Blogs & Forums
To further investigate and research my topic, I turned to blogs, forums, and ask sites to help me have a better understanding of what it means to get plastic surgery in Korea and how it affects identity. I've came across a great deal of blogs, forums, and asks that are solely catered to this topic.
Blogs
To get a better understanding of how plastic surgery in Korea affected identity, I turned to blogs that discussed the topic of plastic surgery. Most of the blogs I've found weren't written or documented by Koreans themselves but I did find that other Asian races found themselves flying to South Korea to receive these plastic surgeries.
One of the more interesting blog that I found was written by Emmeline Ang, who on the internet goes by Miss Lemonade. The main content of her blog is about her journey with plastic surgery in Korea. While going through her blog I was able to get a clear understanding of why she wanted plastic surgery. She states that she is a divorcee and after her divorce she decided to change and get plastic surgery. She lets her readers join her journey as she documents her plastic surgery. She shares her before and after pictures and also explains in details what she has gotten.
Most people when they decided on plastic surgery already have an idea what they want to look like afterwards or how they want to change their face/body. Emmeline Ang decided on a well known Asian model to be her inspiration.
I've always been curious as to why people looked towards celebrities for plastic surgery inspiration. After reading her post about wanting to look similar or have some aspects that look similar to the model's features made me question whether if the identity aspect of herself will change too. Although she didn't answer or talk about any change to her identity but as a reader of her blog and a researcher on this topic, I couldn't help but question if she is trying to gain someone else's identity.
Below are some screenshots of her Korean plastic surgery blog post to help give a visual idea of what her plastic surgery journey looked like.
Forums
As I was researching for this topic I've also came across forums that were dedicated to plastic surgery in Korea. These forums had an array of topics that relate to plastic surgery in Korea. Some forums are catered to finding the best plastic surgery clinics in Korea, to getting advice on what kinds of procedures to get, and the cost of these surgeries.
The most interesting forum I have found was on double eyelid surgery. The person who started this forum discussed her double eyelid surgery experience. She posted pictures of her eyes before the surgery, healing process pictures, and after picture of her healed eyes. She also goes into details discussing her consultation with the doctor, how her eye felt after the surgery, the healing process, price of her surgery, and if she recommends it or not.
Looking through these forums made me realize that not just people in Korea want these surgeries but also other races too. It's interesting to see how interested people are in wanting to change their looks that they have forums and blogs dedicated to them.
Below are some examples of the forums that I have found that discuss plastic surgery in Korea.
As I was researching for this topic I've also came across forums that were dedicated to plastic surgery in Korea. These forums had an array of topics that relate to plastic surgery in Korea. Some forums are catered to finding the best plastic surgery clinics in Korea, to getting advice on what kinds of procedures to get, and the cost of these surgeries.
The most interesting forum I have found was on double eyelid surgery. The person who started this forum discussed her double eyelid surgery experience. She posted pictures of her eyes before the surgery, healing process pictures, and after picture of her healed eyes. She also goes into details discussing her consultation with the doctor, how her eye felt after the surgery, the healing process, price of her surgery, and if she recommends it or not.
Looking through these forums made me realize that not just people in Korea want these surgeries but also other races too. It's interesting to see how interested people are in wanting to change their looks that they have forums and blogs dedicated to them.
Below are some examples of the forums that I have found that discuss plastic surgery in Korea.