Yoon Eun Hye korea  Crossing the Lines: The Trends Reshaping
Women’s Bodies in Korea  So wrote Dodai Stewart, in a recent
article on Korean plastic surgery for the feminist website
Jezebel. And who can blame her for the negative impression she
leaves? Learning about what Koreans will do for that perfect
âV-line’ jaw is enough to make anyone cringe. What’s more,
with Korea having the highest per-capita number of plastic
surgery operations in the world, then it’s often in relation to
Koreaânot their home countriesâthat people first realize the
lengths some will go to for the sake of their appearance. So,
when they do, it’s only natural to process that new information
by concluding that only Koreans take things to such crazy
extremes. Certainly, in one of only two countries in the OECD
where it’s legal to demand photographs on resumes (the other is
Japan), and the only one where young women are getting more
underweight than obese, then no one can deny that appearance
matters a great deal here. And it’s als