SBS recently ran a program on 43-year-old woman who, well, you just have to see the photos (WARNING: photos may be disturbing to some viewers). Quite a beautiful woman when she was younger, Ms. Han — a former singer — became a plastic surgery addict. Unhappy about her chin, she started getting illegal silicon injections. Unfortunately, she got hooked on them, and began hearing voices in her head telling her to put more and more in. When she couldn’t get silicon, she started self-injecting paraffin and even bean oil into her face, which is now three times as large as a normal person’s.
Viewers were moved by the SBS program, with some women who were thinking about plastic surgery apparently changing their minds.
Ms. Han is currently undergoing treatment for schizophrenia. Upon recovery, doctors hope to repair her face through, well, plastic surgery. SBS is talking with the hospital about expenses and considering helping Han out on its own.
I just hope no one tells Oprah.
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God - that poor woman. Normally I wouldn’t comment about something like this but I really feel sorry for the woman. She was extremely beautiful when she was young. Like one of the readers on the linked page said “????¤Œ?§? ?™”??´?Œ…”
what’s the percentage of young women undergoing this sort of plastic surgery?
I heard it’s pretty high.
The percentage of young women undergoing “this sort” of “plastic surgery” is, thank God, very small. This woman became addicted to the idea of preserving or improving her looks, and at some point lost her mind and started stuffing her face (literally) with insane substances. This story has very little relationship to plastic surgery, and more relationship to insanity.
What the fuck is that?! That can’t be real? What doctor would do that to a patient?
mac, no doctor did that to her. she did ‘that’ to herself.
That is pretty awful considering how pretty she was when she was younger. Suddenly Michael Jackson doesn’t look so bad.
“some” bodybuilders have been injecting “synthol” and like in their musles for years. It’s a dumb thing to do but some like the look.
THIS HOWEVER has gone beyond anything I can imagine. My guess is the sylicone poisoned her system and the neurosis is a result of it.
Someone asked what percentage of women have plastic surgery in Korea, here are some stats.
http://www.nationmaster.com/gr.....la_sur_pro
I think her mental illness has some similarities with anorexic nervosa where she never gets satisfied with her looks
MoneyToday reports that SBS has said it will rebroadcast the show on December 1st, with the proceeds to go the unfortunate Ms. Han for her recovery and surgery costs. Also the netizens have rallied around her and have set up a candlelove webpage complete with donation POCs.
That is absolutely horrid…
My wife watched this program on TV just the other night. She told me the woman is mentally ill. After she got surgury she heard “voices” telling her to inject her face with some kind of mixture of chemicals. My wife wasn’t clear on what they were exactly but common household products. Her family paid for her to get surgury again and she went right back to injecting her face with chemicals AGAIN!!!
I am amazed that - after the way her face has blown up - hair still continues to grow from her haid and that she can apparently lie down and touch her face without great pain.
It’s a terrible story. All the best to her.
You get a rather different perspective on that data when you click here:
http://www.nationmaster.com/gr.....ur_pro_cap
Although, interestingly, South Korea is also low on the per-capita chart.
I’m impressed by the Swiss, though.
Yeah I saw that a few nights ago. Like a living caricature. I wonder why she did that.
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oh…..it is so sad,,,,i hope she get through treatment for schizophrenia as fast as she can and get a surgery. be strong~~
Funny how Koreans try to somehow exonerate themselves of the common label of them being overly superficial, insecure with their looks when it doesnt take a fool to even spend 1 or 2 days in Korea or around Koreans to know that plastic surgery is such a common part of their culture as kimchi. Hell, in a country where its own president has resorted to reconstructive surgery for getting double eyelids, any claim refuting this overly obvious fact is laughable.
Yeah, that site which kimbop posted is a favorite among Koreans on the internet who try to use it as a way of saying that Korea is not as superficial, vain and obsessed with cosmetic surgery as everyone claims. However, they fail to mention that the term “plastic surgery” in most common statistics refer to any type of reconstructive surgery used for accident victims, disfigurement and almost 95% of the time encompassing ortheopedic countermeasures.
The real measuring stick would be “cosmetic surgery” or “beauty surgery” where you will find Korea at the #1 spot in the list hands down.
http://www.time.com/time/asia/.....story.html
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/ asia-pacific/newsid_1435000/1435547.stm
www2.law.columbia.edu/course_ 00S_L9436_001/2000/surgery.htm
The list goes on. Just enter “cosmetic surgery” and “korea” into Google and see the hits come up in numbers so high it would take a week to go through them all.
But then again, there is nothing wrong with this. I guess Koreans feel embarassed with admitting the truth because it will show the truth of their insecurity regarding their outward appearance and their obsession with looks and narcissism. I guess denying it is a more convenient option, but you have to really think how far they can rely on this tactic before the normal person sees the reality with his/her own eyes. I grew up my entire life of 32 years in the US and in my dealings never knew a single person who had cosmetic surgery. Furthermore, I have almost 50 more aquaintnaces from all around the Far East (Taiwan, Japan, China, Vietnam) and know of only 2 among those 40 who received the standard eye surgery.
However, within spending less than only 3 months in Korea, among just 15 of the female aquaintances I came to know, 9 of them (more than half) revealed that they had either done the “ssangapul” surgery or had a nose job to narrow down their typically Korean “flat” nose. One girl even revealed to me that she had a bizarre “jaw grinding” procedure done which I had never even heard of and is supposedly unique to Korea because of the specific Korean phenotype which it supposedly addresses. To tell you the truth, she looked almost like a fish because of the extent to which the side of her face was rounded.
I guess it would not be such a big thing for Koreans to comfortably admit this part of your culture if it were not for the fact that they also love to brag about how they are the most beautiful or tallest people among all of Asia. Also, the fact that they curse and show utter contempt, make fun of, and think of themselves as superior to westerners while burning the US flag is even more ridiculous when they spend half of their salary trying to carve their faces up to make themselves look less typically Korean and more caucasian.
I take it as you have some issues with Korea, Todd.
Nope, not at all. Just telling it like it is. I take it more that most people don’t like to hear the truth. Denial or shifting the topic/blame is oh so much more convenient, wouldn’t you say so Robert?
Perhaps. But not as convenient as, say, broad generalizations.
“todd,” whose sock are you? You just cut and pasted a bunch of different shit from other people’s sites–no matter how you slice it, that’s still spam.
However, they fail to mention that the term ??lastic surgery??in most common statistics refer to any type of reconstructive surgery used for accident victims, disfigurement and almost 95% of the time encompassing ortheopedic countermeasures.
I have my doubts as to whether the Korea stats are as thorough as they should be, but a close look at the data (Kimbob’s page provides a link to more thorough data at the bottom, directing you to the source, the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery) indicates that, your contention notwithstanding, the surgery stats in question are primarily cosmetic:
Botox Injection 13.91%
Breast Augmentation 10.56%
Lipopasty 10.17%
Blepharoplasty 9.09%
Rhinoplasty 7.08%
Breast Reduction 5.64%
Facelift 5.45%
Abdominoplasty 4.85%
Fat Injection 3.54%
Breast Lift 3.30%
Restylane Injection 3.27%
Chemical Peel 3.02%
Lip Augmentation 2.69%
Collagen Injection 2.55%
Perlane Injection 2.40%
Otoplasty 1.73%
Forehead Lift 1.60%
PMMA Injection 1.48%
Chin Augmentation 1.43%
Dermabrasion 1.36%
Laser Skin Resurfacing 1.18%
Upper Arm Lift 1.11%
Hydrogel Injection 0.87%
Thigh lift 0.37%
Buttocks Lift 0.35%
Cheek Implants 0.34%
Lower Body Lift 0.32%
Hair Transplantation 0.18%
Gynecomastia 0.14%
I could be wrong, though, and people are actually getting into accidents calling for Botox injections and breast augmentation.
Sure, Roh Moohyun got blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery); he also got a lot of ridicule for it. But is that so unique? Didn’t US Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry get Botox? That’s what Jib-Jab taught me.