Kim Jong-Il Forces North Korean Waitresses to Get Cosmetic Eyelid Surgery
- Posted on July 26, 2011 at 1:24am by
Becket Adams
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North Korean waitresses perform for a dinner crowd at a North Korean restaurant in the Chinese border city of Dandong in northeast China, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006. China is the last ally of North Korea, its largest trading partner and aid donor. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
In a move that solidifies his position as the world’s heavyweight champion of all things slightly creepy, a recent report claims that all Kim Jong-il has demanded that all waitresses working in North Korean-owned restaurants outside of the country undergo double eyelid surgery.
From Daily NK (via Asia Times),
“’When I was in Pyongyang last year, I heard from someone related to the North that since the start of the 2000s all waitresses had double eyelid surgery on Kim Jong Il’s instructions,’ and added, ‘It seems that Kim Jong Il places great importance on the appearance of workers in restaurants earning foreign currency.’”
“Only the privileged classes are given the rare opportunities to go abroad, to work as diplomats, government-sponsored business representatives or study as college students,” reports Asia Times. However, “Many young females from the elite [most with college degrees] opt to work at these culinary outposts.” All are required to have the surgery performed.
AP
This decree is slightly incongruous with another made by the petite dictator when he officially banned cosmetic surgery. But then again, not a lot of things done by Dear Leader makes much sense. Anyway, whether he made it necessary or not, the demand for the procedure is rapidly growing.
The surgery, which involves reshaping skin around the eye to create an upper eyelid with a crease, giving East Asian eyes a more Western appearance, was originally only available to wealthier Korean citizens but the practice is being demanded by all social classes.
(File report from 2007)
“Ethnically, about 78% of Koreans are born without double eyelids. In South Korea, double-eyelid surgery began to pick up in the 1960s as movie stars spearheaded the trend. They wanted to have ‘bigger eyes’ like their Western counterparts. Now, the trend is rapidly penetrating into Hermit Kingdom despite its isolation.”
Example of single eyelid
There are differing views on how widespread the plastic surgery phenomenon is in other parts of North Korea outside the capital. A news report from 2006 claimed that in Chinese border town Shinuiju alone, more than 60% of the women had had work done. Most of the recipients of the surgery are young, college-aged women who must undergo the transformation before they go abroad.
Example of double eyelid
Furthermore, a disturbing market trend indicates that North Korean surgeons are increasingly offering cosmetic surgery in return for bribes and other illicit goods. It should also be pointed out that this is all being done at a time when severe food shortages and economic distress has resulted in the United Nations sending aid for over three million starving Koreans.
But more than having disordered priorities, the trend also carries with it health implications. “Open Radio for North Korea,” a Seoul-based media outlet that collects news from informants inside the North, said the plastic surgery boom is spreading to rural areas, with unlicensed surgery often having less than desirable results.
One can only hope that this trend, as well as the dictator who encourages it, will soon go away.
Editor’s note — Here is a guide to double eyelid surgery:
And here is a classic report from VBS.TV on a surreal visit to a North Korean restaurant:
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Posted on July 26, 2011 at 6:50amI’m sure its not the only thing he has them change.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 7:59amTime to castrate this pr!ck. Should have done it a long time ago.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 8:18amWhat kind of singers are they again?????
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 8:19amCrazy as a s%&thouse rat….
Report Post »mils
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 9:51ami do not understand why he is still alive…seriously…
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 9:58amHaha. You people think they are ordering the changes to their eye-lids because they want to be like you when actually they are changing them because they want to over-throw you.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 9:59amI like oriental eyes.
Report Post »bry
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 10:45amI think we have to say “Asian” now. At least that is what I was told the last time I said “Oriental”. *Flips through current issue of PC TODAY.* So much to learn, so little time *sigh*
Report Post »NES
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 12:46pmIf you know anything about Korea, this is not forced but more like the Nork version of winning the lottery. Very few women in South Korea haven’t had this done, and I’m guessing that these women in the North are excited to be given the opportunity. That doesn’t change that the amount and extent of plastic surgery in Korea is totally disgusting or that Kim Jong-ill (intentional spelling) is the most evil, brutal dictator in the world for whom execution would be too light of a punishment. It shouldn’t be strange that he both ban it in general and then mandate it for some. Like most socialists/communists/Marxists/leftists, he wants to control every aspect of the people’s lives. Sound familiar?
Report Post »chazman
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 3:58pm…oriental eyes are smilin’! Hey, isn’t that a song?
Report Post »BBomber66
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 6:26amI don’t get it. Why? Each race has it beauty. But then again, I think cosmetic surgery is a lot of vanity. I wash, I brush and I comb. Take me or leave me.
Report Post »Refender
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 7:34amOk,’ll leave you. Now, just where do you want me to leave you?
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 6:20amAs long as they’re in the body and fender shop, perhaps bigger..lol..oh never mind.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 7:13amheadlights?!?
Report Post »iluvglennbeck
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 5:17amWhat a great example of what Government “PROPAGANDA” looks like
Report Post »Wayne
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 10:31amThis is one ugly human being, he needs some surgery him self, cut every thing off just below the chin.
Report Post »martnee777
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 5:14amHorrorfying!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 5:10amThey keep saying that it makes the eyelid “bigger’ when the reverse is true. It makes it smaller by folding it more. It appears to be doubled when it is really just divided. When the eye is open the double fold makes the eyelid contract even more. Thus the eye looks bigger.
I know it’s a nitpicking point. But someone had to make it. I drew the short straw :-)
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 5:19amI wonder if he is going to make them say….“Me love you long time”?
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 5:25amNow, let’s not confuse our Asian stereotypes. ;-)
Report Post »ramburner
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 5:34amI think they are more beautiful the way they were born. No surgery for me! God did it right the first time! Kim Jong il lives up to his name, he is indeed ill.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 8:34amYou’re exactly right. My dad has a false eye (lost at 15 in a motorcycle accident, and he’s now 79). His eye that was lost, the socket has shrunk, and looks bigger, because it’s like opening it further, because the lid has shrunk. I‘m not against this surgery if it’s voluntary, but to make someone go through it? That’s just wrong. I have a Down Syndrome son, and there was a fad for a while to do surgery on the eyes of those with Down syndrome so they didn‘t look so Down’s. I think that’s wrong, too.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 4:53amGee!….It seems like it was just yesterday that old Kim was telling the North Koreans what to eat and what not to eat. And what kind of car to drive. And making them use mercury filled light bulbs. And dictating what kind of medical care they could get. And how many badies they could have. And controlling their media. And over taxing them. And what religion is acceptable and which one is not. And redistributing their wealth, deciding who is wealthy and who is not.
Gee!……This sounds familiar!…Hmmm…………………………….
Report Post »tinydd
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 7:00amMakes a guy wonder if North Korea would be a better place to live as at least the women are better looking than the welfare Moms we have here. Do they have Mcdonalds in NK?
Report Post »southerngal
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 3:42pmso why are we subsidzing this frivol? It s like someone here getting a fresh tat on the way to pick up their food stamps while carrying their groomed poodle with a left hand full of lottery tickets, and their right with a vodka collins, saying it sucks to be unemployed. …… i work how many hours to feed my family and you get a fresh-one for free? Where is John Gault?
Report Post »PoliticalSmackdown {Subscribe & Friend me on YouTube}
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 4:44amDear Asian ladies. what makes you lovely is who you are. never feel the need to change your looks to be accepted. you are lovely just as you are.. it is what is inside your heart that is important.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 5:19amThere is a thing called “bedroom eyes” that is very sexy. Asian women have it naturally.
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 4:44amThey do this alot in South Korea. The eyelids and nose are the first things to go. They narrow and elongate the nose bridge and get the eye surgery above. Also, they stay out of the sun as to look white. Also, height is important.
Caucasian features are prized in asian cultures. Whether they can do anything about it or not depends on the Country. They could just skip all of this and marry a white guy/girl, but they usually don’t have that option. Hapa asians are alot more popular in modeling, acting, and other public profile professions in asian nations.
It may seem weird, but if everyone you met had squinty eyes, black hair, and was 5 feet tall, you’d want to be white too.
Report Post »FlowerBell
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 4:11amI really do not understand why, if the world hates Caucasians so much, they work so hard to be like us, look like us and live like us. Is it just simple envy taken to some pathological level?
Report Post »And why am I supposed to feel guilty about it?
the hawk
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 4:28amYeah White guilt sponsered by U.N.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 5:12amThe only reason I was born a Caucasian, was because my father was a Caucasian, as was my mother. I really didn’t have any say as to what race I would be born into. That’s like any other person born on planet Earth.
My parents were never racists. They weren’t political at all. I really don’t believe that they ever voted. They were too busy living their lives. My father said that JFK would be assassinated, and he was right. I don’t know how he knew this. My father was a genius, but as I said before, was non-political.
My parents taught me to respect people for what they do. I lived through the Glenn Oaks debacle in Baltimore, MD. My parents taught me that it wrong to ban Black people from the Glenn Oaks amusement park.
Report Post »PJL
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 3:37amBut that’s part of their asian beauty, How stupid.
Report Post »looseyloo
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 3:28amThis is just the North Korean version of Obamacare.
In the NK version, they tell you what you need and then you just reach into your own pocket to pay for it. In the US version of Obamacare, the government reaches into your pocket first, but you will still have to go pay for it yourself if you want it done in this lifetime.
The big difference is the reaching into the pocket part, but that gap will soon be closed when the US economy is indistinguishable from North Korea’s.
Report Post »slvrserfr
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 3:12amWouldn’t this keep them from not only being able to sleep as well but also keep their eyes from being protected from dryness, dirt and debris? I mean, they’re called eyelids for a reason and what about eyelashes?
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 4:28amAre you for real? Their eyelids are not being removed, but reshaped to look more like a Caucasian woman’s eyelids. I assure you, they can still close their eyes after surgery.
Many Asians have a somewhat “flat” profile, as their faces go. There certainly isn’t anything “wrong” about this. It’s just an indication of what classification group that they are a member of.
There are variations in every classification. I am a Caucasian, but I can look like a Black person in the summer. I tan very easily, and have very full lips. My hair is very fine, wiry, and dry. If my hair gets wet, it’s an untameable mess of hairs going every which way, which only can be sorted out with a very wide tooth comb.
I’ve been mistaken for being a Black person, many times in my life. I take no offense at that. In the summer I look like a Black person, in the winter I look like a White person. It really hasn’t been a problem to me.
In fact, I consider myself to be extremely lucky. My skin is amazing. I’m almost sixty-three, but I barely have any wrinkles at all on my face. I don’t have any “crow’s feet” at my eyes. I’m often assumed to be ten years younger than I am. My skin just doesn’t wrinkle. It’s just weird.
Report Post »Rob_M
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 2:48amHow does this guy not get assassinated? I mean seriously, they have to realize he’s an idiot.
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 2:39amReminds me of Iran. Women there all about the nose jobs. They say its because when you have to cover up everything else, the face should be perfect. I think it is sad when you get to a point that you want to alter your body so drastically. Beauty, is of course, in the eyes of the beholder.
Report Post »LoriInNC
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 2:38amThis is very sad. These women are beautiful the way that they are .. the way that God intended them to be. They don’t need to resort to surgery to satisfy some commercial view of how they “think” they should look.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 2:23amWow! This is pretty silly! Asians being required to look more like Caucasians. Why?
Report Post »danieljersey
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 2:57pmSame reason why brunettes feel social pressure to dye their hair blond, why black women are told to “straighten” their hair with noxious chemicals, why women inject crap into their lips for a fuller look, and why people tan/bleach their skin.
Society has a way of telling people, especially women, that the way God made them is not good enough. Its sad really.
Report Post »KEL
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 1:48amSad, very sad!
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 2:23amNot only is it sad and despicable. It’s confusing. What need for waitresses does that Country, where the vast majority hunger for even a bowl of rice for their daily fare, have? Does that idiot really believe that disfiguring the women will magically transform to hunger and poverty of the people? Those kinds of delusions go beyond narcissistic pathology, and drops that freak squarely in the middle of being more than a despot, but a megalomaniac.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 1:48amISNT COMMUNISM GRAND?
if the ruler wants your to lop off your nose, you better get to it
and to think, people here actually think communism is harmless
Report Post »Lost Shaker Assault
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 2:26amThe Leader is always right. All one can hope for, is that children will see it too.
Report Post »KingDork
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 1:40amKim Jong Il still looks like some cheap muppet knock off cartoon character.
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 1:48amJust another petty fruitloop dictator, with Nukes.. Sleep well everybody.. I mean, how weird can he get with those nukes and stuff??
Report Post »Lost Shaker Assault
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 3:12amHe; Dear leader, is like a clumsy geek that I had to show arround our machine-shop back in the day.
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 1:39amHe had a few made to look just like him but it started a revolution.
Report Post »Liberal Media Dropped Ball On Nine-Eleven
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 1:36amThat means no more sex sideways! Damn you Kim Jong-ll !
Report Post »xoke
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 1:34amHmmm, I always thought Asian women were way pretty just like they are.
I have a hard time taking fashion tips from the likes of Kim Jong…seriously, he looks like the worst fashion ideas of the ‘70s and ’80s got together, got pregnant, miscarried, and out pops Kim’s fashion sense. lol
Report Post »islandlady
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 1:30amAll in the name of beauty when will it end? I believe they look beautiful like delicate glass dolls. I guess it all depends on the way you measure appreciation for the things you have. Some people are never satisfied.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 1:26amJust wondering if I am still allowed to post…….
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 4:59am…..testing…..testing…..does this thing work??
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 10:28amThe Thought Police are very active on this site. Yesterday, a post of mine was removed on a different string. Last night, I responded to 82DAIRBORNE’s post (above) in which I noted the removal of the post. That, too, has been taken down. The thought crime at issue? A quip referring to the human consumption of dog meat. Wow! Obviously something that must be stamped out! O.K., you PETA-philes, now you will have to remove this one, too, I suppose. What’s next, burning Bibles because of Acts 10:9-18? Are secular taboos so important to the Thought Police? Seems so. These sorts of PETA-philes are the same ilk that outlawed horse slaughter for human consumption in the U.S. That law has caused real suffering to horses, has injured American horse owners and has hurt our balance of trade with Europe, Japan & Korea.
Report Post »It is 10:30 Eastern Time on Monday — how quick will the Thought Police be now?