John124
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COPE AVG ASIAN DOESN'T GIVE FK ABOUT EYELID AND CAN'T AFFORD SURGERY.
The World Capital of Plastic Surgery
Welcome to Seoul’s so-called Improvement Quarter—hundreds of plastic-surgery clinics in one square mile.
www.newyorker.com
South Koreans do not merely brood about their physiognomy. They put their money where their mouths—and eyes and noses—used to be. By some estimates, the country has the highest rate of plastic surgery per capita in the world. (Brazil, if you want the title you’re going to have to lift a few more rear ends.) The United States has sagged to No. 6, though we still have the greatest total number of procedures. It has been estimated that between one-fifth and one-third of women in Seoul have gone under the knife, and one poll reported by the BBC puts the figure at fifty per cent or higher for women in their twenties. Men, by one account, make up fifteen per cent of the market, including a former President of the country, who underwent double-eyelid surgery while in office. Statistics in this field are iffy because the industry is not regulated and there are no official records, but we’ll get to that in a grimmer paragraph.