Pyongyang waitresses sliced to perfection

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MG23Dg01.html


A mixed group of Chinese and foreigners recently dined at a North Korean restaurant in the Chinese capital. Surveying the female waitresses, one Chinese guest remarked: "Wow - how beautiful! They all look like models!"

It is a common compliment for female workers at North Korean restaurants, whether in Beijing, Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City or Russia's Vladivostok. The beauties are partly how these restaurants, which dotted around Asia are used as outposts to earn foreign currency for the Pyongyang leadership, attract customers.

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The Daily NK, a North Korea-specific Internet newspaper, reported in May that although facelifts are illegal, state surgeons are increasingly performing cosmetic surgeries in secret in return for bribes. "Upper eyelid surgeries and cosmetic tattoos on eyebrows, lips and the corners of eyes are widespread in North Korea," a source from Pyongyang was quoted as saying.

It reported in the same month that since the start of the 2000s, young women working in North Korean restaurants both in Pyongyang and abroad were required to have the eyelid surgery.

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the world war against women continues

also there is this: "Many young females from the elite opt to work at these culinary outposts. Though serving as waitresses, each has a college degree and they are all from Pyongyang. Each must also be talented in singing and dancing. Required by instruction from Kim or not, eyelid surgery has apparently been popular with rich North Korean girls for almost a decade."

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[FreakinDJ]

1. Eye lid surgery was popular with South Korean girls 3 decades ago

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4. Found this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4229995.stm


The price of beauty in South Korea

By Charles Scanlon
BBC News, South Korea

The South Korean capital, Seoul, has a reputation as the place to go for a nip or a tuck. But despite being an unregulated industry, thousands seem willing to risk injury in pursuit of a perfect body.


The streets of Seoul are thick with impeccably groomed young women in miniskirts, seemingly immune to the sub zero temperatures of the Korean winter.

Women of marriageable age are under intense pressure to look their best at all times and one of the consequences has been an explosion in plastic surgery.

A woman's magazine recently advised its readers to spend 30% of their incomes on looking good.

The reason, you will end up with a better and richer husband and that has to be a sensible investment.

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2. Interesting.

[thereismore]

3. Not quite as ugly as outright prostitution, and I think I understand those women. nt