According to a survey conducted in South Korea in 2020, over 93 percent of respondents stated that their plastic surgery had been for cosmetic purposes. While the exact figures fluctuated, cosmetic procedures vastly outnumbered medical procedures every surveyed year.
Distribution of purpose of getting plastic surgery in South Korea from 2017 to 2020
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