The development of plastic surgery in Korea
With the popularity of Korean TV dramas throughout Asia, there is a "stunning sense" of Korean women throughout Asia. Why are all Korean women so beautiful? Big eyes, high nose, oval oval face, so perfect you can hardly find a flaw?
Their secret, perhaps, is plastic surgery.
South Korean beauties don't shy away from cosmetic surgery
In Korea, plastic surgery is sometimes as routine as our regular haircuts. South Korean singers or stars, almost no not in the face of the knife, and this kind of plastic surgery, not only in the star circle, the general office workers, college graduates, housewives regard plastic surgery as a very common beauty. Most people are in favor of plastic surgery, so this kind of surgery is very common, like going to the barber shop when you have long hair, it is a trend in Korea. Also, many people don't hide that they've had plastic surgery.
South Koreans do not take plastic surgery as personal privacy, and many people do not hide that they have had plastic surgery. In South Korea, many parents give their daughters plastic surgery cards as gifts on their 18th birthdays because they want them to get off to a beautiful start in life. Ask any Korean on the street, "What would you like to do if you won the lottery?" Many people would answer, "Get plastic surgery right away."
Sophisticated Korean plastic surgery experts and a large number of Korean plastic surgery agencies provide the necessary technical conditions for the manufacture of Korean beauty. South Korea has a population of about 45 million, but there are more than 2,500 plastic surgery hospitals in South Korea, and the average number of more than 10,000 people has a beauty hospital, which is quite amazing. When you get off at Apgujeong-dong Station on Seoul Subway Line 3, you will see Korea's famous "plastic surgery street." More than 200 plastic surgery clinics, plastic surgery hospitals in the Apgujeong-dong street line up, some buildings even crowded a few clinics, three or four signs heavy stack, if there is no insider guidance, for some foreign people who go alone to do plastic surgery, it is not clear which is good. Famous Korean beauty magazines feature hospitals and doctors in Apgujeong-dong. Before coming to the "Cosmetic Surgery Street", every Seoul resident will carefully study which hospital performs the surgery well, which doctor is the most famous, and what surgical methods are the most advanced.
Emphasis on appearance: The social background of plastic surgery in Korea
Korean society generally pays attention to appearance and appearance, women, and even men, as long as they go out must make up, do not shy away from talking openly about plastic surgery experience, and plastic surgery as an investment into society. Therefore, Korean beauty also pays more attention to humanization and an overall harmonious beauty. They believe that cosmetic surgery is just like dressing, which needs to be tailored. Surgery not only changes the local, but also to coordinate with the overall effect, such as body shape, clothing, occupation.
If the Chinese and South Korean plastic surgery is compared, there is almost no difference in plastic surgery technology, the difference lies in the plastic surgery awareness of the two people. Chinese people are still clinging to the traditional idea of "natural beauty". The Korean consciousness of plastic surgery is mainly based on the Korean attitude toward life, and they require themselves to achieve perfection in all aspects, especially for women. South Koreans generally believe that being a woman is supposed to be perfect. If a woman does not wear makeup in public, it is very impolite and a sign of low quality. Second, Koreans are very competitive for jobs, and they believe that one's appearance reflects one's ability to some extent. Beautiful appearance is the first impression, but also a kind of capital for job competition.
Plastic surgery has long been accepted by the vast majority of Koreans as a way of life. Unlike in China, it is currently only recognized by fashion and avant-garde beauty lovers. In Korea, more than 40% of the people have done one or two plastic surgery, and the number of people willing to accept plastic surgery accounts for about 60% of the total number of people, it can be said that plastic surgery is a common social trend in South Korea.
South Korea's plastic surgery craze stems from classical traditions
On October 28, the Asian Plastic Surgery Conference, which has been held for six years, came to China for the first time, and 50 of Asia's top plastic surgery experts gathered in Shanghai. The experts who came to the meeting said that Shanghai is a more and more "beauty" city, and the beauty economy is booming. Among these experts, there is a special plastic surgery expert - Gold handle key, as the top plastic surgery and beauty experts in Korea, Dr. Kim will come to Shanghai Ruili Plastic surgery and beauty Hospital every two weeks as a guest surgeon, and naturally have their own views on the plastic surgery and beauty culture of China and South Korea.
Are there any differences between Korean and Chinese young people's aesthetics?
Jin Handle Key: Personally, I don't feel that there is much difference. Today's young people have similar cultural backgrounds, and their sense of beauty is also very close. In fact, after all, the difference between the faces of young people in the two countries is not too big. However, South Koreans do have higher expectations for appearance, which may have something to do with their traditional love of beauty. This has also promoted the development of plastic medicine in Korea.
Sunday: So the requirements of plastic surgeons in the two countries are somewhat different. For example, in China, some people even need to have plastic surgery because of their birthday and luck, and in Korea?
Kim: It's pretty much the same in Korea. In contrast, South Korea's plastic medicine began slightly earlier than China, and South Korea also seems to have fully accepted the concept of plastic surgery, has taken it as a part of life, the whole society has formed a plastic surgery ethos, so the social acceptance of plastic surgery is higher than China.
It is often reported that although there are many beautiful women undergoing plastic surgery in Korea, the types are relatively simple.
Gold handle key: not so much. In South Korea, more professional plastic surgeons will fully communicate and exchange with the plastic object before the operation, understand the needs of the other side, and will also put forward their own opinions. Of course, there will indeed be many people who want to be like the same star, but everyone's basic conditions are different, so the final effect will be different.
And how does a plastic surgeon develop a sense of beauty?
Jin Handle key: Frankly speaking, when we choose this profession, we should have full confidence in our own aesthetic sense. However, long-term surgical experience is also an important factor.
Plastic surgery, a modern medicine born of war
"In 600 BC, an Indian surgeon introduced a method of using a patient's forehead to reconstruct an external nose, the Indian nasal reconstruction. The size of the nose was marked off with a leaf, the same size of tissue was removed from the forehead, and the tip of the nose was sewn together to form an outer nose.
The history of plastic surgery can be traced back to 600 BC in India, but plastic surgery really gained more acceptance after the outbreak of World War I. In "A Flowing Meal," Hemingway's memoir of his life in Paris from 1921 to 1927, he wrote of the facelifted World War I veterans: "The skin on their faces was as bright as a flattened ski run."
Plastic surgery as modern medicine was born in World War I. Millions of people were maimed in the brutal war and required delicate surgical treatment. Surgeons were faced with cracked skulls, severe facial burns, shattered jaws and gunshot wounds to the nose and lip - injuries of a type and severity never seen before. Britain, France, and Germany set up specialized hospitals where physicians, surgeons, and dentists worked together to develop new methods of trauma treatment, and the United States, though ostensibly neutral, soon joined Allied rescue efforts. A report in The New York Times at the time said: "The skill of American dentists is unmatched and is greatly respected in France."
After World War I, the seeds of cosmetic surgery began to germinate in the public mind. One calls it "the wondrous and sudden consequence of war," for when it is known that if "a soldier's face has been torn apart, by the miraculous operation of plastic surgery, a new face can be produced and an almost normal life can begin," then "why should not the face of a woman who has been worn out by age be restored to youth?" For example, if "a new nose can help a war veteran get a job and get married," then "for the general public, can a new nose also improve their chances of getting a job and getting married?"
The dispute continued until World War II began. Attention turned to healing the faces and bodies of those who had been scarred by war. However, when the Second World War ended and there were not so many men needing plastic surgery, many women were brought into the eye of plastic surgeons, and many women's magazines, and women themselves, were very supportive of plastic surgery. The postwar youth-oriented social culture also contributed to the boom in plastic surgery.
But in the decades since, cosmetic surgery has not been much developed. It wasn't until 1960 that cosmetic surgery, including wrinkle removal and breast augmentation, gained widespread acceptance. With many middle-class women hoping to restore their youth and appearance through surgery, a new market has been created for cosmetic surgery. "The social and psychological legitimacy of cosmetic surgery, which had been established before the war, led to the acceptance of a change in appearance, and many middle-class American women believed that it was easier to change their appearance than to change the traditional culture." In the 1970s, feminists saw plastic surgery as a weapon against women in a patriarchal society. But in 1988, when the movie star Cher removed two of her own ribs in order to maintain her body shape, the famous feminist magazine Ms. But it's a lot of praise.
In The Envy of Venus: A History of Human Plastic Surgery, the author attributes the current trend to an individual's sense of helplessness in a crowded, complex world. But whatever the controversy over plastic surgery, if someone is willing to pay the price (money and pain), willing to trade tomorrow's pain for today's pleasure, so long as it doesn't hurt others, why should we stop them?
