Chinese favor South Korea for Cosmetic Surgery

Chinese favor South Korea for Cosmetic Surgery

By Chandana Banerjee

South Korea is known as the plastic surgery capital of Asia – celebrities in Asia like prefer heading to South Korea for nips and tucks. Now South Korean plastic surgeons are trying to crack the lucrative Chinese market. Chinese in fashion centers such as Shanghai see South Korean plastic surgeons as safer and more skilled than local doctors. Chinese men and women want ears, chins and chests just like the South Korean stars popular in China.

Kim, who runs South Korea's largest plastic surgery hospital BK Clinic and is one of the country's most successful surgeons, envisaged a bonanza in China after noting that 40 Chinese women a month were flying to his Seoul clinic for cosmetic surgery.

"I wanted to be the first Korean surgeon to make inroads into the booming Chinese market," Kim said in an operating room, talking to Reuters while performing eye and nose surgery on a client who will also receive liposuction.

"Unlike South Koreans, most of my Chinese patients come with photographs of a Korean actress and ask me to make them look like her," Kim said, citing two popular stars - Song Hye-kyo and Kim Tae-hee - as having the most mimicked faces.

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