiful.
A lot of mix races are usually good looking.
I always thought Koreans looked more bland and all alike than the Japanese.
Sure they're beautiful as hell, but they all look the same (no I'm not being racist against Asians in them all looking the same)
Btw to all you guys saying you hate fake and natural beauty all the way, why do you still watch porn? Every single one of those women has had surgery and photoshop. So don't be hypocrites.
Lust Love
Big difference
Go figure
21:23 Anon speaks the truth.
This IS why.
Be careful there, your japanese beauties most probably had plastic surgery too.
LOVE IS OVER
Truth but probably the same degree of operation.
The truth has been revealed.
Same here, dude.
I m never a fan of Koreans and never will be
They are dastardly bastard who steals others culture claiming it for their own without any speck of shame, /spit.
I m never a fan of their woman as well, I knew abt them being a nation of plastic long ago, atleaat Japan at worst is a nation of photoshopped womean
Someone is a little uptight aren't they? Demonizing a whole nation because of an unscientific survey? Believe me, you'll loosen up a bit when you get laid.
Sex isn't a cure-all for idiots, unfortunately
LOL the truth
Ok we got it man, now go suck the cocks you like so much.
To be honest, I don't care about plastic surgery of people I don't know.
I mean, when I look at pictures of pretty woman, it's not like I need to know her or judge what she does.
A picture only needs to reveal looks.
But if someone near me said that she wants to perform a plastic surgery, I'd say that she's pretty stupid and ignorant.
Man you must feel so good in your elitist pedestal.
Make that most people on Earth then. Make up and following fashion trends are all the same shit as surgery. You wanna fit the image of beauty one way or another. So yeah go claiming you like natural, but the truth must be you don't even consider the ugly chicks around you (or guys, whatever you are), acquaintances or not as potential lovers.
How would you know?
That's what you assume... No, I haven't said no to the more "normal" looking girls. And, yes I admit that there's a huge amount of peer pressure, especially for young women, but that doesn't mean they have to be as extreme to perform plastic surgery...
What should I know? you don't need to be a damn scientist to see 99% of women getting hair extensions/dye, all kinds of clothes hiding/complimenting their figure, make up to change the way their face looks, etc etc etc.
I don't assume shit when you yourself say "I'd say that she's pretty stupid and ignorant". Having surgery doesn't mean a woman is being extreme if nothing up there is extreme at all. Just because you find the first ones acceptable doesn't mean you can assume shit about women having surgery.
THIS IS MADNESS!
madness?
this is barbie !!
Brakfast? Fine, but where do we dine during dinner? Plastic Hell?
Lol'd
hmmm, dunno if want, i don't want my kids to fugly... but my
pen1sbrain say its ok if the girl is hot.well your kid can also take the surgery, who knows, maybe it's cheaper sometimes when you got one 9 and less riskier)
well your kid can also take the surgery, who knows, maybe it's cheaper sometimes when you got one ( and less riskier)
I'm a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie World.
I'm plastic, its fantastic!
Come and take my hand, and we will go nopan~
I'm freaking laughing at this. I started singing Barbie Girl without warning
come on Barbie, let's go party
Ah! Ah! Ah! Yeah!
Never though plastic surgery was a big deal...
It's like wearing makeup, albeit permanent, but nonetheless same.
If you don't plan to have children with your partner then I guess plastic surgery wouldn't matter a bit... but if you're going to have children probably you'll think a bit more.
I'm not against plastic though, as long as the other party revealed it early in the relationship... And I hope that the plastic surgery isn't too big (I wan't to see some resemblance between before and after).
It would be funny though if girls in the same high school then went separate ways.. then at 30 they do a reunion... Maybe a game of 'who is she' would be kinda fun... :)
-Problem.
Many Korean women dont want to have Children.
I want plastic surgery too. What's the use of what's good inside if your outside is bad? People view the outside more than the inside.
Not only that, women view more the outside of a man than the inside. No amount of good inside can ever make woman fall inlove with an ugly person, and that's indeed a FACT!!!
Unfortunately that's how the world works; that's why I don't believe hypocrites who say "I don't want a girl with surgery" when all they look at are beautiful women for a girlfriend. Pretty damn sure they wouldn't give a damn afterwards if they nailed her.
No, that's the opposite.
Women view more the inside of your bank account then the outside.
Men view more the outside of a Woman than the inside.
Sad, but true.
in case you guys didn't notice, the op pic is the before and after...
Hmm, I've seen plenty of cute and pretty Korean girls although they were born in America, guess people in Korea are a lot more self conscious of their physical appearance
Oddly enough, there seems to be a high number of very good looking Korean american girls. Must be the genes, as they were upper classes mostly who were able to come to the US. Either that or I just happen to know hundreds of hot natural korean girls.
Either that or they aren't full Korean, and that is how they look pretty.
no...you speak lies
If their whole family is still very Korean tradition oriented, chances are they went back to Korea with their daughter and had her have plastic surgery.
Still not commonplace though.
Believe whatever you want, it IS damn commonplace.
What do you qualify as plastic surgery? I know girls who get the eyelid surgery. So? Its been done forever and it isnt altering their looks or lying about their beauty. Simply enhancing their eye size appeal. Very FEW Korean american families who live abroad go back to Korea to get plastic surgery exceeding eyelids. I believe what I know and what I know is from what I see.
Yeah because the whole fucking world is fact out of only what you see. By your own retarded belief I could say is freaking common for Koreans outside Korea to go and get surgery, whatever that might imply, because "I've seen them".
It is surgery. It is commonplace like hell. Stop trying to justify surgery saying "omg eyelid surgery ain't surgery" because it damn well is, besides the fact that it nothing to go defensive about.
no...lol...i dont even get why youre arguing so heavily against me when all im speculating is to what degree double eye lid surgery is plastic surgery. Yes its surgery and yes it alters appearance but when people refer to plastic surgery, they often imply MORE work done. Many KOREANS themselves and others dont feel it a big operation or dont even label it as PLASTIC surgery which has the connotation of heavy facial or body work. Now if we bring into question why its considered so casual for many and probably all koreans (women), then we see also why Korean women are so readily willing to undertake further surgery - such as the commonplace nosejob. So it is debatable as it is technically plastic surgery but the korean public dont see it that way and probably in awhile.
Lol being defensive? about what? you stated that korean women are going back to korea in large numbers for extensive surgery. I take the counter point from both experience, hearsay and in general, from interaction with the large korean american community base on the east coast. So I 'see' relatively few numbers of americanized korean girls who go for plastic surgery back in korea, but i do see some who undertake the minor eyelid one here in america, to enhance their appearance.
Get over what? Many koreans know about the plastic surgery craze in KOREA, but mass media has yet to deal with it in major opposition as a BAD thing. That in itself is bad. You continue to bash me on my experience used as evidence for what i believe but you dont really say anything to back your argument that they do go back to korea for surgery...
If the anonymous I was arguing with is still reading this thread, you were right. They do in fact go to korea for work done but I still see another problem in the attitude toward it.
Just stfu Kortaku, cosmetic surgery is still categorized under plastic surgery. Since eyelid surgery is most commonly done PLASTIC SURGERY the figures add up.
Yeah dumbfuck let's assume you're the only Korean-American here. You can say all you want about eyelid surgery not being plastic surgery, fact is IT IS. Go research it before trying to debate shit (that has nothing to debate about from the get go).
>>>How do you know they do? Lol.
How do YOU know? are you omnipresent or asked every woman there about it? and that's just assuming they will actually tell you the truth (which we won't). It's pointless to say "dur dur most Koreans don't go to Korea for surgery" because you just assume they don't based on "what you see around you". If I were to apply that retarded reasoning I could also claim "a ton of Korean women I know go to Korea for surgery". Why? because I see and what I see is what I know. Dumbass.
Why are you getting all defensive over this though? Maybe you don't like it if people think us korean women are fake or whatever shit. Maybe you don't think half the women you meet out there aren't 100% natural (moot point anyways, women can look completely different with make up). Point I want to make is GET OVER IT. It is surgery and it is commonplace to go to Korea for it whether nobody and their aunt admits it or not. It won't change anything about the people around you; the jerk will still be a jerk, and the nice ones will still be nice.
lol? Did i say its not surgery? No. But does it qualify as PLASTIC surgery? Debatable.
Lol where are you getting your information that American Koreans go back to Korea for PLASTIC surgery? Many Koreans i know simply get it done HERE, in the US. But they dont get the full nosejob and other PLASTIC surgery like operations, no no. When I said SEE, it includes what is seen in the Korean American COMMUNITY in which ive lived among MANY. East Coast Korean communities dont have many women who go back to do PLASTIC surgery. How do you know they do? Lol.
Jap is ugly
So that does mean that 98% of Korean women are ugly...
It means 98% of Korean women are neurotic.
Just because you want something it doesn't mean that you need it. I am sure everybody would do plastic sugery they could afford it.
Truth.
Many Asian women(especially Korean and Japanese)who are average looking, want to look like straight sex all the time.
But then there are some ugly ones who want to look like normal all the time as well. The former seems to be the common case.
I find myself awesome and beautiful. I'd never get Plastic Surgery
Sure man, your 2D girlfriends must tell you that all the time.
It doesn't mean 98% are ugly. It means 98% think they should look better.
Truth.