‘Round head’ is the latest plastic trend in Korea

Korea has been for long a pioneer of human improvement. Among the plastic surgery procedures popular in the country are the double eyelid surgeries, calf deductions, dimple injections, or double jaw surgeries.

In traditional Korea, plastic surgery was a violation of Confucian precepts, which also discouraged blood donation, organ donation, and cremation. However, plastic surgery has become lately a way to impress others, like buying expensive designer clothes. The main patients are young women entering the job market or marriage. They all think that they must look good in order to survive competition.

Korean society has become nowadays more open about the plastic surgery practice and in the same time the procedures have become increasingly eccentric and extreme. People are not satisfied anymore with double jaw surgery, nose jobs or pairing down cheekbones. Now even young girls shopping around for plastic surgery, especially in Seul’s beauty belt. Parents promise their daughter plastic surgery procedures such an eye or nose job if she passes her entrance exam for college.

One consequence of the boom in plastic surgery is that young women start to look increasingly alike. They all come in with photos of celebrities or starlets who they want to copy. The consensus in Korea about what makes a pretty face is a smaller and shapely defined face, with a Westernized look.

Another consequence of the plastic surgery boom is that South Korea is increasingly gaining a reputation as a plastic surgery destination and Seul has become a kind of plastic surgery capital of the world. The technology is cutting edge and the doctors are highly skilled. That makes people from around the world to come here and have their chins thinned, their noses tweaked and their fat removed. And it is not only a female things, as men make up around 30 percent of the patients of plastic surgery clinics.

There are plenty of plastic surgery procedures performed in South Korea, so nothing used to surprise as anymore until we heard of the latest trend. “Round head” is latest plastic trend in Korea now. The surgical plastic procedure involves a small incision and inserting a kind of bone cement in order to create a round head shape. The bone cement becomes part of the bone, adhering to the skull. It adds between 20 and 80 grams to the previous weight of the patient’s head.

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