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Why is South Korea facing a beauty backlash?

South Korea has often been described as the plastic surgery capital of the world. An estimated one in three women between the ages of 19 and 29 has gone under the knife. But a radical feminist movement is calling for an end to Korea’s impossible beauty standards.

So can Korea break its beauty obsession?

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22 Replies to “Why is South Korea facing a beauty backlash?”

  1. I think natural East Asian eyes are gorgeous and would never get surgery to look Western.

  2. Dark and light or in between is beautiful. End of story and I sure as hell love my skin and love that I am black wouldn't trade it for the world 😍💋

  3. I love their eyes. No need to change them they are beautiful. however to each their own!

  4. Women hold they’re selves down.
    These is less and less reasoned
    Discussion, and now just a lot of whining.

  6. คุณอารยา ภาษาอังกฤษดีมากค่ะ👏🏼

  9. Artificial beauty doesn't make sense in fact corrupted people always do insane things, south Korea should have president like kim jong un a president who doesn't tolerate nonsense.

  10. Each to it’s own, I love long hair and make up, looking very attractive is very very important to me.

  11. I am a heterosexuality Asian man, and I think Summer Lee is cute with and without make up. I hope one day people will wake up and realized that esthetic beauty comes from good health and not from harmful chemical products.

  12. I used to love dramas made by kpop. But after watching it, kpop makes me feel disappointed.

  14. The beauty standards thing is just a tip of the iceberg. There are so many other ideas that Korean people often judge and criticize other people based off of. From my experience, koreans have a very strong will to satisfy their need for the sense of belonging. I think all the judging and excluding come from that will to belong and be the same as everyone else.

    Korea as a nation developed way too fast like no nation has ever done, and the result is an unhealthy society. The growth of this unhealthiness is exponential when paired with things like social media.

    But who tf am i to say a society is healthy or unhealthy. I guess every nation have ugly sides.

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  21. I love Summer! She's going places! ❤ There needs to be more brave people like her in South Korea. She's amazing and I am definitely going to pray to all the Gods that she continues on this beautiful path she's set for herself.

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