"There will be bruises and swelling from the surgery but since we'll all be wearing masks I think that should help," she added. That attitude is fuelling demand for such operations in South Korea, which had already experienced a pickup in cosmetic surgery in 2020. The country has been a world capital of cosmetic surgery even during non-pandemic times. I've sensed that customers were expressing their pent-up emotions (from the coronavirus) by getting cosmetic procedures," Shin said. Gangnam Unni data showed its users surged 63% from a year earlier to about 2.6 million last year.

Source: bd News24 January 03, 2021 22:52 UTC