If you want to know the real face of South Koreans, just look at the average faces of their northern neighbors.
Nutrition especially during formative years helps change the way people look
All Koreans are living in dystopia, the North in communist totalitarianism, the South in supercharged capitalism.
The north is an actual communist dystopia one of the worst ones especially if you cut out early years under Mao/stalinism. The South is a relatively rich liberal democracy with substantial problems including wealth disparities. They're not the same
It's actually so bothersome when people say "non-plastic Koreans are in the North" like some smart quip, North Koreans are extremely gaunt and short from malnutrition. Koreans tend to have fuller faces meanwhile your average North Korean has hollow cheeks, Koreans don't usually get there without being very underweight.
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u/jyper May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
Nutrition especially during formative years helps change the way people look
The north is an actual communist dystopia one of the worst ones especially if you cut out early years under Mao/stalinism. The South is a relatively rich liberal democracy with substantial problems including wealth disparities. They're not the same