Within this framework, it is also imperative to call attention to that appearance is an significant form of divination, and according to research about fifty percent of South Koreans admit to trusting that one can interpret an individual's personality by merely observing their faces, and this is no small concern in a nation where the right look, both in terms of attire and facial qualities, can have an extremely substantial effect on one's achievement in life (Blum, 2005, p. 115). Choices to endure plastic surgery are thus motivated by the requirement to not only follow aesthetic standards, but also to restructure unfavourable facial features to something more favourable to behold. (Partridge, 1996, p. 31). Whether or not one puts their trusts in appearance or not, what is obvious and irrefutable in the setting of modern South Korean society is that having the proper look has developed into a requirement for many, and especially those who have graduated from a University and are pursuing first time work (Harvard Law Review, 1987, p. 2038). In this framework, two contrarily gendered types of cosmetic surgery have become popular in Korea, namely; kyorhon songhyong (literally 'marriage cosmetic surgery') and chig'op songhyong ('employment cosmetic surgery') (Cullen, 2002, p. 16). For females particularly, matchmaking organizations still normally rate an attractive face as being the most central influence for persons who are pursuing a good marriage equivalent over other assets such as scholastic or personal experience. The proper face is also progressively a decisive issue in attainment of work in a progressively aggressive work market, in a nation where approximately eighty percent of young individuals currently go to college. Countless persons identify plastic surgery as a logical issue, as the right face, pooled with the proper education and cognitive abilities can become ones ticket to an interview, which can be the difference between achievement and disappointment when it comes to finding a job (Millman, 1980, p. 23). Within this context plastic surgery arises as a method of attainment and permitting individuals to prove their intelligence after the fact. Actually, it is for this reason that attractiveness has developed into not only a matter of pride, but of good judgement, the face and body...

Choices to endure surgery are thus considered the smart thing to do, and can express some significant amount of means on the part of those who select to experience it (Cullen, 2002, p. 17).
The important idea here is that merely describing the occurrence of plastic surgery in South Korea chiefly by way of Westernization or by placing sex as an explicatory classification by establishing the demands on females' figures to obey male dominated social norms, basically over-simplifies the sensation. What is developing from this is a more complex picture where plastic surgery in South Korea appears as an instance of arbitration amongst normalized criteria of attractiveness, authorized and unauthorized spiritual and conventional treatises and exercises, general identity, as well as representational practices of growing old, tending to oneself, indicating social position, and pursuing achievement. Therefore, in actuality, choices to endure cosmetic surgery in South Korea are swayed by numerous, occasionally incongruous, still regularly interconnecting elements (Cullen, 2002, p. 19). This is all involved in both the commonness of plastic surgery as well as the sorts of plastic surgeries being performed, and defies basic justifications, which rely on sex or ethnic typecasting.

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