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“God didn’t give me a perfect face. I had plastic surgeries over 100 times since I was 13 years old.”
Zhou Chuna (周楚娜), a 16-year-old high school student living in Shanghai, China, posted the post on Weibo, a social network service (SNS) last March, and released her plastic diary. He confessed that he has been performing more than 100 plastic surgeries, including double eyelid and nose surgery, and breast enlargement through autologous fat injection, spending 4 million yuan (about 680 million won) from the age of 13 to the present.
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600 million won, 100 times of plastic surgery… “Wounded under the demeaning of appearance”
Chuna released 10 photos of the cosmetic process on social media. In the photo, the number of plastic surgery and items such as the first double eyelid surgery photo at the age of thirteen years old from the face of a child who had not had plastic surgery at all, and the nose surgery afterwards, and the number of plastic surgery items, etc., are easily written down.
He said, “Plastic surgery is not to buy other people’s favors, but to self-satisfaction,” he said. “It’s important to fully enjoy the joy of living in the present. No matter how much money you spend, it’s my job. I did.
Chuna has become famous in China with the title of’Youngest, Most Frequent Plastic Surgery Mania’ and has 310,000 followers on social media. As the public’s attention was focused, on the 15th, local media such as the Chinese Youth Report, the Chinese Communist Youth Corps, reported the news one after another.
According to reports, Mr. Chuna was hurt and started plastic surgery when male students used degrading nicknames as a child and deprecated their appearance. Every time they cleaned, boys made easy things to pretty girls and left them dirty and difficult to clean. He decided that there was no breakthrough except for plastic surgery, so he started plastic surgery with consent from his parents.
According to local media, he is currently suffering from side effects such as memory loss due to plastic post-effects and confusion.
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Controversy about having 7-year-old daughter have double eyelid surgery ahead of school opening
In September of last year, getting my seven-year-old daughter to have plastic surgery became a hot topic. At the time, the photo uploaded to Weibo with the article “I was seven this year and gave me double eyelid surgery” contained the image of a young girl who had just finished plastic surgery. His face looks young at a glance, and his eyes were swollen with double eyelid surgery marks.
Netizens who saw this photo responded with “too much”. It is pointed out that it is too much to have her daughter, who is only seven years old, undergo double eyelid surgery due to her obsession with her appearance. According to netizens, this student is known to have undergone plastic surgery before the school opens in September.
China’s Pengpai Newspaper reported, “The phenomenon of plastic surgery is becoming less aging,” and “Every summer vacation is’student plastic surgery season’, and a lot of students from junior high school to college students do plastic surgery intensively during this period.”
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Popularity of plastic surgery due to the development of Korean Wave and SNS… Aging trend
As such, the plastic craze of young students in China has been hot recently. It is an analysis that the demand for plastic surgery is exploding due to the influence of the Korean Wave such as Korean dramas and idols and the increase in national income.
On the 15th, the Chinese Youth Report reported on the 15th that a plastic surgery craze is blowing around young students due to the craze for appearance. The media said, “Adolescents account for 15.48% of the Chinese medical and beauty consumption market,” and “double eyelid and nose surgery have become introductory items for plastic surgery.”
In particular, after taking the Kaokao (SAT) in China in May every year, students visit the plastic surgery clinic in the summer. A doctor who has been running a plastic surgery clinic in Chongqing, China for nearly 20 years, said in an interview with the Chinese Youth Report, “Every June is the peak of plastic surgery for domestic candidates, and in April, international students return to Korea and undergo a lot of plastic surgery.”
A plastic surgeon in Beijing also said in an interview with the media, “There are more and more young students who visit plastic surgery clinics, especially parents who bring them to do plastic surgery,” he said. “One father saw the face of a daughter who had just finished double eyelid surgery. “There were times when we asked if we needed to get additional cosmetic surgery, such as whether we should get a facial reduction injection.”
The appearance of the plastic surgery clinic cluster in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. Photo = News 1
The middle plastic surgery fever is hot… Medical and beauty market size exceeded ’30 trillion’
The relevant market is growing steeply. According to the’China Medical and Beauty Market Trend Report’ released by Deloitte, the world’s four major accounting firms, the size of the Chinese medical and beauty market, which was 66.4 billion yuan in 2015 (approx. ), which showed an annual growth rate of 28.7%.
It is expected to show an annual growth rate of 15.2% in 2020-2023. It is predicted that by 2023, the number of cosmetic consumers will reach 25.48 million. As a result of the survey, when plastic surgery is performed in China, the first or second (major) cities are selected as the best area for plastic surgery overseas. It has been shown that they place importance on official approval, recognition, and word of mouth, such as illegal plastic surgery business.
According to the ‘2020-2024 China Plastic Cosmetics Market Investment Analysis and Prospect Report’ released last year by the Zhongtoo Industry Research Institute, the size of the medical and beauty market continues to grow as Chinese consumers’ consumption levels increase and their desire for beauty grows. The report explained, “Currently, China is growing into the world’s second-largest meaningful market in the plastic surgery market,” and “consumer demand is exploding especially due to the development of internet culture.”
As of the end of 2019, there are about 30,000 plastic surgeons across China. However, local medical experts point out that it is inappropriate to recommend excessive plastic surgery to minors.
Unlike adults, children have yet to grow their skeletons, so if they have plastic surgery, they are exposed to dozens of times more risk than adults. A plastic surgeon in Beijing advised through local media that “plastic surgery under the age of 18 is not recommended,” saying, “If you perform plastic surgery in a state that is not fully developed, it can lead to bad results.”
Joara, reporter of Hankyung.com [email protected]