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Have you ever seen a picture and thought "yeah, that person for sure had plastic surgery, you can see the way the face shape is different."
Or even "oh man, did his eyes get bigger? They got bigger, it must have been surgery."
Or had others try to convince you of the above, even if you didn't want to believe it or didn't want them to spread this information out of fear it might damage an idols' reputation?
We all are aware by now that plastic surgery is quite prevalent in not only South Korea's entertainment industry, but also in the society of the country and weaved into the modern culture. The majority of international fans and adults looking in from the outside can maturely admit that it's the decision of the person getting procedures done and that it shouldn't be judged nor criticized, but there's still a negative stigma to many individuals outside of South Korea that anyone having plastic surgery is bad, fake, false, or somehow changing what they were born with because they were forced to to please others, meet a standard, or because a company they work in forced them to (in the case of entertainment specifically). While this sometimes can be true in the sense that they are pressured into changing how parts of their faces change from peers at school, or older siblings or family members, and even pressure at times from companies to fit a certain look, most have voluntarily gone under the knife or used injections/fillers to change small aspects of their facial features to fit what standard they find to be beautiful.
That aside, it's important that we all take a step back from thoughts of "it's so prevalent in South Korean society so most idols probably get it done/have it done/will have it done" and "because of this, when they look different, it's not just weight loss/gain - it's totally injections/fillers/PS."
Did you know that aside from angles, weight fluctuations, times of day and lighting, distance and other factors, that the focal length of a camera lense can change the visual structure of a person into an almost entirely different person in a matter of seconds? Yep. Take a look at the succession of images in the gif below that shows the same person but from different focal lengths on a camera's lense.
Crazy how perception is changed so easily! Next time someone tries to shove "evidence" of someone changing (especially if they are trying to play it off as negatively), remind them that it isn't there business nor place to judge, and that regardless if it looks like someone might have done something, it could very well be one of many changes that caused someone to look a bit different than "normal" in any given photograph.
Or even "oh man, did his eyes get bigger? They got bigger, it must have been surgery."
Or had others try to convince you of the above, even if you didn't want to believe it or didn't want them to spread this information out of fear it might damage an idols' reputation?
We all are aware by now that plastic surgery is quite prevalent in not only South Korea's entertainment industry, but also in the society of the country and weaved into the modern culture. The majority of international fans and adults looking in from the outside can maturely admit that it's the decision of the person getting procedures done and that it shouldn't be judged nor criticized, but there's still a negative stigma to many individuals outside of South Korea that anyone having plastic surgery is bad, fake, false, or somehow changing what they were born with because they were forced to to please others, meet a standard, or because a company they work in forced them to (in the case of entertainment specifically). While this sometimes can be true in the sense that they are pressured into changing how parts of their faces change from peers at school, or older siblings or family members, and even pressure at times from companies to fit a certain look, most have voluntarily gone under the knife or used injections/fillers to change small aspects of their facial features to fit what standard they find to be beautiful.
That aside, it's important that we all take a step back from thoughts of "it's so prevalent in South Korean society so most idols probably get it done/have it done/will have it done" and "because of this, when they look different, it's not just weight loss/gain - it's totally injections/fillers/PS."
Did you know that aside from angles, weight fluctuations, times of day and lighting, distance and other factors, that the focal length of a camera lense can change the visual structure of a person into an almost entirely different person in a matter of seconds? Yep. Take a look at the succession of images in the gif below that shows the same person but from different focal lengths on a camera's lense.
Crazy how perception is changed so easily! Next time someone tries to shove "evidence" of someone changing (especially if they are trying to play it off as negatively), remind them that it isn't there business nor place to judge, and that regardless if it looks like someone might have done something, it could very well be one of many changes that caused someone to look a bit different than "normal" in any given photograph.
