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They Mutilate Kids in Korea, Gangnam Style!
While my fellow Americans cut off their kids’ penises or breasts on a whim and make with the hormone-blockers, here in Korea they have found another reason to mutilate their kids — their concept of beauty. I’m still not 100% sure what that means, even after all this time, but it definitely means the looks given to you by Mom and Dad’s genetics weren’t enough.
The “double eyelid” surgery is the one you hear most about. Gotta get that “Western/caucasian” looking eyelid. (Don’t know how they do it.) Anecdotally, the cartoon characters drawn by kids here, as well as those used in advertising and YES, even military recruiting, all have ping-pong-ball round eyes.
I live near Little Asia in Mesa. This commercial community has been flourishing, revitalizing a portion of a run-down part of town. The latest good sign is the opening of an 
You can see the lettering on the entry all the way across the parking lot. In huge block letters, this company set out its policy, before any state or local official edict:
Thirty-five years ago, on September 1, 1983, Russian jet fighters shot down a Boeing 747 operated by Korean Airlines. KAL flight 007, even the flight number invites conspiracy theories! The facts are that the plane went down in the Sea of Japan with all 269 passengers and crew lost, the aircraft fatally damaged by two short-range air-to-air missiles. This was a dreadful mishap at the height of the Cold War, the civilian aircraft being mistaken for the smaller 
RAF operated RC-135; Russians were tracking USAF RC-135s in the area.
