[Korea Encounters] Looking down high noses at quack plastic surgeons in 1971
Posted : 2021-01-26 17:55
Updated : 2021-01-26 18:51
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 Yonsei Medical Center, Korea s first plastic surgery department was established at Severance Hospital in 1961.