Looking at global phenomena - Lookism and plastic surgery. ByoungHyun Chun(천병헌)

Main topic : Lookism and plastic surgery

• Name : ByoungHyun Chun(천병헌)

• Date : June 23th, 2015

Intro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_surgery. Walter Yeo

 Since the industrial society, economy of Korea has grown remarkably. Accordingly, a lot of people compete and get the economic wealth. However, excessive competition was discriminated by education background, gender, regionalism and kinship, etc.... Recently, the most problem is the appearance supremacy(Lookism). In the past or today, appearance is a fact that an important factor. In particular, the appearance is an important factor to determine the first impression. But, excessive competition was to accelerate the lookism. Also, these lookism are distinguished the beautiful women and ugly women. So, discrimination of appearance became more intense, women who do not sandwiched between the any group, had been alienated. Women who are marginalized in society can not be a proper social life because of prejudice of lookism. Thus, inevitably women choose the plastic surgery because of lookism.

Lookism and Plastic surgery of Korea

 Because of the Confucian thought of past Korean society, plastic surgery has been received criticism. In the past, Koreans thought that transformation the body that parents gave is undutifulness. On the other hand, today Korea become economically prosperous, so it could afford to be able to enjoy the freedom. Recently, many women(or men) have a plastic surgery, which is testimony to economic affluence Korean society. Also, in Korea society that emphasis on looks, a lot of people try to appeal to own`s appearance. However, excessive competition or lookism is socially problem. For example, corporation personnels have considered that appearance is an important factor in hiring employees, the rest does not look good. Also, discrimination of appearance become more increased, women who do not sandwiched between the any group had been alienated. So, although plastic surgery is painful, some women transform face by using all means.
The irony is that plastic surgery does not fit with the sentiment of Koreans. I thought that generation gaps of older generation with the past Confucian thought and new generation. Therefore, These lookism or plastic surgery may lose the unique personality of the Korean and may lead to negative social problems.(ex. plastic surgery syndrome, side effects and depression etc...)

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