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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I'd find it pretty awkward telling my girlfriend that she's beautiful only for her to reveal that she's undergone plastic surgery. =\
ignorance is bliss
It's all our fault... We request too much beautifulness so this is wat we get in return... Fake!!!!
I'd marry an average looking girl than beautiful FAKE...
are you gay?
I would only marry an average looking man with penis shaped like dragon's head and one that shoots liquid chocolade instead of FAKE sperm.
@k
here here, I agree with you there buddy, natural beauty is always the best.
Oh here's a fun story for all.
When my friends and I went to prom, no one, not even the dater, could recognize the girl with all the make-up on. I told her that I thought she looked better without make-up. Her date and most of the guys thought the same.
However her sister got offended that we thought she looked fine without and looked better without make-up.
I think that most people who get plastic surgery do it out of insecurity. Anyone remember the article about the Russian couple who replaced her hymen several times? How is that a sign of caring for the other rather than promoting lust?
Agree w/ k
I'd rather have someone who naturally looks good or decent. And it really is the "inside" that counts, you don't want to end up with some beautiful girl whom would gladly find someone else to be with if they're richer, cuz they(the girl) could pull it very easily with their looks. Why not go for someone whom won't stand out as much to guys, who may not be as popular with guys in general?
Because men like pretty women. If it weren't for that no one would have plastic surgery and everyone would live in a perfect world where the inside would count more than the outside. Sad fact is people look at the outside.
Well, fake isn't bad.
@k
are you gay?
I would rather have fake and beautiful. :) you can have the ugly girls. I'm way too rich and cool to even be SEEN with an asian girl in the first place.
While it is true that many Korean women (and some men) are having plastic surgery, its MOSTLY on a minor scale. This is recognized by Korean society as well and obviously frowned upon but it is also the pressures of Korean celebrity. Looks in Korea have become fundamentally more important as Korean entertainment industries have expanded internationally. There is some correlation there.
Korean women who undertake the surgery mostly get the eyelid fold back surgery (extremely common in Korea and Asia) and nose jobs. Others will indulge further and get beautification of the cheeks and chin to complement the nose job. Although Korea is the highest country for this type in Asia, I'm sure other asian countries do likewise operations.
But because many Korean women ARE doing this operation, it doesnt mean all beautiful women in Korea are false [there are some who were subpar and did become amazingly beautiful though- "ulljzangg"]. Korea over these past 10 years has become even more attached to trends and pop culture than Japan, and its because of these pressures that young women undertake these operations.
I was there this summer and I went to Apejeung shopping street(rodeo drive), and its certainly a translated version of Hollywood's drive. Beautiful (and now tall) korean women everywhere.
Shut up ugly Korean, quit justifying your ugliness.
aint like im going to fuck all of them
so it doesnt matter if they are fake or not
But anon you said you had 23 girls a day and that you ruled the universe was this all lies?
In this transition; I worry about your soul. I've heard that such operations are often an attempt to "westernise" women and men alike. What future does a country whose preferences are based on another country's holds?
Also why do you people care about physical beauty? All that is golden shall rust, all that is youth is destined to decay; all that is solid will vanish in the air. Also; you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke at the fire.
I don't care about the plastic versus natural argument here but I have to voice my disagreement with the comment above.
I am fucking sick of hearing the Asians want to westernise their features bullcrap. How many results have you seen are of girls who became Caucasian looking? Do the girl in the top pic ended up westernised? What a fucking load of self righteousness and racial superiority the west wants to propagate. Asians who have plastic surgery wants to look like a better version of themselves, like a good looking Asian, not turn into some other race. Since we are talking about Koreans here, how many of those Koreans that have had surgery look white to you? Quit that fucking idiotic thought. What we do to ourselves is none of your fucking business.
Guess why there are so many skin whitening and double eyelid products the best selling cosmetic products? That are both things that make look more western.
I think your lack of mastery over the English language is impeding on your ability to understand my comment. I am hoping so, because if not, it would be a more fundamental issue.
Wanting double eye folds that are found commonly in Asian communities = how does that translate to wanting to look western? Does the girl in the pic above look western to you? Asians who have the procedure just want to look like Asians who have them period.
As for looking fair... are you fucking serious? I am trying really hard not to call you out for your stupidity here, but guess I failed. Wanting to be fair has nothing to do with race. Some Asians are fair, some are tanned. Some people want to be as fair as some other Asians that they see and that is all. If you seriously think your logic is infallible, how about I turn this around: White people who tanned themselves secretly want to be black, Indian, Malays, Australian aborigines, etc.
Double eyelids are something that only western people have from nature you dork, also on the advertisments for the products you can read that they are made for "Get western pretty big eyes". The most beauty products freatures a advertisment saying it is to look more western but you seriously don't got a clue about the asian beauty industry.
uhm...Korean women do admit Western white women are pretty and do often try to imitate them...lol...
Er, although it may be true that some women use cosmetic products and go through surgery to "look western", most of the time it is just to look good in general. I don't know much about double eye-lids and stuff but I'm sure it's not a feature that only the westerners have for it to be actually considered a process of "westernization"^^
And a fairer look has always been desired by Asian women even before Asians knew blonde folks existed in the world. You'll be able to see that in ancient Asian literature of various cultures where maidens are praised for the fairness of their skin. If you try, you'll see that there is a fundamental difference between the Caucasian "whiteness" and the Asian "fairness". As far as I know, women using skin-whitening products do not use them to achieve the kind of complexion that the Caucasians have. They merely use it to look fairer in general, in an Asian way. They know the difference between fairness and albinism.
Of course there will always be a small group of people in Asia who worship the western version of beauty just like there are some of those who visit Sankaku regularly to feast on Asian and mostly Japanese beauty (and no, I'm not saying that there's something wrong with it.) But if we actually try to make conclusions from only looking at these statistics, they'll be no more than hasty generalizations =)
If, let's say if, one day a product that gives freckles gets invented and becomes a best-seller in Asia, then I'll admit that Asian woman are trying to look western^^
To be honest, the last time I was in Seoul it seemed like the women there were trying very hard to look Japanese. Fashion, makeup, mannerisms were very similar to what I had witnessed in Tokyo just weeks before. Also it was completely different to the girls in Taipei, they seemed to be on a different tack of fashion, etc.
Personally, I want my Asian women to look Asian, not westernized. I prefer them to have extreme examples of Asian eyefolds or cheekbones. Not to the extreme of Busu-Kawaii tho....
女中 あゆ:
You are the one who is clearly lacking in knowledge about the Asian mindset, so shut it about not knowing anything about the Asian gaze.
It doesn't matter if Caucasians have double eye folds from birth, we have always considered double eye folds an attractive trait, just like fair skin. Since ages past, girls and guys with them were considered "better".
And regardless of whatever crazy rhetoric you pull out of your deluded ass, I maintain that the end effect speaks for itself. How many Asian girls who go through plastic surgery ended up looking "westernised". We want to look good like our counterparts, it has nothing to do with whatever gaijins think.
If you are so hot on doing research, why don't you go read some classical text for reference instead of being a superficial weeaboo and watching anime all the time and conjuring your sense of "Asians" from them.
Hey, most of us Southeast Asians have the eyefold too. Look at Thai and Vietnamese girls. We just have that extra flap over the tearduct that gives us the Asian slant.
Funny how for thousands of years they reviled our darker skin yet now secretly want to have our eyes.
Why shouldn't I know how the mind of asians are when I am myself born in osaka and life there almost the whole time? Also like I said before you can read it on every product that makes double eyelids you can read in huge letters "Get western pretty big eyes". That what you say doesn't makes ANY sense at all. Also asians may have one eyelid crease but no double ones, that doesn't work with the asian head structure without plastic sugery.
This issue with "ignorance is bliss" is that the plastic surgery doesn't carry over to genes. She'll look great, but whatever unnatractriveness that is in her genes would show in her kids, unless they undergo the knife too.
Just think:
Ugliness is genetic.
Beauty is cosmetic.
surgery is not the only plastic aspect of korean women
check out their fashion sense and personality, they must have the latest trends and be like wonder girls
i for one find korean women BLAND because literally they're mostly clones of each other
Unfortunately, that is also the case of most women in East and South East Asian Countries. Most women in my country have the same manner of dressing, hairstyle, etc. I guess its got to do with our culture of "following the pack".
My god that statement is so false.
China women are by far the worst in their sense of fashion.
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"check out their fashion sense and personality, they must have the latest trends and be like wonder girls... i for one find korean women BLAND because literally they're mostly clones of each other"
^
YEAH;
Go and find an episode of 'The Twilight Zone' called "Number 12 Looks Just Like You".
Please! Watch it, everyone!
It's horrifying. And sick. Can't be explained properly in words alone.
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_
The whole thing remembers me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu6gM9cfpWs
It would only be awkward if you'd said "I'm glad you have natural beauty, unlike other women" xD
Nature or not, to me it's the inside that's count.
Because you're GAY
you must be either stupid as fuck or 12 yrs old, either way gtfo the site
He is a 12 year old. Don't bother with that idiot.
LOL You guys are going to call me 12? You two might as well be stuck at that age, because you have as much game as a 12 year old to begin with.
Second, if you still believe "its whats inside that counts" you should probably kill yourself. I can tell you have NEVER had a sexual partner or even a date.
Hey faggot, GTFO. Btw, do you own a Harley?
-The Coon (not that douche Mysterion)
With plastic surgery, physical beauty seem too easy to get.A beautiful whore isn't hard to find either.But any kind of surgery nowadays couldn't shaped a person mind completely as your desire .Therefore, to find a life time partner that make you keep loving and feel happy to be with until death would be a life time achievement. And I'm not gay btw, I do enjoy woman, you know? Still continue to pursue that kind of achievement though.
so very strange :\
Okay, now I generally get it from the past posts here...
If it's Criminal, It's Japanese
If it's Dirty, It's Chinese
If it's Surgery, It's Korean
Sorry, but I this one is good > : D
crimal goes far and wide though, so...
If it's Rori, It's Sankaku
I endorse this post (for truth).
If it's 2D, It's Japan
If it's 2D, it's worth my attention
To the "criminal"
I was pertaining to Koreans and Chinese always who always blames Japanese and calls them Criminals.
I couldn't find the post where it's about a show in Korea that said, "if it's bad/criminal, it's japanese"
A show in Korea huh? please find that 'post' of yours
aha, excuse me for my bad memory, I couldn't find it...
but I did found the appropriate youtube link. What I quoted earlier isn't exact as the one on the video, so sorry abut that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY-OBslIJKk
some translation:
When you do a bad thing, say, “I am a Japanese.” .
*Applause*
Be sure to say.
If you step on someone’s legs, say “SUMIMASEN”.
*Applause*
thats pretty funny :P
its like what we do too, if you fuck up say your mainland chinese...
Ahh i see what you mean now. For all we know, he could of been joking (which some people find hard to believe) just to make conversation perhaps? I dunno, I'm not fluent in Korean.
Yeah, he's joking. It's a comedy show. But it's just that some might really take it seriously...
Think of the Japanese doing the same thing, jokingly say that if you're found having plastic surgery, tell them you're korean...
It's funny that you don't mention that it's a entertainment/comedy show and that the hosts say that they were only joking until someone pointed it out. You would have been fine just letting people think they were being serious.
Yeah, many Koreans still have lingering dislike the Japanese (inherently taught through the family), but nowadays, its nonexistent in the youth of Korea and probably China.
Game show = make fun of people. Korean game show = make fun of other peoples so that. And for Koreans, its always a good time to insult the Japanese or show them we are now better at something than they are =).
Used to live in South Korea. I haven't seen any Koreans blaming Japanese for criminal activities in Seoul or Busan.
What I find surprising about South Korea is very surprising: Koreans are not obsessed with crimes these days, they are instead extremely obsessed with blaming politicians.
thihi.. agreed
And if it's Fat, it's American.
Actually it would be "if it's fat it's Austrailian" people still think America is the fattest even though Austrailia took the crown.
If it's about manly woman, it's Russia..?
Crime in Japan is quite low... I'd say if it's its Unrealistic, it's Japanese.
And of course, if there's protests, it's Korean lol
Hotblooded Koreans. Truth.
Better than vegetarian Japanese men, at least they won't change us for cats.
It won't matter - by 2050 the Japanese will have probably pwned themselves with their population crisis.
Enjoy your gargantuan age gap.
Better than 'feminine' Japanese men. There is one very good thing to respect about Korea and its men are significantly masculine compare to Japanese counterpart.
Maybe this explains my female Japanese roommate who has a kink for Korean men. -_-;;;;
And if its fake boob, it America
Don't care, would still hit it.
Be careful though; a badly-timed plastic surgery rebound (caused by QUALITY control) might swallow you whole in a bad way.
Also think about the children. What would happen if they have ugly kids. are the children suppose to under go surgery too?
There is the funny joke going around korean people that lives in the US.
A man and a woman met and fell in love. They were both very handsome and beautiful, a perfect match in how good looking they were. Later after they got married, they of course, had children. But oh, the child turned out plain butt ugly. Fugly, as you may put it. Everyone was shocked, as how could the two who where so good looking, bear such ugly child? They both showed each other their childhood picture, and turns out, they were both butt ugly. It means they had surgery.
lol.yeah.most likely
was chinese actually
Korea is a nation full with ugly people.
...Ouch.
-is an adopted American-
OMG.but i admit.better the disgustig pig do plastic surgery rather than having ugly look that make people puke.
but of coz,original is always better.but original beauty is likely to be found only in 2D
i have no idea what you typed there.
True, true.
Unfortuneately...
:(
Somewhat agreed. There are ignorant people out there who now think that "their" country has better natural looking beauties or something or rather. It's funny how people don't mention how much Japanese women get cosmetic surgery. Just because Japanese women don't talk about cosmetic surgery doesn't necessarily mean they don't get it as well, it's just they aren't as forthright about admitting to it. Difference in culture.
No surprises here. 98% of Korean women NEED plastic surgery anyway.
lol does that make 100% of world that requires surgery? Cause 8/10 people are ugly.
Pretty sure the number and rate of plastic surgery is higher in Japan than Korea, but w/e lets blame Koreans because they are evil ...
How so?
According to history,
In every case, Japan attacked and invaded Korea --"
I think that's why they were mean to Korea and not to Taiwan, cuz they are just too ugly to be nice to.
You guys fail at detecting sarcasm :P
There's no sarcasm on the internet, it's all serious business.
ITZ SRZBZNZ.
No actually, as a Korean myself, my family, friends and others, we all know its going on over there. Hell, we make jokes about it ourselves but its not as a frowned upon practice as it is in the US since most surgeries arent massively face changing. (Although there are the despicable 'ulljzang')
dont be surprised when you got ugly kids running around look like you, but didnt look like your wife (who undergo plastic surgeries) at all
i wonder how it feel when u slept with a beautiful girl only to found out she was a hideous pig from planet frankenstein.
I dunno.... thank your Lucky Stars she didn't have a Frankenpenis?
.... oops!
Don't doubt yourself, for there may be some hidden truth in your statement which is yet to be uncovered with SCIENCE or a direct inspection.
Well at least the surgery was only to make her beautiful. It could have been a lot worse. The kind of worse that you want to go home and shower with chlorine because you feel like you got raped.
I wonder if anyone realized what am talking about?
Fugly nation is fugly, cant do anything here. I think that genetic science needs to focus on cultivating the perfect genes, both healthy and esthetically beautiful, and distribute them all over the world to artificially impregnate womans with it.
I'd rather see many similar, but beautiful people, than a bunch of not so good looking fellows, with only a handful of actually beautiful ones.
hope you dont look yourself in the mirror then
Watch out, it almost sounds like an Aryan race you're getting at.
As much as I'd enjoy looking at a world of beautiful people, it would be boring as shit after a while. If you want beauty, 2D is your friend.
Once you get bored the ugly people will become the fetishes.
One (just one of many) problems with such eugenics is that EVERYONE has their own idea of what visual beauty is.
Too many people get their ideas of this from glitzy magazines (Playboy, Cosmopolitan, etc.).
I don't want to be in the hell of the clones.
The easy solution to all this is... I"m surprised no one else thought of it.
To simply abort inferior, ugly men. And keep all the women.
Then the superior men will impregnate the women, and the babies will at least be half superior.
The next generation those babies are impregnated with more superior man sperm, and became 75% superior.
And thus is continued until all women are beautiful, and all men make Arnold Schwarzennegar look like a wet noodle.
So you want beautiful women and ass-ugly men?
Lol...ugly nation? Troll harder.
you're either trolling or a fucking disgusting person. Perfect genes? If you knew an ounce of biology, you would know that there's no such thing.
Japanese: "it's anti-Japanese!"
Chinese: "it's anti-Chinese!"
--update--
Korean: "it's anti-Korean!"
Erm, nah I'm Korean descendant and this shit is just the facts. This has nothing to do with Sancom being anti-whatever, Korean women just have that much of self-steem (aka none at all).
It's a Korean reality, but oddly enough, isnt very frowned upon in the mass media yet in Korea.
Though, there are opposition movements in the general public.
You forgot "pro-Sony/MS" - at times we have been accused of both in the same article...
Artefact we all know you're getting payed millions by Sony and Microsoft just to keep console wars going and keep the wii down. SARCASM
This is why I go for 2D. :D
your 2D girls went through photoshop for reconstructive surgery
Yes. because 2d is nowhere as artificial as cosmetic surgery...
2D... not artificial...
I'm getting mixed messages here, Anonymous.
Wow they are pretty hot afterwards. It's magic guys. Korean magic of the erection.
why care until the surgery's done right?
So only 54% of Korean women are natural?
2D2D2D2D2D2D 111WINWINWIN
plastic win!!!!!
Plastic Fantastic ;)
I'm a barbie girl... In a barbie woo~orld...
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
Come On Barbie Let's Go Party!!!
Ooh ooh ooh yeeah...
What a crazy world we live in...
:/
Post Scriptum:
Did You hear that LASER MOTIVE is working on something similar to orbital elevator?
And considering that Japs are working on mobile armors and robots...well I just can't wait...
8D...
Welcome to this crazy time!
このいかれた時代にようこそ！
君はTOUGH BOY, TOUGH BOY, TOUGH BOY, TOUGH BOY...
etc
Wut?
well the women they interviewed could really use one and quick.
ok btw, even a movie about plastic surgery already been made before in korea, if I'm not mistaken the title is 200 pound beauty ?
would really love to see a real natural beauty
That would involve going to the zoo at some point in the distant future to see Woman in Her Natural Habitat (the Kitchen, the Mall, the Beauty Parlor, etc.).
LOL'd ... well i personally prefer to see an active women in a more natural place, camping and outbound.. even in an close to the city one( well maybe about half hour from the city)
but yes.. i'd love to see women in the kitchen..
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'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!
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)
THIS IS MADNESS!
madness?
this is barbie !!
Brakfast? Fine, but where do we dine during dinner? Plastic Hell?
Lol'd
I always thought Koreans are way hotter than Japanese.
This must be the cause.
Same here, dude.
21:23 Anon speaks the truth.
This IS why.
The truth has been revealed.
Be careful there, your japanese beauties most probably had plastic surgery too.
LOVE IS OVER
Truth but probably the same degree of operation.
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
ultra-chrome, latex, and steel
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.
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
Ok we got it man, now go suck the cocks you like so much.
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
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.
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!!!
Sad, but true.
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.
well if all woman become cute
im fine with it
but a little disappointing
because genes can't be change
How about liking something outside celebrity shit, you're the weird one wanting something most genes don't have.
Kimchis only like two things. Surgery and starcraft
And if I was to respond to your comment, Japs only like two things:
Money (Since all the women are gold-diggers)
2-D girls(Since 90% of men fail at getting money, thus no women)
I love generalising too!
you forget about cat
I do still love starcraft...
So that does mean that 98% of Korean women are ugly...
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.
I find myself awesome and beautiful. I'd never get Plastic Surgery
Sure man, your 2D girlfriends must tell you that all the time.
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.
It means 98% of Korean women are neurotic.
It doesn't mean 98% are ugly. It means 98% think they should look better.
Truth.
Korea is stronger than Japan
korean is NO.1 in the WORLD
Keep dreaming, my man/babe (whatever)!
Obvious anti Korean troll...
I belive, You ment: "Obvious anti-Japanese troll".
Look closely at which post You respond to.
:)
no lol. I did respond correctly to the fail ass Korea praiser who wants to make korea look bad by hating on japan in a stupid and obvious troll like fashion. Trolling as a anti japanese korean troll is just trollrifically trollicious.
=)
Jap is ugly
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The last laugh's on them, they still have to bear the curse of their wretched genes.
DYNAMIC KOREA
well one important thing to kno is theres a procedure called sangulpul.. where girls can get double eyelids.. a lot of korean girls get it.. and they call that doin plastic surgery.. if u take out that from plastic surgery the number wouldnt be as high
Yep.
I'll never date korean girls again.
Is not like you have dated ANY woman, ever.
Hahahaha.
Let's all give a big hand to all those pretty girls
FAP,FAP,FAP,FAP,FAP,FAP,FAP
...wait that doesn't sound right!!
I am not surprised~
I wonder if most of the surgery done is eyelid surgery...?
It is.
no more orange names?
evidently error on my side now their back.
Regardless Real or Fake Beauty, as long as she's lolicious, I'll take her anytime.
Lol Koreans
I'd rather have a "fake" beautiful girl, than a "real" ugly one.
and what's the big deal with plastic surgery anyways? I just see it as another level up in females make-up. just more permanent.
if u want a "real" girl, make her not do make-up either.
and fix up your kids if they turn out ugly too. who wants ugly kids? and who wants their kids to be ostricized in school?
and stop stuffing ur stupid kids making em disgustingly obese. I'm talking to u, Americans.
its not just happenin in Korean society but whole world cuz nowadays, plastic surgery is considered to be the best n the fastest way to look good n beautiful... yeah right
p/s: i still yearn for natural beauty; a rare find lol
Maybe Korea is ahead in the race/curve when it comes to plastic surgery. Who knows, maybe years from now it will become more socially accepted in more countries and the issue of whether or not to get plastic surgery will be "blase". I for one don't care. Maybe if it's apparently clear they had plastic surgery and they look plain "creepy" then maybe but if I don't even know they had it, maybe it's not even an issue.
Who cares if they are fake?
If I would wanna fan AVERAGE girls, I would just go out of the house...> >
I WANT them to look pretty and cute...Sry, maybe I'm just cruel but I have high expectations if it comes to beauties...
And looking at those pictures I bet the surgery wasn't THAT much of a force of society...
Lol. But how would your children look with a women who has had plastic surgery? Are you good looking enough to even get a natural beauty?
Who the hell said I wanna have children with them?! o_O'
First of all, the possibility of me dating an Asian beauty is very very low...
Secondly I'm still a G.I.R.L...
Thirdly, you don't really believe the children of ugly parents are born ugly as well...o_O If yeah, you should think this through a bit more carefully...> >
plastic surgery is AWWWRIIIGHT
Funny how the picture of woman saying 8/10 women have plastic surgery isn't Korean...the subtitles suggests that she's Japanese.
The subtitles suggest it's a Japanese program, you tool.
In the top right it clearly states they are asking Korean women about plastic surgery.
japs are very sensitive to the flash of a camera they all blinked
I think that it's only ok for older women to get plastic surgery to restore the beauty that they lost with aging. But really? 20-30 year old's think they need it? Koreans must be pretty ugly if all of them think they need it so young.
I looked at myself in the mirror and thought, "if I were a Korean woman, I would most likely get a plastic surgery." It got me wondering for a second whether I think I'm ugly or that Korean beauty criteria is way higher than European or American. I've never even thought about getting one.
They're fucking nazis when it comes to girls (and now men) being beautiful. Believe me, I know korean women who are damn hot (if not by Korean standards by any other western ones) yet feel they need to have this or that shit fixed.
You better be thin and pretty in Korea, none of this "I'm beautiful inside" shit from fat people.
Looks have grown to be extremely important in Korea with the rise of the entertainment industry. So those who were average are now shit.
more like they "NEED" plastic surgery
Koreans r just not used to and uncomfortable with the "FUglies" than ppl in places like USA
Wow, four of the girls up top looks the same, and judging from their face they all had 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
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.
This article printed on anti-korean newspaper: Sankei.
According to a statistic, it's not true.
The result is quite interesting as compared with Sankei.
# 1 Switzerland: 214.621 per 100,000 people
# 6 Hong Kong: 73.866 per 100,000 people
# 7 Australia: 66.227 per 100,000 people
# 9 Mexico: 49.863 per 100,000 people
# 17 Canada: 33.842 per 100,000 people
# 18 Japan: 33.623 per 100,000 people
# 19 United States: 30.768 per 100,000 people
# 20 United Arab Emirates: 30.55 per 100,000 people
# 25 South Africa: 25.122 per 100,000 people
# 27 Korea, South: 19.654 per 100,000 people
# 31 Saudi Arabia: 2.082 per 100,000 people
# 33 Russia: 0.837 per 100,000 people
# 34 India: 0.209 per 100,000 people
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_pla_sur_pro_percap-plastic-surgery-procedures-per-capita
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Interesting as according to that, which seems a bit more accurate than a sidewalk poll of 1,800 ppl, Japan has a much higher rank of plastic surgery than S.korea.
I find HK's & Taiwan's high ranking interesting as well.
# 6 Hong Kong: 73.866 per 100,000 people
# 13 Taiwan: 43.889 per 100,000 people
# 18 Japan: 33.623 per 100,000 people
# 27 Korea, South: 19.654 per 100,000 people
and the good ol USA surprisingly low at #19 30.768 per 100,000 people.
damn japanese trying to screw with the facts again lol
F A I L
Sankei is hardly anti-Korean.
Anyway, from your source:
"These statistics do not represent the work of every plastic surgeon in each country and this is why it is smaller than the numbers presented by National societies of plastic surgery.
For example, in the US there are 6,600 members of ASPS, the National plastic surgery society, and only 189 are ISAPS members; In Brazil there are 4,400 members of the SBCP and only 144 are members of ISAPS.
---ISAPS International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery ---"
So the statistics you quote are rubbish. Asking actual Koreans seems rather more reliable.
As a Korean, yep, its happening but doesnt seem to be that big of a deal.
The thing is, Artefact should find a corresponding survey for Japanese. I believe the figures are pretty similar, especially in metropolitan cities like Osaka and Tokyo. The only thing is that they are as forthcoming about it if asked face to face. It isn't as widely accepted as in Korea, but the population are definitely just as altered.
I think these statistics may be misleading. What kind of surgical procedure are we talking about here? It's one thing to have your face alter or your breasts augmented, but surgery to "westernize" an Asian's eyes is less drastic. Are we including more minor procedures like Botox? Statistics like this are notorious for the way they organize their information to paint a picture which may not be entirely representative of the truth.
What is the criteria concerning the statistics?
Does it include purely medical reasons? (burns/accidents,etc.)
What scope of surgery does it encompass? (Just an eyes/nose job or full-blown face change)
Was it legally required for surgeons to report their numbers?
A lot more factors you need to take into consideration. This is why any survey/statistic is pure bullshit.
when did i even imply the site was anti-korean? lol
Artefact, u're getting too anally defensive nowadays~
If anyone's at fault, it's the the newspaper & the stat site's, 4 giving unconvincing data from such small samples.
of course, we can't ignore the TRUTH of the under 2000 sidewalk questionare poll LOL
Lol, Koreans aren't very pretty unless they have plastic surgery.
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).
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.
Nation Sports of Korea:
Archery
Tae Kwon Do
Horse Back Riding
Starcraft
And plastic surgery.
sorry to tell you guys but Japan is number 4 in the whole world for most plastic surgery procedures while Korea is number 15
Fucking Koreans spreading propaganda.
Japanese are photoshopped, Koreans are plastic, Americans are silicone etc. etc. etc.
Lol only photoshopped? you deluded naive lamb.
Japan's also more than twice as populous. Is this based on data like "surgeries per 100k people" or just the total amount of surgeries that have occurred on a given year?
I like plastic beauty with face n body made from pvc in 1/8 scale
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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...
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
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 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.
“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.