“In the wealthy district of Gangnam in Seoul, immortalized in the viral pop hit “Gangnam Style,” there are currently 447 cosmetic surgery clinics packed into an area of about 40 square kilometers (5 square miles). This “beauty belt” neighborhood is the heart of what is often called the cosmetic surgery capital of the world. A Statista survey from 2020, quoted in the Telegraph, found that 25 percent of 19-29-year-old and 31 percent of 30-39-year-old women in South Korea had undergone some form of plastic surgery – meaning that a quarter to a third of adult women in a country of 51 million people have had their face’s biometric signature surgically modified, some more than once.”
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