SEOUL: Rounder eyes, narrower faces, bigger breasts: a South Korean girl band is celebrating the country’s obsession with surgically enhanced beauty by going under the knife to praise the virtues of Becoming Pretty. All four members of obscure K-pop outfit SixBomb went through extensive plastic surgery, from nose jobs to breast implants, before releasing their new single on Thursday. “Everyone follows me, they know I’m pretty,” they sing in Becoming Pretty – an electronic dance number with a hook reminiscent of South Korean singer Psy’s 2012 global phenomenon Gangnam Style. Despite a population of only 50 million, it is the world’s third-biggest plastic surgery market, with thousands of clinics performing an estimated 1.2 million procedures a year. Looks often play a key role in South Korean women’s “social survival” and job prospects, Jung said.

Source: The Star March 18, 2017 06:00 UTC