The boom in South Korea's plastic surgery faces a backlash as some whose hopes of enhacing their features end in misery. Full Story: Kim Bok-soon disliked her nose. She'd heared of a superstitious belief that its shape was a drain on money. She went ahead with plastic surgery despite her family's objections. She had 15 operations. But when the bandages came off, she knew something was wrong. Only later she found out her doctor was not a plastic surgery specialist. [Kim Bok-Soon, South Korean Botched Plastic Surgery Patient]: "He ruined my face. This is not a human face. It's more revolting than monsters or aliens. It is so horrible." Another woman, who only gave her surname Park, went to the same doctor. The divorcee wanted to make her breasts bigger in the hope of finding another husband. Instead, after a series of infections, her right breast ended up half the size of the left one. [Park, South Korean Botched Plastic Surgery Patient Who Only Gave Her Surname]: "I regret... ( More) |
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