Oprah Winfrey said “Korean Women have an obsession with plastic surgery”
I always heard that many Korean women, celebrities or not, have had plastic surgery before. Wondering if it is true. But Opray Winfrey’s statement about Korean women for sure angered lots of Korean women.
Chosun: Oprah Winfrey’s Negative Remarks about Korean Women Spark Storm
Edited: Think this is an 4-year-old news. Thanks Brian for the info!
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Just a heads up, the story is nearly 4 years old: http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2008/04/korean-americans-complained-about-oprah.html
Don’t think it caused much of a storm, except for among a few fringe elements.
Just because it didn’t cause a big storm, it’s a non issue? The problem with most people is that if it doesn’t offend them personally, they have a tendency to say,”get over it” after all it’s just a fringe minority that doesn’t have a voice in this country. The reason why the show was so offensive (and i’m one of the few if not only person that has watched the show in question) is not so much because of Oprah’s comments at the end of the segment, which were offensive to me as well, but more so because the whole show was about the CELEBRATION OF WOMEN around the world. Each country’s segment had a representative FROM that country, usually someone attractive, well off , and happy with their lives. I forget how many countries there were, but Korea was one of the last segments and when it came down to Korea, the tone of the show took a drastic turn as it became more of a documentary on plastic surgery. They had Lisa Ling,a Chinese-American,(who by all accounts is an excellent investigative journalist) interviewing korean women in the back alleys of korea. I watched it four years ago and i wrote an e-mail to the Oprah show voicing my displeasure and of course i never got a response back. The reason why there was no furor over this is because Koreans in this country do not have a voice. No polical clout and much like other minorities that don’t have voice, we will always be drowned out by the whites who say,”Get over it!” Can you imagine if this was something offensive to blacks? or whites? the whole country would be in an uproar.