![]() But as the K-Pop star at the doctor’s office shows, surgery does not bring happiness or stability. Kyuri and Sujin hope plastic surgery will bring in much income at the “room salon” where Kyuri works and Sujin hopes to be employed after her surgery scars disappear. All five women grew up under modest circumstances and struggle to make ends meet in Seoul as adults. Wonna and her husband live on the first floor, also in a studio, and are a little older than the four friends. ![]() Kyuri, Miho, Sujin and Ara are all friends in their twenties living in an office-tel, or a building with studio apartments and office space. ![]() I would live your life so much better than you if I had your face. You have so much and you can do anything you want. Stop running around like a fool, I wanted to stay. I wanted to reach over and shake her by the shoulders. When the star is called back into an exam room, the two women lock eyes. The K-Pop star looks as if she’d been crying and pulls a cap down over her face when Kyuri peers over at her. ![]() ![]() At the beginning of Frances Cha’s debut novel, If I Had Your Face, a fierce social commentary about gender roles, class divisions and, yes, plastic surgery in South Korea, Kyuri is seated at her plastic surgeon’s office and spots the K-Pop star whose look she copied for her many surgeries. ![]()
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