Korean%20Plastic%20Surgery.pdf
My cultural project was on plastic surgery in Korea. I was interested in this topic because I noticed that the Korean standards of beauty are very different than those of the U.S. It seems everyone in Korea wants to be pale, skinny, have a slim face, double-eyelids, dye their hair, and make their eyes bigger. This is all I see in pictures of Korean celebrities. Even the skinny Korean girls seem to be talking about jaw-line surgery to slim down their face. High school students are asking their parents for double-eyelid surgeries for graduation presents. I know many people in the U.S get plastic surgery but I feel like among non-celebrities it is not really a big thing. But I think Korea's high standards of beauty may be linked to just striving to be the best in general, as Korea's main resource is its people. However, I think this puts a lot of pressure on people to strive to be the ideal person, whether it is beauty or intelligence and as a result, the stress and suicide rates increase every year.
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