Ah, the quest for looking exactly the same. . .

In South Korea, Plastic Surgery Comes Out of the Closet

Jean Chung for the International Herald Tribune

Dr. Park Sang-hoon, head of a top-ranked clinic in southern Seoul, consulted with Chang Hae-jin after her double-jaw surgery, a procedure that involves cutting and rearranging the upper and lower jaws.

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Published: November 3, 2011

SEOUL — With a blue pen, Dr. Seo Young-tae drew arches on Chang Hyang-sook’s eyelids, marking where to cut and stitch to create a new fold to make her eyes look larger and rounder. It is an operation so common here that most women on Seoul streets seem to have a double fold, though only one of every five Koreans is born with one.

Jean Chung for the International Herald Tribune

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Villager recounts tale of saving infant’s life while on duty in S. Korea, a baby that later became his daughter

Herb BoyceGeorge Horsford, Daily Sun

Herb Boyce

Herb Boyce, of The Villages, displays his book, ‘Land of The Morning Calm’. Boyce wrote the book under the pen name Harry Bryce.

Posted: Monday, October 31, 2011 8:00 am

By Livi Stanford, Daily Sun

THE VILLAGES — Something had moved in the tall grass alerting 1st Lt. Col. Herb Boyce immediately.

The resident of The Villages was on a search and destroy mission with the Korean Army in a small village about 40 miles outside of Chun Chon, South Korea, in 
October 1968.

The North Korean infiltrators, Boyce explained, pointing to the loss of life including livestock, had destroyed everything in the village.

Little did Boyce know that what he would he would find in the grass would change his life forever. Continue reading