Perfect Face (translated Documentary)
About This Novel
Becoming beautiful always comes at a price. Doing medical beauty, too. Go deep into the Korean medical beauty industry and uncover the full picture of medical beauty needs. "Porchlight" one of the annual business books, "New York Post" must-read list. Personally, it is natural to love beauty. However, people seem to be increasingly trapped in so-called beauty standards, which create a seemingly endless feedback loop - an endless stream of beauty "problems" that require more and more beauty products and cosmetic plastic surgery to solve. Moreover, the idea of beauty has penetrated into people's values through the media and the popularity of K-pop stars, setting highly stereotyped beauty standards not only for women, but men and even children are not immune. For a country, the obsession with beauty and youth has turned the love of beauty into a service to beauty, leading to all-round consumerism and triggering the explosive growth of the Korean beauty economy, which has become very important in the national economy. This, in turn, has encouraged the beauty industry to intensify its efforts to create "ideal beauty" standards and promote the primacy of appearance. The booming beauty industry ultimately creates a massive amount of prejudice and social injustice. When this culture of beauty was promoted by individuals and countries, it became the Korean Wave, and even triggered imitations around the world. Social groups, women's organizations, and overwhelmed individuals who opposed being kidnapped by the beauty industry began to stand up, question consumerism, appearance supremacy, and appearance anxiety, reflect on their impact on Korean society and even the world, and remind people that creating their own style is a kind of resistance. Through interviews and personal experience, journalist Elise Hu takes a critical look at the ways in which buzz culture permeates the human body, tracking the personal, social, political and economic impact of a beauty industry large enough to reshape a country.
What Readers Think
Rating
Community(0)
Rating
Community(0)
