Pretty???
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xblood_is_yummyx — 20 years ago(November 28, 2005 04:33 PM)
What if a child is born with a terribly deformed face? If plastic surgery can be used to help that child and let them lead a normal life without people pointing and whispering at them, can you really say then that the surgery is an immoral act?
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jamhead-3 — 19 years ago(February 08, 2007 09:04 AM)
I don't think anyone's trying to define your nation. I've lived in Seoul for a few years now. Yes, a lot of people, especially women, have their eyes done. It's a simple fact. Not too many days go by when I don't see a woman with inappropriately dark sunglasses on, on a cloudy day. Most women admit to it also, if not flaunt their new eyes. The ads are everywhere, on the subways, billboards, newspapers, for cosmetic surgery specialists.
The Korean entertainment industry is putting out some great works, but it is still new by global staandards. Sometimes it plays catch-up by copying or exaggerating western music trends and pop fashion, even appearances (eyes).
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cterceira — 17 years ago(May 10, 2008 05:01 PM)
From what i have seen in my life (I a white American who has spent 8 years in Korea, I am married to a Korean, and I have 2 Korean step children who are at the age where these issues start to come up (17 and 18)) Korea at this point in time is the most plastic surgery crazed nation I have ever been in. I have very few women under the age of 45 who DO NOT have or want plastic surgery. My daughter has already gotten her eyes done (which I did not agree with, because i do not think plastic surgery is right, but it was her choice with her body) and now she wants more. When asking her why, she explained in depth how Korean pop culture is now pushing the younger generation to believe that what are traditional "Korean/East Asian" features to be less than attractive. I personally see this everynight when I go home and throw on an SBC, MBC, MNet, OCN, CGV, or other Korean channel and see women and men who have altered their faces to look less Korean. If you are truely a Korean who lives in Korea than you know 100% that what I am saying is true, but you don't want to let someone who is not of your culture speak poorly of it.
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sweetswan — 20 years ago(June 03, 2005 10:36 AM)
imdb's right.
that's the reason why she speaks korean fluently.
this is a big difference between she and daniel dae kim.
sorry to say this, but his korean is totally broken.
i'm just guessing he couldn't get any chance to learn formal korean because his family immigrated to the us when he was two years odl.
within that in mind, i hope that he'll be more than just another korean-american actors with poor Korean.
ps)
that chosun article is obviously wrong.
chosun requires us to pay our precious time too much making us read its concoction of incorrect facts carefully.
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bloodsoup — 20 years ago(June 16, 2005 07:36 AM)
Standards of beauty, choice and conformity are only moral issues if you make them moral issues. Morals aren't inherent in anything. They are imposed values. While I personally think that people putting a knife to their face so they can look like Angelina Jolie is quite silly, it is their choice. It don't think it should be judged in terms of right or wrong. If conformity is a moral issue, then you have to condemn all forms of repetition and sameness, which in my mind is just way too much of a moral high ground. A politics which encourages difference and thinking outside the box doesn't have to founded on moral grounds, for it to work. You don't have to condemn something as 'immoral' to take action against it, which seems to the strategy of the political right (at least in ame5b4rica) in my opinion. If anything, an effective strategy against conformity would be one that intentionally situates itself outside conventional moral discourses, which in themselves tend to become tired and repetitive.