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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/19/korea.beauty/index.html?hpt=C1
>Plastic surgery boom as Asians seek 'western' look
>"If I get the surgery, my eyes will look bigger," explains Min-kyong. Everyone, she says, points out her small eyes. It's why she doesn't think she's a pretty girl. A surgery which cuts a fold into her eyelid to create a double fold will widen her eyes. The effect will also be to give her a slightly more western look.
>"I'm having her do it," says Jang, "because I think it'll help her. This is a society where you have to be pretty to get ahead. She's my only daughter."
>The definition of pretty, explains their plastic surgeon, is not the standard Asian face, but closer to a Caucasian face.
>The Chinese and Korean patients tell me they want to have faces like Americans
>The surgeries, already popular among Koreans, are booming among newly rich, globally competitive, mainland Chinese, explains Dr Kim. About 30% of his patients are international and of that group, 90% are Chinese.