/fa/ - Fashion

>>15360564
Capitalism and modern media in general fucking them up. The high standards also seem to be an asian thing. They're already often facing pressure to meet ridiculously high expectations when it comes to academics and career. High standards for appearance and pressure to look a certain way seem like a logical addition.
Being culturally collectivist (although this is changing) means that Koreans don't want to stand out too much, you want to be more attractive than others but not in a way that's too different. Add to this a society where plastic surgery is increasingly normalized and affordable and you end up with a country full of women with the exact same vaguely pretty face.

Kpop and Korean idols don't help either. Imagine if every single popular musician and every person you saw on tv and in movies were bogged in exactly the same way. The same features on pretty much everyone in almost every piece of media.
Would probably fuck you up, both in the beauty standards you apply to other people and in your own satisfaction with your looks. And then imagine you could fairly easily fix it with just a bit of saving up, and you'd look just like the celebrities everyone loves.

Of course the western world has specific standards for what features are considered attractive as well, but there's a way bigger range for it and 'unusually beautiful' faces are applauded rather than shunned. Consider pic related: the 'before' face is interesting and unique. The 'after' pic shows exactly the same plastic Korean face we've seen a thousand times. There's nothing special about it besides how obviously fake it looks. The jaw she had before was eye-catching but not ugly, and the before pic might even be called more attractive than the after pic in the western world.