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July 19, 2003, 08:29
Plastic Beauties
Ralph Waldo Emerson adalah seorang penulis terkenal di Amerika yang hidup pada tahun 1803 - 1882, pernah berkata, That if the eyes were made for seeing, then beauty was its own excuse for being."
What I want to talk is 'plastic surgery'. Untuk jaman sekarang plastic surgery - operasi plastik or bahasa kerennya 'oplas' bukan merupakan suatu hal yang aneh, terutama di salah satu negara di Asia yang mulai unjuk gigi such as South Korea. (sebenernya hasilnya sih yang kadang aneh liat aja si King of Pop Michael Jackson itu)
Di Korea sendiri khususnya di kalangan entertainer (makanya pas baru pertama-tama kali nonton K-drama sempet bingung ngeliat korean girls yang cakep-cakep ternyata...), oplas ini sudah merupakan tindakan yang umum dilakukan mulai dari teenager yang usianya masih 14 tahun . Oplas 'wajib' yang biasa dilakukan adalah membuat eye lid (lipatan mata dengan biaya sekitar $800 and believe it or not kalo eye lid operation ini become a favorite high school graduation gift from proud parents!), selain itu masih ada yang gak puas dengan bentuk rahang, lips, nose, cheek, sampai pergelangan tangan! Menurut riset yang dilakukan seorang penulis, angka oplas di Korea sudah mencapai sekitar 13% sedangkan di US sendiri masih di bawah 3% (masih inget gak? demam oplas mirip Britney, Christina Aguilera or Jennifer Lopez yang melanda teenager di Amrik sono tahun lalu?).
Why plastic surgery??
Plastic surgery isn't just popular with those who consider themselves to be unattractive. The operation rate among entertainment industry celebrities, for whom better looks promise a higher chance of making it big, is three times that of the general public in Korea.
Contohnya nih pics di sebelah, her name is Kim Hee Sun (http://www.heeseon.com/) one of the most popular actress in Korea - coba tebak apanya yang dioplas??
Seorang pelajar wanita di Korea meskipun ia adalah lulusan terbaik tapi kalau face-nya unattractive kesempatannya for finding a good job are slim! (gimana kalau punya face gak attractive and have no money buat oplas??)
Satu lagi nih, di Seoul sendiri terdapat sebuah bagian jalan yang terkenal dengan nicknamed 'Plastic Surgery Street' karena disini terdapat lebih dari 400 surgery clinics.
Berikut ini adalah kutipan dari sebuah situs majalah terkenal di US Time :
South Korea is even more competitive than it is conservative. And with so many young people having themselves remade, parents are afraid their children will fall behind, not just academically but aesthetically. "Parents make their kids get plastic surgery," says Dr. Shim Hyung Bo, a plastic surgeon practicing in Seoul, "just like they make them study. They realize looks are important for success." Which means that in today's Korea, getting your eyes done can be easier than getting the keys to dad's car.
Only in Korea?? Rasanya enggak, check this out:
Around Asia, women—and increasingly, men—are nipping and tucking, sucking and suturing, injecting and implanting, all in the quest for better looks. In the past, Asia had lagged behind the West in catching the plastic surgery wave, held back by cultural hang-ups, arrested medical skills and a poorer consumer base. But cosmetic surgery is now booming throughout Asia like never before. In Taiwan, a million procedures were performed last year, double the number from five years ago. In Korea, surgeons estimate that at least one in 10 adults have received some form of surgical upgrade and even tots have their eyelids done. The government of Thailand has taken to hawking plastic surgery tours. In Japan, noninvasive procedures dubbed "petite surgery" have set off such a rage that top clinics are raking in $100 million a year.
tunggu bentar........ Indonesia juga termasuk lho!
Elsewhere in Asia, this explosion of personal re-engineering is harder to document, because for every skilled and legitimate surgeon there seethes a swarm of shady pretenders. Indonesia, for instance, boasts only 43 licensed plastic surgeons for a population of about 230 million; yet an estimated 400 illicit procedures are performed each week in the capital alone. In Shenzhen, the Chinese boomtown, thousands of unlicensed "beauty-science centers" lure hordes of upwardly mobile patients, looking to buy a new pair of eyes or a new nose as the perfect accessory to their new cars and new clothes.
Looks like these days... oplas memang jadi trend ;)
Ralph Waldo Emerson adalah seorang penulis terkenal di Amerika yang hidup pada tahun 1803 - 1882, pernah berkata, That if the eyes were made for seeing, then beauty was its own excuse for being."
What I want to talk is 'plastic surgery'. Untuk jaman sekarang plastic surgery - operasi plastik or bahasa kerennya 'oplas' bukan merupakan suatu hal yang aneh, terutama di salah satu negara di Asia yang mulai unjuk gigi such as South Korea. (sebenernya hasilnya sih yang kadang aneh liat aja si King of Pop Michael Jackson itu)
Di Korea sendiri khususnya di kalangan entertainer (makanya pas baru pertama-tama kali nonton K-drama sempet bingung ngeliat korean girls yang cakep-cakep ternyata...), oplas ini sudah merupakan tindakan yang umum dilakukan mulai dari teenager yang usianya masih 14 tahun . Oplas 'wajib' yang biasa dilakukan adalah membuat eye lid (lipatan mata dengan biaya sekitar $800 and believe it or not kalo eye lid operation ini become a favorite high school graduation gift from proud parents!), selain itu masih ada yang gak puas dengan bentuk rahang, lips, nose, cheek, sampai pergelangan tangan! Menurut riset yang dilakukan seorang penulis, angka oplas di Korea sudah mencapai sekitar 13% sedangkan di US sendiri masih di bawah 3% (masih inget gak? demam oplas mirip Britney, Christina Aguilera or Jennifer Lopez yang melanda teenager di Amrik sono tahun lalu?).
Why plastic surgery??
Plastic surgery isn't just popular with those who consider themselves to be unattractive. The operation rate among entertainment industry celebrities, for whom better looks promise a higher chance of making it big, is three times that of the general public in Korea.
Contohnya nih pics di sebelah, her name is Kim Hee Sun (http://www.heeseon.com/) one of the most popular actress in Korea - coba tebak apanya yang dioplas??
Seorang pelajar wanita di Korea meskipun ia adalah lulusan terbaik tapi kalau face-nya unattractive kesempatannya for finding a good job are slim! (gimana kalau punya face gak attractive and have no money buat oplas??)
Satu lagi nih, di Seoul sendiri terdapat sebuah bagian jalan yang terkenal dengan nicknamed 'Plastic Surgery Street' karena disini terdapat lebih dari 400 surgery clinics.
Berikut ini adalah kutipan dari sebuah situs majalah terkenal di US Time :
South Korea is even more competitive than it is conservative. And with so many young people having themselves remade, parents are afraid their children will fall behind, not just academically but aesthetically. "Parents make their kids get plastic surgery," says Dr. Shim Hyung Bo, a plastic surgeon practicing in Seoul, "just like they make them study. They realize looks are important for success." Which means that in today's Korea, getting your eyes done can be easier than getting the keys to dad's car.
Only in Korea?? Rasanya enggak, check this out:
Around Asia, women—and increasingly, men—are nipping and tucking, sucking and suturing, injecting and implanting, all in the quest for better looks. In the past, Asia had lagged behind the West in catching the plastic surgery wave, held back by cultural hang-ups, arrested medical skills and a poorer consumer base. But cosmetic surgery is now booming throughout Asia like never before. In Taiwan, a million procedures were performed last year, double the number from five years ago. In Korea, surgeons estimate that at least one in 10 adults have received some form of surgical upgrade and even tots have their eyelids done. The government of Thailand has taken to hawking plastic surgery tours. In Japan, noninvasive procedures dubbed "petite surgery" have set off such a rage that top clinics are raking in $100 million a year.
tunggu bentar........ Indonesia juga termasuk lho!
Elsewhere in Asia, this explosion of personal re-engineering is harder to document, because for every skilled and legitimate surgeon there seethes a swarm of shady pretenders. Indonesia, for instance, boasts only 43 licensed plastic surgeons for a population of about 230 million; yet an estimated 400 illicit procedures are performed each week in the capital alone. In Shenzhen, the Chinese boomtown, thousands of unlicensed "beauty-science centers" lure hordes of upwardly mobile patients, looking to buy a new pair of eyes or a new nose as the perfect accessory to their new cars and new clothes.
Looks like these days... oplas memang jadi trend ;)