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Attitudes Towards Cosmetic Surgery:

A Cross-Cultural Analysis of South Korean and United States Female College Students

Christine Cha

University of California, Santa Barbara

Department of Communication

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Despite the increasing prevalence of media attention and national cases of cosmetic surgery, little

scientific research has focused on a cross-cultural examination of attitudes towards cosmetic

surgery in the United States versus South Korea. My cross-cultural analysis research specifically

aims to assess the difference in attitude and perception towards plastic surgery in the United

States and South Korea, and determine whether prevailing cultural perceptions toward plastic

surgery are founded on inherent collectivistic versus individualistic attitudes. Through a cross-

cultural analysis of female South Korean and American college undergraduates, the present

research will demonstrate how attitudes towards cosmetic surgery differs in the two countries,

and whether beliefs and attitudes are cultivated and emphasized through mainstream television.

These findings will have important implications on how to approach future solutions to

effectively communicate risks associated with cosmetic surgery.

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Introduction

As an relatively unregulated industry, plastic surgery does not record or assimilate

procedure statistics properly, including situations in which clinics “carry out surgery without the

recommended qualifications and lack of formal training” which can result in a client’s permanent

body disfigurement (Suissa, 2008, p. 622). As a result, the analysis of how United States and

South Korea (henceforth simply regarded as ‘Korea’ throughout the paper) socializes and

cultivates women’s attitudes and beliefs towards cosmetic surgery is important to analyze to

address future problems that may arise due to the escalating popularity of the procedure.

According to the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery (AACS), cosmetic surgery is the

“unique discipline of medicine focused on enhancing appearance through surgical techniques,

while plastic surgery is defined as a surgical specialty dedicated to the reconstruction of facial

and body defects.” However, like most previous research examining cosmetic surgery, I have

used the terms plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery interchangeably as the contemporary

surgical procedure for aesthetic enhancements.

Ideal Beauty Standards and the Rise of Cosmetic Surgery

Past association of cosmetic surgery as a reconstructive post-war operation following an

accident or disfigurement in combat is defunct as the procedure is now viewed as a common

pursuit to attain ideal beauty standards (Gimlin, 2007). With the modernized “prevailing view

that [cosmetic surgery] no longer epitomizes vanity but personal repair,” cultural expectations

and messages cultivate self-evaluations and socialized perceptions of idealized attractiveness,

which may impel the standardization and personal desire to seek surgical aesthetic enhancement

(King & King, 2005, p. 141). Previous studies found common predictor variables of cosmetic

surgery acceptance, motivation and desire to undergo the procedure included “different

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interpersonal factors such as body image dissatisfaction, and internalization of sociocultural

messages from media” (Park, Calogero, Young, & Diraddo, 2010, p. 491). Although cultural

values and beliefs undoubtedly reinforce beauty ideals, a cross-cultural analysis of attitudes

towards cosmetic surgery is important to review because cultural norms shape different

trajectories and perceptions regarding the practice. In particular, the majority of existing research

observing popular attitudes towards cosmetic surgery focuses on women in the United States and

South Korea. According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, in 2009, South

Korea ranked as number one as the country with citizens who have undergone cosmetic

procedures on a per capita basis, while the same survey recorded United States as the country

with the highest population of total cosmetic surgeries performed (Davies & Han, 2011).

The most common and popular procedures in the United States were body surgeries,

while the most frequent procedure in South Korea were facial surgeries. This phenomenon may

be explained by the different cultural emphasis of ideal beauty and female attractiveness. For

example, Frith, Shaw, and Cheng’s study (2005) found that Koreans magazines had a greater

number of ads showing only the model’s face, while US magazines had higher levels of nudity

and a greater emphasis on body and sexuality (Jung & Lee, 2009). Although various factors such

as lowered procedure costs and improved medical practices contribute to the increasing

popularity of cosmetic surgery, it is important to research the different ideal beauty standards in

the United States versus Korea in order to recognize social dependent and predictor variables of

“this hybrid practice of altering biologically inherited bodies through surgery [that] thrives as a

widely commonplace practice in contemporary medicine” (Suissa, 2008, p. 622).

Plastic Surgery Phenomenon in South Korea

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Previous research examining the plastic surgery phenomenon in South Korea often

framed cosmetic surgery as the western cultural influence of beauty ideals or as a feminist issue

of women’s social subjection under the country’s traditional patriarchal system. Plastic surgery is

inarguably extremely prevalent in South Korea among males and females, but the narrow focus

of altering appearances fail to understand the following:

“The influence in Korea of national identity discourses and traditional Korean beliefs and practices, and meanings and practices of aesthetic surgery represent a process of negotiation between multiple discourses concerning national identity, globalized and regionalized standards of beauty, traditional beliefs and practices, as well as the symbolic practices of coming of age, caring for the self, marking social status and seeking success” (Holliday & Hwang, 2012, p. 72).

Korean surgical pursuits do reflect a desire for Caucasian facials such as a thinly sculpted chin, a

prominent nose, and double eyelids (Davies & Han, 2011). However, although these idealized

features reflect the influence of Western beauty standards, plastic surgery phenomenon in South

Korea cannot be simplified as a globalization effect. While Western features are desired by

Korean female prospective customers, “unsuccessful surgeries are often defined as producing an

unnaturally ‘Western’ appearance,’” emphasizing the desire to attain a ‘natural’ Korean look,

such as thin rather than thick double eyelids (Bissel & Chung, 2009, p. 235).

The increasing societal pressure to obtain the “right face” for employment and economic

success can also explain the soaring rates of cosmetic surgery in South Korea. Through the social

norms conveyed through South Korean media culture and the pressure where attractiveness is

perceived as a determining factor in economic success and gaining employment in an extremely

competitive job market. Almost all job applications require a photo attachment, and these

societal pressures to conform to a common ideal standard of beauty normalizes cosmetic surgery

as an “investment to enhance one’s social and economic status” in a country with a high

population but a limited job market to support employment (Suissa, 2008, p. 622). With the high

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level of social pressure to adhere to Western-influenced beauty ideals, South Korea epitomizes a

collectivistic culture that advocates conformity, not individuality (Kim, 2003).

U.S Women’s Perceived Attitudes Towards Cosmetic Surgery

Unlike South Korea’s collectivistic attitude and beliefs toward cosmetic surgery, the

United States’ culture of self-improvement and individualist ideals promotes the rise of plastic

surgery. In 2007, Gimlin analyzed post-surgery individual narratives of women in Great Britain

and the United State, and her study found that the U.S respondents frequently emphasized

“attitudes towards cosmetic surgery that emphasized empowerment—willingness to control their

own body to enhance beauty—and self-fulfillment ideals” (p. 279). Moreover, another survey

researching American women’s attitudes of cosmetic surgery acceptance, motivation and

decision to undergo aesthetic surgery found that U.S respondents consistently employed a similar

cultural repertoire that stressed individual choice and responsibility in participants’ decision-

making narratives (Leve, Rubin, & Pusic, 2012). In-depth interviews and narratives found U.S

women reflected a newfound attitude of ‘neoliberal ethos,’ an ideology that situates prospective

cosmetic surgery patients as free agents engaging in “consumer activity and individual risk-

benefit calculations of aesthetic surgery (Leve, Rubin, & Pusic, 2012, p. 133).

Despite U.S. women’s perceived attitudes towards cosmetic surgery, the underlying

cultural and social motivations and influence cannot be overlooked. In King & King’s research

(2005) of middle-aged women’s attitudes towards cosmetic surgery found favorable attitudes

towards the procedure, which may reflect the American ideals of youth as a key determinant of

female attractiveness. As a result, further examinations of cultural norms and beauty ideals in the

Western, individualist context is important to examine to demonstrate the interconnectedness of

social and personal motivations to predict attitudes towards cosmetic surgery in U.S women.

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Media Portrayals of Cosmetic Surgery

“Mass media can reflect basic beliefs, attitudes, and values toward female beauty and can

even affect changes in cultures when others are exposed to images of ideal beauty and

attractiveness” (Bissel & Chung, 2009, p. 230). For example, in Harrison’s study (2003), college

students revealed television viewing was associated with views of the ideal female beauty and

approval of women’s use of surgical procedures to alter their bodies. For my research, I included

examining how cosmetic surgery is portrayed and normalized via television broadcasting in

Korea and the United States to examine whether television portrayals have strong implications

towards predicting attitudes, particularly the decision-making process, for individuals who

decide to undergo this procedure and evaluations of others who have undergone cosmetic

surgery.

U.S. Television Messages of Cosmetic Surgery

U.S. Cosmetic-surgery themed television programs have escalated in frequency and

popularity since the first reality program, ABC Extreme Makeover, aired in 2002. Remaining as

one of the strongest studies analyzing U.S plastic surgery programs, Lee’s 2009 study examined

a two-week recording of three plastic surgery programs (Extreme Makeover, Dr. 90210, and

Plastic Surgery Before and After). The research found a singular uniting theme throughout the

three programs—the notion that the ideal female body was a criterion for a woman’s economic

and romantic success. Another similarity was these programs consistently “characterized the

world of plastic surgery as a fountain of youth, an [alternate reality] that nurtures young,

energetic, and good-looking people” (Lee, 2009, p. 512). Such glamorization found these U.S.

plastic surgery television programs also portrayed a sanitized—almost invisible—atmosphere of

the possible risks or complications of these operations. Most importantly, the individualistic

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message on these programs that “ugliness becomes our own choice and responsibility”

reinforced the cultural pressure for women to constantly strive to surgically ‘enhance’

themselves to fit unrealistic beauty ideals (Leve, Rubin, & Pusic, 2012, p. 130).

Media Portrayals of Cosmetic Surgery in South Korea

Television portrayals of cosmetic surgery in South Korea enforce a more extreme

message against a backdrop of a “Korean consumer culture that worships beautiful bodies”

(Park, 2007, p. 52). In particular, the celebrity culture of Korean entertainment media has helped

facilitate an increasing normalized perception of cosmetic surgery. For example, Korean popular

stars have become so popular as cultural icons that prospective customers request imitation of

facial features (Shoo, 2006). The role of celebrities in publicizing surgical procedures is

extremely important as celebrities themselves admit through various popular television programs

and interviews their own surgical modifications. Additionally, the digitally-active South Korean

population—also referred to as ‘netizens’—promote celebrity’s ‘enhancements’ through online

communities and social networking sites, as well as portraying a slew of ‘surgical success

stories’ (Davies & Han, 2011). As a result of televised marketing and pervasive exposure of ideal

female attractiveness, the mass media promotes cosmetic surgery as a means to achieve self-

improvement and attain a higher social and economic status. Despite the difference in cultural

messages reflected in television portrayals of cosmetic surgery in the United States versus South

Korea, “the media, in combination with other outside influences, help shape the world in which

these women and men feel they have to be attractive in order to be popular or successful” (Bissel

& Chung, 2009, p. 237). Because the socialization process of television exposure may increase

the acceptability and desirability of cosmetic surgery, my research hopes to find how televised

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representation of plastic surgery is associated with evaluations of cosmetic surgery acceptance,

and motivation and decision to undergo cosmetic surgery themselves as an outcome variable.

Method

Design and Participants

Through a cross-cultural analysis of female South Korean and American college

undergraduates, my research design is to examine 50 non-randomly selected Caucasian women

attending the University of California, Santa Barbara. Volunteers for the study will indicate their

ethnicity during a pre-study questionnaire for those interested in being included for my research.

Also, 50 non-randomly selected South Korean women attending a university in Seoul will

receive the same questionnaire that was distributed to their American counterparts but the

questionnaire will be written in Korean and distributed by an aide. The following research

questions and hypotheses indicate the questions my research examines:

RQ1: Are collectivistic beliefs reflected in South Korean college women’s perception

towards cosmetic surgery? Individualistic beliefs reflected in U.S. college women’s

perception towards cosmetic surgery?

RQ2: How is cosmetic surgery portrayed and reflected in television?

H1: South Korean women are more likely to tell others if they have undergone the

cosmetic procedure than their U.S. female counterparts.

H2: South Korean college students are more likely to emphasize stronger attitudes

towards importance of beauty and positive evaluations of cosmetic surgery than their US

female student counterparts.

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To indicate whether prevailing social perception towards plastic surgery is founded on a

cultural concept (collectivism versus individualism), my research will demonstrate attitudes and

beliefs towards cosmetic surgery within female college students in the US versus Korea, and

whether social attitudes are cultivated and emphasized through mainstream television.

Procedure

To assess attitudes towards cosmetic surgery, my measures of cosmetic surgery

acceptance, motivation, and desire to undergo the procedure will be based on answers from a 50-

60 questions survey that asks for different demographic data such as ideal weight versus current

weight and height. Both the Korean and American subject pool will receive the questionnaire

that will include Likert-scale items and questions related to standardized instruments such as

Appearance Schemas Inventory, Appearance evaluation, Body Area Satisfaction Scale, Body-

Image Ideal questionnaire, and Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Inventory. These questions will be

coded to research whether these variables are associated with cosmetic surgery motivation and

decision and undergo plastic surgery, as well as peer and self-evaluations of surgically enhanced

beauty.

However, because of acceptance of cosmetic surgery based on social and cultural values

and norms does not necessarily indicate one’s desire to undergo surgery directly, the Korean

subject pool will also evaluate before/after pictures of celebrities who have undergo aesthetic

surgery. To demonstrate whether media increases likelihood of surgery, the Korean subject pool

will rate acceptability and desire/motivation to undergo plastic surgery in the previous

questionnaire measures, and I will look at whether the positive or negative evaluations of the

before-after pictures also indicate socialized ideals of body image ideals based on cultural beauty

standards.

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Davies, G. & Han, G.S. (2011). Korean cosmetic surgery and digital publicity: Beauty by Korean design. Media International Australia, 146-156.

Gimlin, D. (2007). Accounting for cosmetic surgery in the USA and Great Britain: A cross-cultural analysis of women’s narratives. Sage Publications, 13, 41-60.

Holliday, R. & Hwang, J. E. (2012). Gender, globalization, and aesthetic surgery in South Korea. Body & Society 18(2), 58-81.

Jung, J. & Lee, Y. J. (2009). Cross-cultural examination of women’s fashion and beauty magazine advertisements in the United States and South Korea. Clothes & Textiles Research Journal 27(4), 274-286.

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