Riding the Wave: How the Media Shapes South Korean Concepts of Beauty
Description:
This thesis features a qualitative analysis of eight Korean media products — both fiction and nonfiction. For many years, South Korea (hereafter also called Korea) has been called the "world's plastic surgery capital" by many publications, such as Business Insider and The New Yorker. Although Business Insider considers the United States the "vainest country in the world," the numbers of cosmetic surgeries, percentage wise, per person in Korea still outnumber those in the United States, with 20 …
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Date:
May 2018
Creator:
Streng, Catherine Ann
Partner:
UNT Libraries