Mental health concerns rise with cosmetic surgery
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Mental health concerns rise with cosmetic surgery boom

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“This is the nose you’ll see most if you go clubbing these days,” said Sumi Lee, a university student in Seoul. She gestured to an ad for a posh plastic surgery clinic, showcasing “before and after” images of a rhinoplasty patient.
“I call it the Gangnam nose, and half of my friends have it. If I could afford it, I’d get it too.”
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Lee isn’t alone. A country renowned for its dramas, music and high tech culture is swiftly becoming famous for surgically altered faces. The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reported that Korea has the second highest rate of plastic surgery procedures per capita in the world after Hungary.
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A survey conducted by the Seoul city government reported over 50 percent of women under the age of 30 went under the knife in 2011, and 31.5 percent of participants over the age of 15 expressed intentions of having surgery in the future.
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Last year, the Ministry of Education distributed a booklet aimed at educating students about “plastic surgery syndrome,” or the unhealthy preoccupation with surgery.
 
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“It isn’t uncommon for students to return from vacation with a new nose or double-lidded eyes,” says Sheri Grant, a high school teacher in Seoul. “I had one girl come back that I didn’t even recognize; she had her entire face made over.”
 
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What had inspired this penchant for shape-shifting in a nation where traditional Confucian teachings depict the body as “a cherished ancestral inheritance?”
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From an evolutionary perspective, women’s desire for beauty is instinctual, so understanding it is helpful in distinguishing the “healthy” from the “unhealthy.”
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Reports by prominent Korean match-making services reveal that marriage-seeking women prioritize the following attributes in ascending order: Economic capacity/occupation, personality, family background, appearance.
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Men, however, in similar surveys answered in the following order: Beauty, personality, economic capacity/occupation, family background.
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The results show that for women, a good job out-ranks a handsome face. But for men, beauty comes before brains and bucks.
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Another contributing factor might be the nature of the Korean cosmetic industry itself, which is especially attractive to ambitious medical students.
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