From Reuters Health ...
"A new wrinkle in gifts for Mom and Dad"
"South Koreans traditionally used to say it with flowers or money, but now more are showing love and respect to their parents by giving mum and dad coupons for cosmetic surgery.
Local media has reported a boom in orders this year for botox treatments, face lifts and hair transplants to mark Parents' Day on Monday."
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i came accross your blog and saw this article. here is one of the flip side to asians having cosmetic surgery to look more white. these are asians having surgery to look like other asians. is that progress??
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=5300970
I posted a WSJ article back in March about Asians having plastic surgery to look like Korean soap stars, but I see the link no longer works since it's now in the subscriber archive. Here's a photo that was included in the article. But yeah, in trying to copy the look of Korean actors and actresses, basically it comes down to Asians trying to look more Caucasian with the double eyelids, smaller noses with a bridge, more prominent chins, etc.
It's sad considering how this ideal of Asian beauty is going to be passed from generation to generation among these families. Will each one feel the need to have plastic surgery to be considered beautiful? Double eyelid surgery as a sweet 16 present or a graduation present for a high school graduate? And what about the kids who look at their parents and see no resemblance to their own features? Coming to terms with how you look while you're growing up is hard enough without being faced with a parent, a main role model, who's had surgery and probably views his or her child as having features that need "refining" -- talk about messed up. Progress? Sadly, no, not for Asians.
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