SEOUL (Reuters) – When Ryu Han-na, a 20-year-old university student, got cosmetic surgery on her nose in mid-December, she had a simple reason: it might be the last chance to do so covertly b… ...

Christina Lim, 19, before and after her facial plastic surgery procedures. JK Medical Group June 20, 2014— -- America is a country obsessed with plastic surgery.

As she said goodbye before her flight back to South Korea, ... According to Dr. Lee, the country experienced early exposure to modern Western plastic surgery due to the Korean War.

SEOUL, South Korea — The citizens of this hyper-competitive East Asian nation are the most cosmetically enhanced people in the world, going under the knife more per capita than Americans ...

Before and after. Subscribe ... Tech Insider visited JK Plastic Surgery, one of South Korea's leading cosmetic centers, to learn more about why plastic surgery is so central to the culture.

Just before I arrived in Korea, a college student who had gone in for eyelid surgery died. Before the anesthetic was administered, the doctor offered to give her a bonus jaw operation free of ...

South Korea has more cosmetic surgery procedures per capita than anywhere else in the world and a 2020 survey found that 25 per cent of women between 19 and 29 have undergone one, although some ...

It wasn’t until college that I read that Asian blepharoplasty was popularized in 1950s Korea by David Ralph Millard, an American military plastic surgeon.He operated on Korean interpreters ...

Before and after plastic surgery [Buzzfeed] The South Koreans are Neo-Confucians who believe in a unified society. If plastic surgery is the prevailing beauty standard, then everyone must join in.

SEOUL, South Korea — The citizens of this hyper-competitive East Asian nation are the most cosmetically enhanced people in the world, going under the knife more per capita than Americans, It… ...