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Sunday, October 11, 2015

Behind the "fever" aesthetic tour of Chinese tourists
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In recent years, the number of Chinese tourists to South Korea for plastic surgery and facelifts increasing. However, thousands of them realized that they were wrong.

Association of Reconstructive and Aesthetic China, operates under the management of the Department of State Health China, recently released statistics show that in 2014, there were 56 thousand Chinese people traveling to South Korea for cosmetic surgery purposes. But Xinhua news agency said the number of Chinese tourists to Korea soared in the summer time, when students are absent. Among them 3/4 are women and girls. According to the Korea National Tax Bureau, the number of Chinese tourists to South Korea for cosmetic surgery increased by more than 20 times in the last 4 years.


Banner of a cosmetic surgery center in Seoul, Korea.

A survey, conducted by Xinhua, among Chinese college students in the cities of Beijing, Tianjin, and Nanjing shows that 16% of students intend to receive cosmetic surgery . Meanwhile, in a survey by the China Central Television (CCTV), with 60% of respondents agree that the rise in cosmetic surgery has contributed to the growing number of people just based on superficial considerations about looks. 38% of respondents surveyed by CCTV feel that cosmetic surgery can increase the performance and advantages of one's society, while 22% agree surgery with the hope of finding a spouse or partner.

These job plastic surgery popular Chinese customers pursue include making double eyelids, cut the corner of the eyes to make them look bigger, raise the nose, trim levels, and enlarged breasts. However, there are so many Chinese people fell into "money lost, disabilities carry" when deciding to Korea edit beauty. At a conference organized by the Consumers Association of China at 3.2015 last month, there have been reports of an increase from 10 to 15% per year of complaints from Chinese tourists to South Korea to surgery.

Due to high intermediate costs paid to dealers specializing in travel organization surgery, Chinese patients in Korea have to pay 2-3 times more than Koreans. However, despite the higher costs, but many hospitals and surgeons in Korea not enough quality to perform some surgeries, leading to increased failure rates.

On 27.1, CCTV reported that a 50-year-old woman China cardiac arrest and brain death while receiving a cosmetic surgery operation in Korea. According to Hong Kong magazine Phoenix, a female office worker in Shanghai China who has ruined his career after making a face-lift shift in Seoul last year by the skin stretching her mouth failed to do was cat. She has returned to Seoul four times and spent 400 thousand yuan of her savings in the hope of repairing his face, but failed. In desperation, the woman has refused to meet with friends and their loved ones, and even reject both his parents met.

Mr. Zhang Bin, president of the Association Reconstructive and Aesthetic China said the surgery done improperly, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to overcome consequences ....
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