Let’s all face it, our appearance is important if to no one but ourselves. The same goes for me. I like looking nice when I go out and besides, you never know when you will meet that special someone. That’s why two years ago I wasn’t happy to find out I had a form of eczema.  

I finally did it. After 16 years of waiting, this 32-year-old English teacher decided it was time to do something about his teeth.     I wasn’t embarrassed about my teeth, but I always wanted to improve them. My teeth were crowded in the front where it is the most visible so I decided there were a lot of good reasons to go ahead and do something about it.

Korea has many, many beauty standards. This is evident in the number of aesthetic shops you will see in the alleys, and perhaps most clearly in the plastic surgeons that line up Apgujung and Chungdam, each specializing in a very, vast array of procedures. You can also catch a glimpse of them in the ads in the subway or the bus, from eyelash extensions, calf muscle reductions to fat implants undern ...

“Don’t worry sweety, when you are 22 then they will come…it happened to all of us, I promise.”   So eagerly I anticipated the magical year where B would become C. The year seemed longer than usual, but I went about my business believing in the unbelievable. I waited as if expecting the beans I’d tossed out the window to have sneak­ily sprouted into a magnifi ...

It’s fairly safe to say that the Brits have long been associated with bad teeth. Whilst this sweeping generalisation may be cruel and in many cases unwarranted, I must admit that I lived up to this stereotype. My teeth were not exactly horrendously deformed, but in spite of years of bleaching my teeth, using whitening toothpaste and wearing braces as a teenager, they were still a pale shade ...