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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Plastic Surgery

Choice quotes from Plastic surgery craze:
    "More than half of women university students have had plastic surgery to make themselves prettier and about 82 percent of those who have not undergone such surgery say they intend to do so in the near future, KBS-TV reported the other day....

    "What is really interesting though, is the fact that all these women who undergo plastic surgery want to look Caucasian....

    "This trend, however, is strange in view of the rising nationalist and xenophobic sentiment among South Koreans, especially among young people who reject or at least hold unsympathetic opinions of anything foreign....

    "This perpetual need to change our personal appearance comes from a feeling of inadequacy or an inferiority complex that, let's face it, most of us Koreans are afflicted with."