According to a 2015 survey by Gallup Korea, 14% of South Korean women have undergone some form of plastic surgery — although that statistic jumps to 30% for women in their 20s in particular.

Because South Korea has the most plastic surgeries per capita on earth, with over 980,000 recorded operations in 2014. That's 20 procedures per 1,000 people, putting it ahead of the US's 13 ...

Nowhere is the rate of plastic surgery higher than in South Korea. It's estimated that one in five Korean women under 50 go under the scalpel, but the Korean beauty ideal is not unique to Korea.

South Korea is the plastic surgery capital of the world. It's been reported that one in three South Korean women between the ages of 19 and 29 have gone under the knife.

An estimated one in five South Korean women has had some sort of work done. June 20, 2014— -- America is a country obsessed with plastic surgery. Countless tabloids and gossip sites ...

Behind the plastic surgery boom in South Korea 05:13. Globally, surgeons performed more than 20 million cosmetic procedures last year. South Korea, a country of about 50 million people, accounted ...

South Korea is the plastic surgery capital of the world — to such an extent that parents will often pay for their children to have double eyelid surgery before they start college. A plastic ...

South Korea’s Supreme Court approved plastic surgery for aesthetic purposes as a medical practice in 1974, and the following year surgeons were required to pass professional exams.

The boom in South Korea's plastic surgery faces a backlash as some whose hopes of enhacing their features end in misery. Yiming Woo reports.

Gwynn Guilford reports over at Quartz that the latest trend to hit South Korea is surgery for a smile:. Cosmetic tweaks like Botox have long minimized furrowed brows and frown lines. But a new ...