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South Korea's cosmetic surgery is a market leader, with South Korea taking a 25% share in the global market. [16] One in five Korean women have undergone plastic surgery, compared to just one in twenty in the United States. [17] In 2018, a total of 464,452 patients visited South Korea for cosmetic surgery, a 16.7 percent increase from 2017.
Sep 18, 2019 · Plastic surgery first entered mainstream South Korean culture after the Korean War in the late 1950s and early 1960s. American military doctors performed double-eyelid surgeries to fix...
Oct 7, 2020 · The first widely known case of plastic surgery in South Korea was performed during the U.S. occupation by American surgeon Dr David Millard. This was the beginning of the popularization of the blepharoplasty, or double-eyelid surgery, used to make Asian eyes appear rounder and wider.
- ‘Rise of Non-Invasive Surgeries’
- ‘Gangnam Beauty’
- Men Also Into Beauty
Just like fashion and technology, plastic surgery has its trends – especially in South Korea, a country that in 2016 was ranked third in the world for the number of plastic surgeons (2,330), according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Invasive and high-risk surgeries were very popular among South Koreans up until five years...
Doctors say the trend for non-invasive surgeries is more prevalent among young people in their 20s and 30s. Overall, a particularly popular period for plastic surgery is the gap after the end of high school and before the start of university, in a country where beauty is increasingly being held in high esteem. In 2015, a nationwide survey of 1,500 ...
But it’s not just young women who are turning to modern technology to improve their looks. An increasing number of Korean men are also going under the knife, according to Jung. On them of is Choi Minsu*, a 22-year-old college student. He said his small eyes were always a source of insecurity for him. “I got the eye surgery for my personal satisfact...
- Jueun Choi
Dec 18, 2018 · Over time, Korean society started accepting aesthetic medicine and in present-day South Korea, “the culture of cosmetic surgery is far less tucked away than in other countries, with a nose job or a blepharoplasty commonly given as high school graduation gifts.” (Shim, 2015, p. 2).
- Ka Yee Janice Wong
- 2018
Oct 8, 2018 · Stanford scholar So-Rim Lee details the historical, cultural, and economic influences on the surge of the cosmetic surgery industry in South Korea. October 8, 2018. Growing up in the Gangnam district of Seoul, South Korea, in the 1990s, So-Rim Lee watched her quiet, residential neighborhood transform into the bustling and posh commercial center ...
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In South Korea (hereafter “Korea”) in particular, an increasing number of people have been undergoing cosmetic surgery. According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), Korea ranks first on a per capita basis, with 13.5 cosmetic procedures performed per 1000 individuals [ 1 , 2 ].
