Global Nanpa

For this posting I used several internet sources and borrowed certain passages of other articles.

Plastic surgery is booming throughout Asia and became a huge market. In Korea, surgeons estimate that 10% of all adults have had some sort of surgical „upgrade“.

In Thailand a real plastic surgery tourism got established and in Japan the top clinics make revenues of over $100 million each year with these operations.

China has a lot of unlicensed beauty-science centers, especially in Shenzen the danger is big when discount prices are offered. A large amount of lawsuits also got filed in Shenzen against those surgeons.

Asians are asking their surgeons for wider eyes, longer noses and bigger breasts, features not typical of the race. The most popular procedure in Asia is a form of blepharoplasty, in which a crease is created above the eye by scalpel or by needle and thread.

Westerners use botox to diminish wrinkles, while in Korea, Japan and Taiwan, botox is injected into wide cheeks so the muscle will atrophy and the cheeks will shrink.In China, Korea and Indonesia, where virginity is highly prized, young women go in for hymen reconstruction in time for their wedding night.

In Thailand, with its sizable population of ladyboys a big industry has developed to provide male-to-female sex-change operations.

For Chinese people, surgically enhanced beauty is both a way to display wealth and a tool with which to attain it.

In Thailand, even the government has recognized the money-making potential of plastic surgery. The Tourism Authority of Thailand helps promote institutions like the Bumrungrad Hospital to foreigners, who make up one-third of its patients. The 12-story, $90 million hospital is like a five-star, round-the-clock plastic surgery factory. There’s a Starbucks in the lobby, high-speed Internet connection for the patients and room service.

In the mid-’70s, Thailand had only 10 plastic surgeons, so locals tended to go abroad to Japan or Singapore for cosmetic help. Today, it is the reverse, and Thailand has become a surgical hub. Travel agencies offering plastic surgery tours have packages including airfare, hotel, sightseeing and maybe a boob or nose job. The price level too is what attracts foreign patients, mainly from Japan and China.

Kawinna Suwanpradeep, a former soap opera star in Thailand wasn’t scared of plastic surgery. When Yanhee Hospital, a Bangkok plastic surgery center, offered her free liposuction in return for a public endorsement, she did not hesitate.

She was told she would be able to go home the same day as the operation. After the bandages were removed, she noticed wavy patches and scars. The doctor told her they would disappear in a few months, but when they still hadn’t healed a year later Suwanpradeep went to court. The hospital denies responsibility. Disgusted with her courthouse experience, Suwanpradeep started to study law. Now she is a poster girl for a plastic surgery disaster.

Thailand :

1. Bumrungrad

2. Preecha Aesthetic Institute (PAI)

3. NEO plastic surgery center

4. The Samui Clinic

5. Phuket Plastic Surgery

Japan :

1. Plaza Plastic Surgery

China :

1. Shanghai ConBio plastic and laser surgery hospital

2. Shenzen Fuhua Hospital

Korea :

1. IAAN cosmetic plastic surgery clinic

2. Dream plastic surgery clinic

Philippines :

1. Cosmetic plastic surgery Philippines

2. Plastic surgery Manila