Somebody died in Gangnam from surgery??? | Korean Plastic Surgery Clinic | Forum

There's always a risk that you complications from anesthesia or an operation could arise, and I think there are more stories about it happening in Korea simply due to the amount of surgeries happening in Korea. If you look at the rate of these incidences proportionally to the amount of people getting surgery, it's probably the same as it is anywhere else, if not lower.

Green Lee said
:) Thats good to know, @rad96  u are so knowledgeable haha! Glad to have u around in the forum!!

Thank You!! that lifted my mood haha 

Green Lee said
i read another news piece the other day! It is a big disturbing.... you can read here. Its from the huffington post.  
Is about the south korean plastic surgery culture, what u guys think?

I think it's a cultural thing that we can't look at objectively simply because we were raised differently. According to my Korean friends, appearances are incredibly important over there not only in terms of basic social interactions like making friends and stuff, but even for job interviews/applications and general success outside of small friend groups. I think the first disparity between our culture and Korean culture is the fact that they initially have no reservations regarding cosmetic surgery, but our culture does. Everyone reacts to circumstance and social pressure. I'm sure that if our friends who openly oppose plastic surgery were raised in Korea, they would be wanting it too. We simply can't say something is "disturbing" because it doesn't comply with what we grew up with. And honestly, even though plastic surgery rates are higher than the global average over there, it's not as if everyone walking down the street looks like a model. Most people are just average and pay no mind to the plastic surgery hype.

rad96 said

Green Lee said
i read another news piece the other day! It is a big disturbing.... you can read here. Its from the huffington post.  
Is about the south korean plastic surgery culture, what u guys think?

I think it's a cultural thing that we can't look at objectively simply because we were raised differently. According to my Korean friends, appearances are incredibly important over there not only in terms of basic social interactions like making friends and stuff, but even for job interviews/applications and general success outside of small friend groups. I think the first disparity between our culture and Korean culture is the fact that they initially have no reservations regarding cosmetic surgery, but our culture does. Everyone reacts to circumstance and social pressure. I'm sure that if our friends who openly oppose plastic surgery were raised in Korea, they would be wanting it too. We simply can't say something is "disturbing" because it doesn't comply with what we grew up with. And honestly, even though plastic surgery rates are higher than the global average over there, it's not as if everyone walking down the street looks like a model. Most people are just average and pay no mind to the plastic surgery hype.

I think the more important question would be whether it's healthy to have that kind of emphasis on appearance. I understand it's part of their culture but not all parts of a culture are necessarily good. The real measure of whether it's damaging, though, isn't our criticism of it, it's whether or not the people living in the culture are happy. If it's causing harm to the girls and boys who grow up in that world, then it's damaging. (I'm thinking here about stuff like eating disorders, anxiety disorders, depression, etc. related to appearances.)

There is also a difference between wanting plastic surgery because you think things will magically change - this is the stuff in the article about thinking that they will get a good husband if they could just be prettier - and getting plastic surgery because YOU want to look different, for yourself. It isn't unhealthy to want change for yourself, but it is pretty unhealthy to hate yourself for what you were born with.