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90% of South Korean women have plastic surgery, but less than 5% of South Korean men do the same. Due to this, South Korean women now outclass South Korean men in attractiveness. The solution is simple; ban cosmetic surgery. Then there will be more average South Korean women to settle down with the average South Korean men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmetic_surgery_in_South_Kore...

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The Wikipedia page appears to have been edited 1 day ago to say that 91% of women age 30-39 have had plastic surgery, though the cited source says 31%.

The source itself: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111220/south-korea-plas...

Not to mention that most "plastic" surgery in South Korea is the double eyelid surgery [1][2]

[1] https://med.stanford.edu/cosmeticsurgery/aestheticservices/f...

[2] https://uweb.berkeley.edu/2022/01/23/true-beauty-the-economi...

That remains a massive discrepancy.

This seems to define attraction between two people as some sort of "match how hot out of 10" game. I'd suggest that that's a overly simplistic understanding of how attraction and dating works.

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