[Korea Encounters] Looking down high noses at `quack plastic surgeons` in 1971
(WorldNews South Korea)

Before-and-after pictures of plastic surgery, published in The Korea Times June 18, 1964. / Korea Times Archive By Matt VanVolkenburg `At one section of Yonsei Medical Center, strange things are happening. A harelipped boy steps out with a normal mouth. A flat-nosed girl consults a doctor; next day, out comes gingerly a piquant face with that `forward-look` nose. These miraculous changes are the results of modern plastic surgery, which in Korea found a home at the plastic surgery section of the hospital a year ago.` So began a Korea Times article on June 18, 1964, about Lew Jae-duk, an early Korean pioneer of plastic surgery who was trained in the U.S. Prior to the department opening at...