K-pop and plastic surgery. Well-worn territory, right? It's like
bees and honey - whenever you see one, you know the other is close by. I
don't really care though. How is getting injections or plastic in your
lips/nose/cheeks/ass/boobs really any different to getting those hoop
things in your ears that fuck up your earlobes for the rest of your
life, or a tattoo that says "fuck" on your forehead, or a piercing
through your cock that also extends through your ballsack, or any number
of other things people do to make themselves more aesthetically
appealing to themselves or whoever? I wouldn't do that shit personally
but some people obviously would for whatever reason and good luck to
them. Obviously 90% of k-pop stars are plastic-surgeried to fuck and
back and it gets pretty obvious when the studio makeup isn't on them but
so what. Michael Jackson looked ridiculous in the 90s too but he at
least probably thought he looked okay and I sure didn't cry myself to
sleep at night over it (maybe a few Neverland sleepover guests did
though). My point being - less people claiming to be against
superficiality while simultaneously getting very upset about other
people's superficial appearances, and the world would be a better place,
right?
So
it's less in the spirit of voyeurism or criticism and more in the
spirit of community education that I now present to you the following
story, which may be old news to some but I think it's a cautionary tale
that should be heeded. While there is quite a bit of writing out there
about this specific incident, which is fairly old, there isn't much
within western k-pop blogging sites so I felt that it was a tale that needs to be told to a k-pop specific audience. Warning: this gets scary.
