I Want A Gangnam Style Face: S. Korea's Bizarre Surgery Trend

The K-pop effect - South Korea: How South Korea's youth are turning to surgery in an attempt to look like pop stars. For similar stories see Academic Pressure Pushing S. Korean Students To Suicide https://youtu.be/TXswlCa7dug China's Tortured Beauties: Make Me Look Western https://youtu.be/QRp6seV9pYs The Australian K-pop Sensation https://youtu.be/SZOu1NnAyAM Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=65136 Viral sensastion 'Gangnam style' sparked imitations worldwide. Yet closer to home, the dream to be like such K-Pop idols is driving young South Koreans to a darker level of imitation: plastic surgery. "Once people graduate almost all of them get double-eyelid surgery", explains Gina, who recently left high-school. "In Korea they say, 'please make my nose into the style of this star'." In the district that is home to K-Pop's major entertainment companies there are over 300 plastic surgery clinics on a single street. But some fear this growing beauty obsession is threatening young people's sense of identity; "they treat their body as a product. They are losing the meaning of who they are". Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures Ref-5773