article_snippet.sent: However, plastic surgery - particularly operations such as double eyelid surgery and rhinoplasty - are increasingly popular in China.
article_snippet.sent: Plastic surgery has become increasingly popular in China in recent years, with many women seeing it as an opportunity to enhance many women professional prospects.
article_snippet.sent: Last year Chinese women were reported to be entering South Korea in droves to seek plastic surgery because of the number of surgeons there and the popularity of South Korean celebrities.
article_snippet.sent: The practice was so widespread that some women were rendered almost unrecognisable and hospitals resorted to handing out plastic surgery certificates, which included some women name and passport number, so some women could re-enter China.
article_snippet.sent: Plastic surgery is a huge business in South Korea and the popularity in China only helps to increase the profile of surgeons.
article_snippet.sent: However the amount of money that can be made by the industry has led to a number of illegal clinics springing up in South Korea.
article_snippet.sent: Earlier this year a 50-year-old Chinese woman was declared brain dead after a 50-year-old Chinese woman visited a small clinic in Seoul, which had previously been warned about carrying out activities against China's health regulations.
article_snippet.sent: Operations to slim faces and increase the size of noses are common in China, while women also seek to have excess skin on women eyelids removed to make women eyes appear larger.
article_snippet.sent: China is renowned for China extreme cosmetic procedures.
article_snippet.sent: Last year a man reportedly had several procedures to look like Lei Feng, a Chinese soldier who became the face of communist party propaganda in the 1960s.