BBC 인터넷 기사-한국의 외모지상주의와 불법성형을 말함.

[HAHAHA]

BBC 와 TIMES신문이 한국을 좋게 평가한 적을 별로 못 본듯합니다.
이글 읽고 쪼금 짜증날려합니다.
한편으론....얘들이 전엔 유럽서 잘나가는 기아차 현대차 샘나서 유치하게 조롱하더니 이젠 별걸 다 질투하는구나 싶기도 하구욤.
영국놈들(그런놈만 그렇지만...)성격 참 이상하죠?
남 잘되는 꼴을 못보네요.
우리의 가깝고도 먼 이웃나라랑 근성이 비슷한 듯....
그래봤자 이젠 유치한 항변으로 들리네여.
그만큼 우리나라의 입지가 확고해지는 과정이 아닌가 싶기도 하구요.


The price of beauty in South Korea

By Charles Scanlon
BBC News, South Korea


The South Korean capital, Seoul, has a reputation as the place to go for a nip or a tuck. But despite being an unregulated industry, thousands seem willing to risk injury in pursuit of a perfect body.


Peer pressure is encouraging young South Koreans to have surgery
Even the most ardent patriot would not describe South Korean cities as beautiful.

A dreary expanse of undistinguished concrete blocks does little to inspire the first time visitor.

But all is not lost for those on the look out for aesthetic attractions.

South Korea is in the grip of a beauty craze

South Korean women have a reputation as the most striking in Asia.

And the men are also shaping up. Korean actors are currently the region's premier heartthrobs.

The Korean look, with high cheekbones and sculptured features is all the rage from Shanghai to Singapore.

South Korea is in the grip of a beauty craze.

Investment

The streets of Seoul are thick with impeccably groomed young women in miniskirts, seemingly immune to the sub zero temperatures of the Korean winter.

Women of marriageable age are under intense pressure to look their best at all times and one of the consequences has been an explosion in plastic surgery.

A woman's magazine recently advised its readers to spend 30% of their incomes on looking good.

The reason, you will end up with a better and richer husband and that has to be a sensible investment.

Envy

The buzz word these days is ul-jjang, literally "best face".

Women, and some men as well, send posed photographs to websites, where they can be ranked on their looks.

By conservative estimates, 50% of South Korean women in their 20s have had some form of cosmetic surgery

The winners aspire to jobs in modelling and acting.

That spirit of competition is keeping the country's thousands of plastic surgeons hard at work.

It is no longer enough just to correct perceived flaws. The trick these days is to stand out from the crowd and be the envy of your friends.

By conservative estimates, 50% of South Korean women in their 20s have had some form of cosmetic surgery. And in a recent poll, 70% of men said they would also consider surgical improvements.

There is little stigma or shame attached, many of the operations have come to seem routine.

Implants

Kim Hee-soon is fairly typical. An impossibly slender 28-year-old shipping clerk.

She began with a double eyelid operation when she went to university. It is the most common procedure for Koreans, designed to make the eyes look bigger.

Pleased with the result she went back later to ask for a more statuesque nose.

It is a highly lucrative business and everyone wants a slice of the action

But the surgeon had a suggestion of his own, an operation to make her chin more shapely and cutting from inside the mouth he inserted an implant.

Three years later, she still feels pain and discomfort, especially when the weather is cold.

But despite the experience she is now considering breast implants.

That surgeon, like so many others practising here, turned out to be unqualified for the job, but he aggressively denied anything was wrong with his handiwork.

Disfigurement

South Korea has just 1,200 certified plastic surgeons. Many thousands of others are operating without proper qualifications.

It is a highly lucrative business and everyone wants a slice of the action.

One qualified surgeon told me he knew of psychiatrists doing liposuction and radiologists performing double eyelid operations.

The results are predictable enough.

For those who want an even cheaper job, there is always the massage woman at the local sauna who is handy with the botox injection and the scalpel

Cosmetic surgeons tell hushed stories of botched noses, damaged faces and women who cannot close their eyes at all after too much of the lid is cut away.

Some of the practitioners have no grasp of basic surgery. Patients asking for liposuction are literally risking their lives on the operating table.

Qualified operators say their old classmates from med school constantly badger them for lessons on lucrative cosmetic operations.

The result has been a dramatic drop in the price of plastic surgery, making it available to all. A second eyelid for the price of a night out.

And for those who want an even cheaper job, there is always the massage woman at the local sauna who is handy with the botox injection and the scalpel.

Amazingly, malpractice suits are few and far between, and the damages paid to victims are derisory by international standards.

Most complaints are settled quietly out of court in deals brokered by the consumer association.

The certified plastic surgeons are pushing for tougher regulation and more accountability, but they are up against a powerful lobby of doctors who fight any restrictions on the right to practice.

Secret filming

Until recently, the media has shown little interest in investigating the abuses.

But in one recent case, an undercover TV crew filmed a liposuction operation at the surgery of a gynaecologist.

The operation was performed by the salesman from the company that sold the machine. At one point he invited the gynaecologist to hold the suction tube, to groans of pain from the unfortunate patient.

The government seems more interested in keeping the doctors happy than in protecting the public as a whole.

And in the frenzy to look their best South Korean women, as well as increasing numbers of men, are still prepared to take the risk.

[볼빨간@^^@]

외모에 미친나라라니...정말 단체로 명예회손소송이라도? 정당한 비판은 그렇다 쳐도 영국 저렇게 무식한 발언까지? 정말 열받네요..

[달콤초코렛]

영국여자들 가슴성형하는건 어떻고....

[ohgom]

제가 읽어 볼결과로는 한국을 비판한다기 보다.. 라이센스없이 수술하는 사람들에 대한 비판과..미(美)만 추구하는 20대를 비판하는것 으로 보이는데요....

[muji]

정말 넘 심하지요~ 한국의 외모지상주의! 어쩔때는 무섭더군요 ㅋㅋㅋ

[pine&apple]

kkk what do you think about the cosmetic surgery tv program in u.k?

[수짱~]

이젠 영국사람들 별걸 다 가지구 시비건다. 성형수술하는 나라가 어디 우리나라 하나인가? 그럼 일본은 어떻고 미국은 어떤데?

[SeReNiTy]

아골때린다 왜 이러는지 영국인 망신은 기자가 다시키네 .. 한국을 왜 얕잡아 보는지.. 몇몇 서양인들은 너무해