Hey, guys! Hey, guys!
I'm Nichola. I'm Mr. Gwon.
Or Hugh. Yeah
And we're from the My Korean Husband blog.
and we're going to answer a question today. Yeah.
Ok, so we have a question from..
better than oxygen
oh, and this question is from tumblr
and she wants to know our opinions on plastic surgery are
in South Korea
Do you and Mr. Gwon have friends who have had plastic surgery?
Is it as much as the media indicates?
First off, have we had plastic surgery?
No. Nooo.
If I had..
why I look like this?
aaww, but you're beautiful to me
No Way!
no, we haven't had plastic surgery,
but do we have friends that have had plastic surgery?
A lot. Yes, so many
so many
yeah, I count the people who did, yeah
so many
yeah, there's so.. we have so many Korean friends that have had plastic surgery
I think my opinions have changed a little bit about plastic surgery
Like before, a few years ago, I was like No!
plastic surgery is so bad! Don't do it! Oh my gosh!
Don't do it!
But now I've sort of relaxed a little bit
..about it
So everything we are saying in this video
is just our opinions. We're just talking about our personal experience.
We're not really going pass that much moral judgement or anything like that.
No. Just what our opinions are. Yes.
Because..
people are having plastic surgery in Australia as well
people get things like boob jobs or nose jobs
or their ears pinned back and
I think those things are ok
if it's just the one thing
and it's going to make the person
feel better
feel confident
Yeah, if it's just this one thing they want changed
and they have it done and they're happier
then, I don't really have a problem with that
In Korea, what I sort of find
a bit more distasteful
is the full face
done
there's a word in Korean for that
isn't it? when they..
Song gwae (?) means..
plastic surgeon monster
Yeah. Monster. It's taking it too far.
Yeah, because not only eyes
not only nose..
they get the bone shaving
bone shaving and they put the thing on
under the eye
egg yo sals (?) and that
egg yo sals (?)
and they just make the
the cute
the dimples as well
everything.. so they don't look like the same person
a really different person
Yeah, so I really don't mind
when people just get one thing done
and they're still the same person
but there's people that
transform themselves completely
so..even their friends..they don't look the same
know them..don't recognise them, yeah.
and there are girls..and we actually know or knew
someone that did this
they will..burn..they destroy all their photos from before
I just think that's..like I think they have some obvious problems
if they're doing that
because, I mean, what about their family
you know family wants the photos of when they were young and everything
but they destroy everything
and in my experience the type of girls that
those type of girls are not
very nice girls. Like they've got some issues.
and we've had some things happen
where we've known a girl like that
and she's done terrible, terrible things
Also in our experience
some of the girls that sort of get everything done
they look good in photos, they can look really good in photos, right?
they know how to do the angle and everything
But..angle and the makeup..makeup and everything like that
photoshop
But when you see them up close
there's some strange things going on sometimes
The face is not natural
No, something's wrong.
and I..and I sort of seen..Fake..
a girl like that who's had
she had..well..the girl that we know who had everything done like that
and her eyes were almost really weird at the corners
and they would water sometimes
I mean and that type of surgery is really dangerous
like the bone shaving and everything like that
It's really..really dangerous
and I think that
I think part of the problem with this type of surgery
is that people are expecting their whole life to be changed
they think that if I'm.. look like this pretty girl
I'm going to have a boyfriend. I'm going to have the best job
I'm going to be so great
and if it doesn't happen, I think
people can be very depressed
and you know wonder why they did that
These people addicted of..
Yeah!..of having this surgery. It becomes an addiction.
Yeah, it's really bad, so..
Yeah, I saw many people, even though they don't have enough money
they just get more money from someone
and they just do it again. Just get it done
so that..that's a problem because it's an addiction
And I..there's some people
on media before
and they just..they don't..they didn't have enough money
that's why they just..went to really cheap..place
and they did something wrong
and their face is like monster now
It's really sad. It's dangerous, yeah, yeah
Actually..she..they look much better before they
did the surgery, actually Yep.
Yeah. So we..we aren't of the opinion
Oh my god all plastic surgery is bad
We think a little bit is fine, if it makes the person happy
and like we've got a friend who's a guy that had the injections
just to get rid of..get rid of the dark circles
and you know that's just a minor thing
and he..he looked much better after it
so just those minor things like that
that make somebody happier
but the full out, everything done
I think for me, I think people
you know, I'm not unique anymore
because a lot of the girls end up with the same face
and the girl that we used to know
that had all that done, I thought I would see her on the street all the time
because we have a large Korean population in Sydney
and so many times I'd be walking in the street
and go "Oh, there she..nope
that's somebody else that's had the exact same surgery"
yeah, also some guys also do some plastic surgery these days
What they wou..especially nose
Ok, so guys..guys normally get
Nose job. Nose and eyes
Yeah, I don't..I really..sometimes shave as well
I've seen some photos of some guys that
have sort of had that done and I don't like it at all
Like..I love your eyes. I love how your eyes are
For me, that is the most attractiv..if you were to go and get double eyelids like that,
I wouldn't like that at all, you know
And I don't want you to have a high nose like that
And I love your like your strong jaw like that
That's..what attracted me to you
like on just the purely physical level
So I would hate for you to go get surgery and get all that changed
Yeah
Don't worry, I will not..Yeah, good!
So do you think plastic surgery is as common as the media makes it out?
Like often when there's articles about South Korea
they're like plastic surgery's everywhere
You know, do you think it is?
I think it's pretty close
It is pretty close. Yeah
And if you go to Seoul
or anywhere in Korea, especially in subway
you can see lots of the signs
this was really shocking to me whenever we're in Korea
is you go on the subway and you see these posters
for plastic surgery and they have the before girl and then the after girl
that's supposed to be beautiful, right?
And the before girl usually looks like what a lot of Korean girls look like
and I just find it really confronting that these Korean girls are getting on the subway
and just going home, and they're seeing this advertising
saying that how they look now is bad
and they should have this surgery and they will look better
Like I think that's very damaging and I think that
is why so many girls are getting plastic surgery
And..and you go to these streets, even in Jinju which is
small town. It's small..not a town, but a small city. Small city, yes.
which is a more rural area
there is a street that is all plastic surgery
Yes. Like that
Yeah, and I..I think it's not making people happy
because I think..if..this plastic surgery was making everybody happy
then Korea's happiness index thing
would be higher, but Korea's isn't
Is it? No. Yeaah
So one last thing, do people talk about if they get plastic surgery?
It depends. It depends on the person. Yeah
It depends on the person, but close friends they just talk
because they can't hide. They know of course
One day..one day they look this way and then like
they come back a few weeks later and have completely changed
Yeah, so they just tell, but they don't want other people
to know about this. They just keep a secret.
But people can tell. You can tell
at lot of the time
Some people get it done very, very well. Very well, yeah.
And it's not..you can't see it as easily
There's a lot of surgeries where it's very obvious
and you can see what they've had done.
I mean you can probably name off the different surgeries they've had
They've had the eyes. They've had the nose. They've had the jaw like this
They might have had something done to their mouth
Yeah
So, I don't think plastic surgery...I mean is bad
or it's something stupid, I think if someone need to
it's ok. Do it! It's fine
But not too much
And I think the reason why it is so popular
is because you do have the media saying, "Look, this girl did this
and now she looks really beautiful. Yeess.
I think you have that and you have the advertising everywhere
And you have a society that is very looks focused
So all these things contribute to
people getting plastic surgery like this
Yes, unfortunately, yes. Unfortunately yes.
But a lot of these people don't look natural
up close. Yeah.
So that's my opinion of like knowing a lot of girls that have had stuff done
and knowing girls that have had everything done.
It can be a bit scary up close.
because something is not right
having everything done like that
so I mean if you're going to get something done
just do like one surgery and that's it.
if it's the one thing that you want changed,
and you'll be happy after it's changed. Do that, but
not anything else. No. Yeah.
Ok, so that was quite a serious topic, wasn't it?
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