With grueling university entrance exams finally behind them, exhausted South Korean students are now choosing their reward — plastic surgery.
A number of plastic surgery hospitals have taken advantage of a recent trend by some parents to reward their children for years of hard study with plastic surgery, offering substantial discounts for eye and nose operations.
Popular surgeries include "Westernizing" the nose to give it an upward tilt and double-eyelid surgery to make eyes look bigger, which is especially popular with young women.
"We already had a long reservation list with names of students even before they took the test," the manager of one hospital told the JoongAng Daily.
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Wow! That's a shame that so many young, Korean people feel the need to make themselves look "Western".
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