China Surpasses South Korea in Plastic Surgery Ranks

Aug 12, 2010 eChinacities.com

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Results of a recent global survey show that as of 2009, China has overtaken South Korea in terms of the number of people receiving plastic surgery. The new ranking puts them above South Korea which fell to seventh.

WebMD, a well-known American health and nursing care information website, reported on August 9th that the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery had announced the results of a 2009 global survey about the application of plastic surgery in different countries. Results revealed that in 2009, the three countries with the most practice of plastic surgery were the US, Brazil and China. That year, 17.5% and 14.3% of the world's plastic surgeries occurred in America and Brazil; those in China take up 12.7% of the world's total.

The other countries that ranked in the 4th to 10th in the world for most practice of plastic surgeries are India, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Turkey, and Spain, respectively. South Korea, a country that had normally ranked higher, and is well known for their obsession with aesthetic plastic surgeries, is in fact in the seventh place this time around, completely overtaken by China.

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