[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.