Comments on: Oprah? Culturally insensitive?

By: gmblng

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By: angie

angie — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:07:57 +0000

i really like your observations. i completely agree with you

By: The Marmot's Hole Women flock to plastic surgeons for Jun Ji-hyun and Lee Hyo-ris Ars

Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:21:24 +0000

[...] utt in Korea. You might also recall said Korean daily ran a piece on the shitstorm Oprah Winfrey [...]

By: hardyandtiny

hardyandtiny — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:45:21 +0000

Hardyandtiny, you?€™re wrong, BTW and what Lisa reported is accurate.

Okay, I’m wrong.

By: Mizar5

Mizar5 — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:46:33 +0000

Hmmm…I never much liked Oprah before this. Telling it like it is and educating our women about the primitiveness of their thinking earns her points for honesty.

Hardyandtiny, you’re wrong, BTW and what Lisa reported is accurate. Women do try to hide surgery from their in-laws, who are demanding to see childhood photos. It’s not that eyelid surgery isn’t obvious enough - it’s just Korean denial at work again. Some of our women do have natural eyelid folds. Most don’t. I can tell the difference right away, but that doesn’t keep girls from denying it.

By: non korean

non korean — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:37:55 +0000

Another example of Korea being way over sensitive. I wonder how the media is so tuned into Korea’s image around the world sometimes.

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:56:21 +0000

This surgery thing is crazy. I told one Korean friend not to get fixed because there was nothing wrong with her eyes whatsoever! If people have no eye for beauty it is not her fault. Besides, if I ever did that botox treatment, I would probably end up looking too much like Christopher Walken . . .

By: hardyandtiny

hardyandtiny — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:53:25 +0000

“Do I detect some sarcasm there hardyandtiny?”

nope, no sarcasm.

By: Jing

Jing — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:46:28 +0000

lol, that reminds me of a news article I read a couple months ago about a man in China divorcing his wife. They had a baby and he thought it looked really ugly, it turns out his wife had plastic surgery before they met. He even sued her for fraud.

By: jodi

jodi — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 04:03:21 +0000

i’m not so sure about that idea of korean women being so open about the fact they’ve had work done. of course, they are probably very open about it to other women or to foreigners, but my best friend who is engaged, has had work done and she told me her future husband would break off the wedding if he knew the truth. actually, i’ve heard this from other korean women before–not just her. while it is true that it doesn’t take a genius to see who has gone under the knife and who hasn’t, it seems to be that for korean men, “ignorance is bliss” and they’d just rather not know that their girlfriends or wives are artificially beautiful–at least they’d rather not hear it. it’s like they want to live in a fantasy world where it doesn’t exist if it’s not brought up. so much for loving one for who they are and not how they look…but as was mentioned, it’s no secret that it happens and that it’s common. i’ve had men simply assume i’ve had work done (which kind of bothered me as i haven’t…)