The latest reporting on the prevalence of plastic surgery in South Korea came from Reddit, mocking uncanny resemblance of the participants of the Daegu branch of annual beauty pageant Miss Korea, culminating in the below viral image from Imgur:

Known globally for its cosmetic surgery craze, South Korea indeed remains unopposed in the global plastic surgery table, giving the impression that the secret of South Korean beauty lies as much in cosmetic surgery as it does in national genes.

Miss Korea 2012 was dubbed ‘Miss Plastic 2012‘ by netizens for her open use of plastic surgery. Little less known is the growing willingness with which South Korean men go under the knife.

Although many netizens jumped to the cliched conclusion of so-called ‘medically-induced postnatal twinning syndrome’, when the pre-makeup photos (or, as some netizens suggest, pre-photoshop photos) of the participants emerged on Ilbe, the truth was a bit more disappointing.

From Ilbe:

Looking at the True Faces of Miss Korea

I am at loss for words… Ju-jul-muk?

[ju-jul-muk: Meaning ‘I will bow in gratitude for the sexual intercourse for which I am about to have with this girl’]

Comments from Ilbe:

솔로계급4스타:

Is this Transforma Korea?

재생하는방법좀:

Motherfucker

나야나:

Have you no shame, number 9?

대마운:

Number 1 not bad

대마운:

I’m seriously going to murder number 17…

유리유두하지마루:

Thinking there’d be at least one pretty woman, but now it’s time wasted. FUCK

xos0.514:

Photoshop, fuck… It made them look alike… this is not the plastic surgeon’s work, it’s’shopped.

독한새끼:

What kind confidence does the bitch like number 13 have to crawl out and compete?

일베보지단속반:

Number 5, 7, and 9, come and greet your customers you sluts.. Number 14, in you go. If they ask for someone else you are dead.

redbean:

Real pretty ones are not competing but the fugly ones with plastic surgery

워숙취:

Wow, have they no fucking consciences?

홍다네:

No doubt Chosen [Korea] is backward-nida wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww [nida: a Korean equivalent of ‘desu’ which is a copula, often used for mocking effect by Japanese netizens]



마초일베하냐?:

Reminded of the overseas prostitutes?

갑이제:

They all look very unique, so proud

우흥바위:

I just watched the Victoria’s Secret lingerie show, so these girls look all very much like squid [Squid: A term describing the flat Mongoloid facial features]



기니디리미비:

5, 1 not bad. But their noses all the same ke ke ke ke ke ke

음료수매니아:

I heard this is all the rage abroad as well, fuck this is embarrassing you morons

드림하이2:

Fuck, everyone with a chalk up their nose [bun-pil: a stick of chalk, referring to their very un-Korean straight, aquiline nose characteristic of white Caucasian] ke ke ke ke ke ke, I am going to puke ke ke ke ke ke ke



마피:

Is the point of Miss Korea finding average looker among the fugly ones?

얼로:

Other than 5, 6, 12 I can’t believe they even considered entering given their fugly faces

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