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TO GO WITH Health-SKorea-cosmetic-surgery,FEATURE by Jung Ha-Won This picture taken on May 22, 2013 shows a South Korean woman walking past a street billboard advertising double-jaw surgery at a subway station in Seoul. South Korea's obsession with plastic surgery is moving on from standard eye and nose jobs to embrace a radical surgical procedure that requires months of often painful recovery. AFP PHOTO / JUNG YEON-JE Picture: Afp

Korea’s plastic obsession

In South Korea the ideal ‘look’ is that of a living doll. Tiny, v-shaped jaws, large eyes with double eyelids and carefully dimpled smiles are all the rage. But the plastic surgery obsession is now costing lives.

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