Beautiful Korean Girls: The Search

This is to fulfill Yili's request for cute Korean girls' pictures.

Unfortunately, I failed at this mission because I was too busy gawking at them.

Here's one I took while I was INSIDE of a convenience store while the girl was buying some street food OUTSIDE in the cold.

I was mostly in awe of her because she wore high heels while our exact location was Udo Island which is off Jeju Island. 

She was basically flawless even when we were on the isolated island of an isolated island.

Such an heroine...

Is Korea Mecca of Cosmetic Surgery?

By Jon Huer

Korea Times Columnist 

One of the strangest things observant foreigners notice in Korea is how beautiful the movie and TV actresses are. Indeed, the femme fatales in the movies and television dramas are so strikingly formed and celestially flawless in their features that one is easily convinced, just on the basis of what one sees in these media, that Korean women are the most beautifully blessed females on Earth.

Then the foreigner becomes somewhat puzzled by the fact that he almost never sees such heavenly beauties anywhere else in Korea. The females we encounter on the street, on the subway, or anywhere else in Korea, are so remarkably un-celestial, so ordinary looking, that we almost conclude that Korea has two completely different kinds of females: One incredibly beautiful and the other incredibly plain. The difference is so great that we almost wonder if Providence is involved in this unfair division among Korean females. Sooner or later, perhaps sooner than later, foreign visitors discover the Providence they are thinking about is really a human agent called plastic surgery.

A recent report in The Korea Times was headlined: ``30 Percent of College Students Seek Cosmetic Surgery.'' I am not sure what this percentage really means, as this beautification game is known to have spread to the lowly ranks of society, like waitresses and cashiers, and even to men. But aside from this scientific percentage issue, and perhaps more meaningfully, Korea is universally, and particularly among Asian females, regarded as the Mecca of cosmetic surgery. Korea is rightfully recognized worldwide as the most technically advanced in ``aesthetic'' medicine, as it is now called, and many females from other Asian nations flock to Korea for ``improvement.'' The beautification process, after all, is cosmetic and superficial, not genetic, and it does not positively affect the genetic make-up of their children. All the beautification is only skin deep and stops its goodness at the knife's edge and suture's stitch.

For this reason, it is not uncommon for foreigners to notice that beautiful mothers are often accompanied by their rather not-so-beautiful children. So, big-eyed mothers have small-eyed kids, and perfectly featured mothers are saddled with ugly-faced offspring. The latest is that Korean mothers begin the aesthetic process for their children at a young age so that their trauma is over with as soon as possible. Now, it is human nature to want to look beautiful and the desire of Koreans for beauty can be understood in this context of universal generality. The only problem is that the popularity for artificial beautification seems to be particularly, and one might say unnaturally, strong in Korea, adding to the already established reputation of Korea being a ``strange'' society. Who knows, in the not so distant future, the Korean winner of the Miss World crown might have to return the title when her eyelines or nose begin to unravel, just like the late Michael Jackson