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Korea Embracing Plastic Surgery Norms Through ‘Medical Tourism’ Posted by Tony Kitchen on May 21, 2015
South Korea has been pushing efforts both privately and through government agencies to increase tourism to the ROK in the non-traditional form: medical tourism. In 2014, about 56,000 Chinese alone visited South Korea for plastic surgery, according to China’s Ministry of Health, up from 4,700 in 2009. The social norm in Korea (as well-documented as ever…